How to Live a Low-Carbon Lifestyle?

What is a "Low-Carbon Lifestyle"?

As many businesses are increasingly going "green", the public is more and more aware of living an ecological lifestyle which is beneficial towards the environment. The key to such an ecological lifestyle lies exactly under the term "Low Carbon". "Low-Carbon Lifestyle" refers to a type of lifestyle that is based on low carbon power sources, thus having a minimal output of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. A low-carbon lifestyle reduces greenhouse gases and protects the environment by lowering the exposure to chemical pollutions. Therefore, such a low-carbon lifestyle is a healthy and sustianable lifestyle towards the development of human's life.

Five Ways to Lead to a "Low-Carbon Lifestyle"

• Reduce Shower Time

A good way to start living a low-carbon lifestyle is to reduce your everyday time of shower. Change from showering every twice a day to only once a day, and shorten the shower time from an hour to only half an hour. Also, avoid warming up the water for a long period of time because that will cause a great waste of energy. After you keep maintaining this habit of reducing your shower time for a period, you will find out that you're making a difference in your everyday life. It will help you save a lot of water, energy, and money as well. 

• Switch Off Your Lights

Remember to switch off the lights whenever you leave the room or you're not using it. Don't leave all the lights in the house on when you are only in one of the rooms. Besides, it is also important to turn off the switch of any computer, TV, gaming console, and charger when it is not in use. By doing so, you are both saving the energy and your electricity charges.

• Avoid Using Plastic Bags

It's time to replace the plastic bags with your recycle bags. Indeed, carrying plastic bags when we checkout at the store provides greatest convenience, but as plastic bags never breaks down, it actually contributes to worsen the environment. It has also posed a sever danger to birds and marine mammals that they often mistakenly eat them. Thus, in order to protect those wildlife as well as ourselves, stop using such dispoable plastic bags; instead, take out your recycle bags when you go to the supermarket.

• Circulate the Water Usage

In our households, water actually can be used in more than just one time for different purposes. For example, water used for rinsing the vegetables can be collected and reused for watering the flowers. Or, water used for washing the clothes can be stored and used for flushing the toilets. In fact, the government in some developed countries has spent lots of money to support the circulation of water usage by creating a huge water processing station underground in which water used by households on their daily basis will be cleaned and reused for purposes like cleaning the streets and irrigation.

• Let's Walk to Work/School!

One most important aspect of living a low-carbon lifestyle is to replace driving with walking. If you live pretty close to your school or where you work, how about walking or cycling to your school or workplace? It helps you not only to protect the environment by reducing the greenhouse gas emission but also to build up your body and keep fit. Or, if you cannot walk to where you work, you can take the public transportation or other alternatives instead of driving your vehicle. If you need to commute between two cities for work, you can also organize carpooling with your colleagues which is also a way of being low-carbon.