The Climate Diet

As much as one may despise the word diet, consider reading The Climate Diet: 50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint by Paul Greenburg. This book offers a series of simple and concise tips that help you reduce your Carbon Footprint. These days, individual impact is difficult to appreciate in a growing culture of instant delivery and gratification.

Take a closer look at clothing. It’s easy to minimize the impact one new cotton t-shirt has on our world, but when putting it in terms of the number of gallons of water required to produce that basic t-shirt, 713 gallons to be exact, its easier to quantify the cost on our environment. Did you know it takes 2.5 years for someone to drink 713 gallons of water?

As an en ever-evolving society, our declining environment is in dire need for us to change our habits at a quicker pace than years past. Greenburg’s concise and practical steps for individual impact empowers us to shift from helplessness to stepping into action for the good of our planet.

Find a copy at South Park’s The Book Catapult

Move to the City! Ride your Bike!

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transport. It is where the rich walk and where they use bikes". - Meik Wiking, Author of The Little Book of Hygge

If we’re going to elevate happiness in San Diego, the experts suggest we start with bikes! The happiest cities in the world support a culture of cyclists. Create new habits by biking to work, to the market, to run errands or even to get a haircut. Channel your inner child and find that simple joy of movement and balance again.

Locally, organizations like BikeSD and SD Bike Coalition are advocating to make a more bikeable city. It’s great to see the continued push for more bicycle paths and road safety in San Diego. Cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam have paved the way when it comes to promoting bike friendly culture. They’ve proven that a healthy bike lifestyle is good for the individual and community too!