Stuff
How To Reduce Our “Stuff” and Its Impact on Climate Change
There are no two ways about it. Those of us in many, many countries have just created, manufactured, transported, housed, sold, and bought too much stuff. This has created stronger inequalities within those countries and across the world, and greatly damaged our planet. It’s time to reduce our noncritical ‘stuff’, to think long-term in designing the processing and transport of critical equipment, and to help create a different world.
Climate Steps: Stuff
Maintain your refrigerator and AC
Use a sharing library (tools, toys, etc.)
Stop receiving junk mail
“Libraries of Things are rolling together all the things people only infrequently need and bringing them together in one place, so they have something for everyone. Pay one membership or subscription fee, and you can borrow everything from camping gear to a popcorn maker.”
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About Climate Change and Stuff
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But a nitty gritty study in 2020 found that the creation of every new product resulted in greenhouse gas emissions totaling 6 times the product’s weight!
Articles About Personal Belongings
Tiny Houses Fight Global Warming
Tiny houses have been around for as long as humans have sought shelter, but lately they are becoming a more popular choice in housing internationally, offering alternatives for people who want their own house but, for a variety of reasons, don’t want a traditional, single-family home.
The Three Submarine Engineers – Chapter 3
Now and Next This is the last chapter in the story of three sharp engineers, who decided to make a difference – and write childrens' books. Read the first two episodes if you haven’t yet: …Chapter 1: the story of why [link] and Chapter 2: the how’s of planning...
The Plastic Podcast
Wind up Plastic-Free July by spending some time with us learning what is plastic, its impacts - good and bad - including on climate change, and how to fight plastic pollution throughout the year. Dr. Annette Olson, Founder of Climate Steps and the Lead for Green...
Plastic-Free July Starts Tomorrow
Hey again. There's a campaign that's been growing yearly, which started in Australia, to make July Plastic-Free. https://www.plasticfreejuly.org. If you are wondering about how plastic relates to climate change, it significantly causes it: Plastic comes from natural...
Recirculating Stuff
After we ourselves “Reuse” something, but before we “Recycle” it, there is a concept we really need to become aware of and do: we need to “Recirculate.” In other words….
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Climate Steps for the Extreme Beginner
How would I even start doing something about those things? I think I’ll crawl under the covers and hope someone else figures this stuff out. … But wait!….