10:10 arrives in NZ
10:10 means producing 10% lower emissions each year (starting 2010).
Their suggestions for reducing your own emissions:
- fly less/take local holidays
- turn down thermostats, insulate house (they obviously don’t rent our house)
- swap in compact fluorescent for incandescent bulbs
- walk and bus instead of driving
- eat in-season fruit & veges and have one no-meat/no-dairy day a week
- buy less, buy second hand, buy durable/repairable
- don’t buy packaging-heavy stuff, recycle, compost
- don’t waste food
- or water (shower rather than bath), careful about lawn/garden watering, fill your washing machine up
- feel happier (smugger?) because “It’s Dec 2010… you’re healthier for walking & cycling, you’ve made new friends from swapping stuff & car-pooling, you’ve saved a big chunk of cash… and you know that you’re part of the global e ffort to prevent castastrophic climate change…”
I wrote about 10:10 a wee while ago.
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You reckon this will do it?I mean these seem quite non extreme measures for what looks like impending doom. I do all that stuff apart from the insulation (ditto about them not renting our house, with its ridiculous high ceilings, innefective fireplaces and draughty wooden door and window frames) and I always feel like their should be more I can do. But, um, like what??
To boringly quote myself: “Although individual consumption choices dictate only a small percentage of total emissions (as Alex Steffen says “the parts of our lives that actually fall within our direct control are the tips of systemic icebergs”), the campaign has the potential to build a movement that would show politicians and industry (who can actually make the necessary reductions), as well as the public itself, that there is widespread support for real change.”