What small steps can we all take to reduce greenhouse gas emission?

Question

What can we push for our local governments to do?

Is there a web site that allows you to calculate how much impact certain lifestyle changes would make?

Answer 1

I think we need to demand that U.S. automakers give us hybrid cars and push for total electric and/or hydrogen cars.

The amount of green house gases created by automobiles in the U.S. is staggering.

Things you can do now, drive less, conserve electricity, turn your thermostat down.

One interesting thing, don't recycle paper. It takes more fossil fuels to recycle paper items than it does to produce them.
We can always grow more trees but we can't regrow a new atmosphere.

Answer 2

Eat less beans ! Seriously, anything you do to use less electricity or fuel will help. Figure out how much you use of each yourself and try as a goal to reduce it by 20% first. No sense in going beyond that until you achieve it. When you do succeed, try another 20%. Don't get to paranoid over this issue, like everything else, there is a political motivation behind alot of it. Using less energy is in your control, do not let the Government decide for you on what is best for you.

Answer 3

Never, EVER get the government involved in anything. They'll charge you $50 for a $1 fix-up job.

Now that I've had that as a say, look up FootPrint Calculator. You'll find a lot of them. I would caution, though, that many of them give different you a different footprint size despite giving them the same answer, and others aren't detailed enough in the answers they allow you to choose (for instance, I eat organic from my backyard garden AND eat free-range meat...I wasn't given that as an option).

Answer 4

We have 300 million in this country. Small steps are use public transportation, conserve energy, Quite printing duplicate government forms in Spanish, it will save millions of trees. Burn cleaner fuels. These are but a small sampling of what you can do.

Answer 5

Cut down on all the political posturing in Washington. The carbon dioxide emissions there are greater than any third world country!

Answer 6

HEMP---Flat out is a better fuel---clean burning converts to coal or oil even gasoline.Ten tons per acre per year.If 6% of Americas farmland were farmed in HEMP our electricity demand would be solved.HEMPDid Bush say a goofy when saying addiction to oil?Please excuse me I want to eat some vomit

Answer 7

We dont need small steps, we need big steps and a lot of them or a bycicle!