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Imagine a world wherein people are conscious of their actions. A world where we know the impact of our choices and choose accordingly. Where everyone cares for our planet.
That is the Earth I plan to leave behind for my children and his children and for generations to come.

We have a choice. Everyone of us can contribute it in our own special ways in reducing the carbon footprint we are leaving behind. Here’s a compilation of how, small choices you make and little alterations to lifestyle you adopt, can have significant impact on our planet !!!

Green Travel:

• Try using public transport wherever possible. Factor in some extra time to enable this.
• Invest in video conferencing. Besides avoiding transport, you shall also be saving on travel time, which shall increase productivity!
• Maintain proper air tyre pressure and overall maintain your vehicle.

Green Consumption:

• Use reusable glass bottles for milk instead of plastic cartons.
• Seek out products which can be recycled, sold or donated when you are finished using it.
• Before you buy, look at whether products have an environmental energy rating or water rating label.
• Can you make it policy to buy products that have Energy Star features or a ’sleep’ mode for when they are not being used?

Conserve Water:

• Stop water leakages.
• If you place a ’save-a-flush’ in your cistern, you could save 10 liters of water – the same amount as a citizen the developing world uses in one day.
• Fit all taps with efficiency devices e.g. Tap Magic reduces water wastage by up to 70% but also enables you to have the normal full flow.
• Avoid doing activities with running water. For e.g. fill up your basin and then shave instead of using running water.
• Instead of washing each vessel individual, collect them and wash @ one go.
• You can save enough water to fill an Olympic swimming pool (2.5 million liters) after one year of replacing 10 traditional urinals with waterless alternatives.

Save Energy:

• You could save 1kg of C02 in one week if 12 people bought affordable solar chargers and used them to charge their mobiles, digital cameras and portable CD/MP3 players.
• Think about the profile of your fleet: diesel, hybrid, electric. What about replacing a couple of your fleet cars with electric city cars. The ‘G-Wiz’ is cheap to buy, cheap to run and carbon neutral for up to 16,000 miles. Three ‘G-Wiz’ cars used for business travel could save 10 tones of CO2.
• Next time you’re away from your desk for a considerable length of time, switch off your computer screen. If 20 people followed suit, you could save 1kg of CO2 in one hour.
• Using an energy saving light bulb over four days instead of a standard 100w bulb will also save the same amount. Use application like Local Cooling software and install it on your computer to save electricity.
• Replace CRT monitors with LCD ones and save energy and money too !

Reduce Waste:

• Don’t throw away thing. Either donate or recycle.
• If its computers, donate it to charity organizations.
• Encourage suppliers and contractors to take back waste for re-use and recycling.
• Wood flooring is durable and attractive and saves CO2 compared to carpet and vinyl.

There are many more ways in which you could reduce your carbon footprint.
The moment you understand that the choice is yours, opportunities and path to reduce your footprint shall come before you. Just select them.

However, the most important thing that you could do right now is forward this URL to as many people as possible and educate them. We at PHI Creative Solutions Pvt. Ltd. are dedicated in reducing our carbon footprint – both as an organization and as individuals. If there’s any help that we can do, just drop us a line @ india@phicreativity.com

This article is inspired by An Inconvenient Truth, an in-depth discussion with my friend from UK – Stephanie Beitzel and from various sources on the internet !!!

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