How I cut a third off my carbon footprint in 6 months (it was actually fun!)
Guest blog by Emily Dunne original can be viewed here. This journey starts in October, when I joined the On Purpose Associate Programme, started at my first placement at King’s College London and took the WWF carbon footprint test for the first time. Horrified, I learnt that annually I was using 200% of my share of the world’s resources. That same month we were flooded with news of an upcoming climate catastrophe following the IPCC special report and changing jobs had left me with a new work-life balance, with both time and mental space to think about what it might be possible to change. So I set myself a challenge: Every month for the next year I am going to change one lifestyle factor to be more sustainable, and I’m going to try and maintain (or grow) the change for the rest of the year , in what will hopefully be an exponential curve towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Since then, I have made changes to how I get around, h...