How green are you?

I’ve learnt about environmentally friendly practices mostly from documentaries and the internet. Since quite some months ago I’ve been organizing and separating most all of the recyclables from the waste that I produce to put them on the recyclable closet available on my building.

 Neither I nor anyone from my family own a car. I do own a bike which I love to ride anywhere I can, though it’s been trapped at the mechanic since the beginning of the pandemic, sadly. And when it come to walking, I’m the best for taking long trips on foot.

When it comes to joining or supporting eco-organizations I just haven’t got the opportunity to do so yet. One the other hand, one of the most important things that I’ve done is changing my dietary habits. It’s been almost a year now since I’m a vegetarian, and just by doing this my carbon footprint is considerably lower than it was when I consumed meat products. Just imagine that to produce a single burger of 0,1 [kg], 2000 [lts] of water are consumed and the equivalent of 9 [kg] of CO₂ are emitted as greenhouse gases. Just incomparable amounts against the average 2 [kg] of CO₂ per kilogram of any vegetable.

Finally, from my perspective, I’d promote more broadly and thoroughly the use of public or not motorized transportation for things that don’t really require this kind of overuse of resources