Material Lifestyle Behaviour Changes

Fly Less Often
The internet, intranet, e-Learning, e-Research Techniques enable Stake Holders for major corporate and inter-government meetings and conventions to sit at their PC in their own office, view meeting agenda items and contribute more meaningfully than the old fashioned way of flying to the same meeting point to shake hands, greet, smile and distribute their business cards.  Web cameras enable you to eyeball the people that you are talking to.

Take an Australian holiday
Millions of people visit Australia every year for their holiday. If you must fly, cut down the flight time by doing the same as millions of foreigners do, and get to know the best country in the world better?  You will be helping our economy, our climate and your wallet.

Write to your elected representatives in all three tiers of government that clean air and abating Climate Change are important to you.  Urge them to support actions to –

(i)         accurately quantify Australia’s Carbon Footprint;

(ii)        agree targets to reduce them;

(iii)       save energy; and

(iv)       expand the use of renewable energy even at a materially higher price per unit.

Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of total annual global warming emissions, making it second only to fossil fuels in terms of climate impact. Forests play a major role in regulating global temperatures by absorbing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in their cell walls. Earth loses more than 18 million acres of forestland every year—an area larger than Ireland—according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The best way to reduce emissions from tropical deforestation is to help ensure these trees are not cut down in the first place. Your purchasing decisions can play a role in this effort: