Want to take the minimum pledge?
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Trusted Clothes (Unpublished)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2016
I have an idea about a minimum pledge not to do with a pledge for minimum wage. Not to do with a minimum pledge for fundraising, rather, it’s a minimum pledge for change in lifestyle. This could mean changing light bulbs. Using less water through laundry, or in dishes. So, a minimum pledge for making small change to sustainability in personal life.
Professionally can be included to because aspects of professional like include a work environment that doesn’t necessarily promote sustainability. So, do you want to take the pledge? Sustainable living is an attempt, albeit an optimistic one, to limit the carbon footprint of an individual, which includes yourself or myself.
There’s lots of ways to do it. You can look at your means of transportation. It doesn’t have to be absolute. You could use a car some of the time. You could use the bus at other times. You could bike some of the time or walk at other times. Also, you can look at your own energy consumption with electricity or gasoline. You can look at the diet that you have.
For instance, some diets have a larger carbon footprint than others. Much of the carbon output comes from the home. Another major kind is meat consumption particularly beef. I don’t recommend this trend of living off the grid. It seems pretty involved and probably ill-advised to me, but if that’s your thing then okay.
You can look at having solar panels on your roof. It’s becoming much more feasible as a form of energy in terms of its cost especially. You could look at hybrid cars or electric cars. There are more charging stations and grids for electrics cars being put up internationally and more companies and cars being put up that work with those electric means of transportation.
You can look at newer cars with more efficient engines because the design, the chassis and the engine, might be lighter in weight than older cars. And a minimum pledge would simply imply that we use just one of these means. Or others that aren’t listed. So, want to take the pledge?
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