Who hasn’t eaten or spent too much over the holidays and then wants to go on a money or food diet to save or reduce your weight through food selection changes, lower calories, or exercising more.
Living a more sustainable life is the same, get to know the brands already working to net zero now, your own carbon footprint, and the steps you can take to lower your carbon outputs towards a step down in your carbon goal.
The daily goal for each of us to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve our fitness and live healthier can easily be extended to the notion that walking 10,000 steps a day, rather than driving, improves our fitness and saves around 2 kg of carbon a day.
Our food lifestyle is easily modified to be less carbon intense through three key considerations. Firstly, the total energy content and composition, kJ or calories, of the food we consume. Secondly, the type of food you eat and your protein sources, with plant-based lifestyles less carbon impactful. Thirdly, the value chain (or circular economy habits) impacts associated with your food lifestyle. That is, locally sourced foods, food wastage, extent of composting, etc.
Balanced a moderated diets are shown to have positive health benefits, increasing your life expectancy and general wellbeing. A simple change to just reduce the quantities of beef, lamb, and dairy you consume, to the recommended levels of calories or kJ, could save you around 3 kg of carbon a day. Going further and rotating say 40% your energy intake more to plant-based food sources, could add further carbon savings of up 2 kg of carbon a day.
Stepping down your home electricity consumption can be achieved in so many ways, with no/low-cost examples of using dark mode on your smartphone or laptop to reduce recharge cycles, switching off used appliances and/or replacing older light globes to energy efficient bulbs steps down your home carbon footprint by around 1 kg of carbon a day.
Our shopping and spending lifestyles vary across the global. A rule of thumb to consider is that for every dollar or euro you save from not buying new goods saves around 1 kg of carbon. Considering the carbon impact of the brands you do buy and rotating your purchases to brands already demonstrating a purposeful climate transition to net zero could step down your carbon levels when you purchase goods.
Nearly 10,000 global brands are currently available on infini. Less than one-quarter of those, or less than 25%, score infini’s top marks to achieve emerald, green or sapphire. Rotating your new brand purchases to less carbon intense goods and services makes a smaller impact on your carbon footprint and your financial budget. Knowing which brands to buy is where infini empowers you with your carbon footprint plan.
Using the infini app provides you more specific measures of the carbon savings you can target. Reflect upon how you could adopt these simple suggestions, or others as impactful, that cumulatively could save you at least 8 kg of carbon a day.
Combine that with your fitness, eating or financial plans, and you have a daily carbon plan to step down your carbon footprint by at least 8 kg of carbon a day – Stepdown8 today.