50 Ways to Make Your Home Eco-Friendly

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� The wedding gowns and attires are usually worn only once. Consider renting or
borrowing the wedding gowns and attire.
� Buy a certified “conflict-free” diamond where the revenues don’t go towards supporting
conflict and war. See Conflict Free Diamonds.orgfor retailers who sell these.
� Choose a venue manager who understands the green wedding mission, and embraces
green practices from lighting to waste recycling.
� Instead of Wedding gifts, ask for all guests to make a donation to a cause or charity of
your choice.
� Flowers use a lot of pesticides. Consider using organically grown flowers or from farmers
you know have used less chemicals.
� Consider using paper decorations which can be recycled.
� Be mindful of food wastage. Use local and organic ingredients to make the food.
� Consider more vegetarian meal options, as meat has a heavier environmental footprint.
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43.Cut down on Air Travel
Air travel presently accounts for 2% of the global annual carbon emissions and this
share is increasing. There are more people travelling by air because of increasing
disposable income and affordability, a globalised workforce and increase in the number
of routes and competition among airlines. But all of this comes with a cost – a cost to
the environment.
Apart from carbon emissions, planes leave contrails or vapour trails at the upper layers
of the atmosphere. This adds up to the greenhouse effect, by not allowing the sun’s heat
to escape.
These are the ways by which can reduce our carbon emissions from air travel :
� Reduce the number of holidays that you take each year entailing air travel.
� Take holidays closer to home, so you can travel by train or bus or ferry. According to
a study commissioned by Eurostar, taking a train from London to Paris actually cuts
carbon emissions by 90%.
� Choose airlines which have a good track record of arriving and departing on time.
According to Air Transport World, “If we could save a minute on every flight each
year, we would save $3.6 billion on total operating costs, including $700 million on
fuel, and 4.2 million tons of CO2 emissions, not to mention other pollutants and
greenhouse gases.”
� If you’re an employer, cut down on air travel for staff by encouraging them
toteleconference. According to WWF if all European companies replaced 20% of
their business flights with video conferencing, it would save 22 million tons of CO2
every year.
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