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Food
Grow your own fruit and vegHelp

Did you know: Growing your own fruit and vegetables reduces all the energy and waste which normally goes into getting food from the field to your plate - such as transport, refrigeration and packaging. And you can monitor the amount and type of fertiliser and nutrients used to grow your food.
Travel
Take surface transport rather than flyingHelp

Did you know: Aviation has the fastest growing carbon emissions of any industry sector. Before booking a flight consider whether there is a viable alternative - such as a coach, train or ferry - or even take holidays closer to home. Cutting down on one long-haul flight a year could reduce your transport footprint by 24%. It is now becoming clearer that flying has an even greater impact on climate change than previously thought as it is likely that emissions of greenhouse gases at high altitudes have between 2 and 4 times more impact on climate change than at ground level
Home
Draughtproof the houseHelp

Draughtproofing the house is the easiest and cheapest to improve your house's energy efficiency. If everyone in the UK draught proofed their homes, we'd save around £114m.
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Avoid synthetic/man-made weedkillersHelp

Make your garden a herbicide-free zone to encourage wildlife to flourish. Fertilisers can also be very energy intensive in their manufacture

Travel
Lobby local authority to improve transport links
Travel
Reduce your flying as much as possible. When you must fly use a Gold Standard offset scheme.Help

Many companies are now offering to "offset" emissions from activities such as flying - this means that they promise to invest your money in reducing emissions in other countries. However, it is vitally important that we in the UK reduce our own emissions - and offsetting should not be used as an excuse for people or companies in the UK to continue high-carbon or polluting activities that could easily be avoided. Another concern is that there are no clear rules to guarantee that offset providers are selling genuine emission reductions. WWF recommends that if you do use an offsetting scheme, make sure it is certified to the Gold Standard, an independent scheme set up to make sure that emission reduction projects are truly sustainable. Some offset providers that offer Gold Standard schemes include Myclimate, Atmosfair and Climate Friendly.
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Take out an ethical mortgage
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Buy organic clothesHelp

Did you know: Organic and other forms of low-input agriculture that use minimal or no pesticides and fertilisers - which are energy intensive in their manufacture - consume up to 40% less energy, and support higher levels of wildlife on farms.

After all this, Gibber will have a footprint of 1.50 planets, and a carbon footprint of 5.81 tonnes per annum

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