Individual Annual Offset

You’ve heard it before, but it’s still great advice. Manufacturing products produces an average 4-8 pounds of CO2 for every pound of manufactured product.

Follow tips to stop the flow of unwanted mail and wasted paper and shipping emissions.

Shipping burns fuel. A 5-pound package shipped by air across the country creates 20 pounds of CO2 (3 pounds if shipped by truck).

If you’re already a vegetarian, you save at least 3,000 pounds of CO2 per year compared to meat eaters. If you’re not a vegetarian, just increase the number of vegetarian meals you eat each week by one or two. Also, poultry is less greenhouse gas intensive than beef.

Mom was right. About one-quarter of all the food prepared annually in the U.S., for example, gets tossed, producing methane in landfills as well as carbon emissions from transporting wasted food.