As someone living in the developed world using modern equipment and transport one can say that I do not score well when it comes to my carbon footprint. I do care though. I particularly hate the complete unneccessary use of resources. Some examples include:

• Using bottled water when living in a country with high quality tab water.
• Excess packaging, which, unfortunately is still all around us.
• Shipping around huge quantities of dead trees for no reason at all
• Huge quantities of crappy disposable products

Therefore, we are as of now permanently on the following diet:

• No more bottled water. Convenience or a better taste are poor excuses.
• No more printing at work. This was delightfully easy. I just decided to stop printing two months ago. No excuses. No cutting down or printing double-sided. Just stop already.
• No more paper ads. In the Netherlands, you can indicate to not want to receive paper ads and local magazines by marking your mail box as such. This reduces incoming mail by 80 to 90%.
• I'm going to stop buying paper books or at the very least make it an exceptional event.
• All paper that we still consume is seperated and recycled. We were already doing this. 

All of the above was surprisingly easy to implement. There was no need for a period of adjustment, it in fact even simplified our lives. This goes to prove that the usage of these resources was unneccessary to begin with.

I can imagine people objecting to big lifestyle changes for the sake of their carbon footprint, but why don't we start eliminating the complete unneeded usage of resources?

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