One of the articles on World Economic forum on the reducing the carbon footprint triggered a thought.
There are organizations who are thinking about reducing our carbon footprint on earth. As an individual, what can I do to help?
- All of us have the habit of creating multiple email ids over a period of time. If we stop using any email id, download / forward select emails to another current email id and drop the account. It does save a LOT of space.
- For email accounts we use, consciously spend an hour and DELETE all unread email – especially ones that have been unread for more than a year – trust me, you and I will never have the time to go and open those email notifications or sale details from macys, kohls or other stores. If there was an automatic delete by google / yahoo to detect all store / retail promotional emails and auto delete after a year utmost, it does save LOT of space.
- We are not born photographers, we never get our first picture perfectly right! We end up taking multiple shots and all of them get stored. Sitting and sorting through photographs is a HUGE time consuming activity and no one EVER seems to get time to sit and take a look at all the pictures at leisure (if at all once or twice for any photo album creation or a get together max).
If world wide organizations can collect data, process information, pay people to do the research and share such findings that folks living in a country can potentially reduce one thank you email, we can look at ourselves and put in a 10-15 minutes of effort to reducing our carbon footprint in whatever way we can.
What are your ideas to reduce our carbon footprint on earth? What would you do?
