Nice overview of what one can do to reduce their impact while not giving up any comfort.

I have been working towards using less and cleaner energy for years as well. We switched to a 100% green tarif as soon as those became available and have since switched a couple of times to utilities with cleaner records. The EV has been ordered.

My house was headed with heating oil, thus quite dirty. We have recently replaced that heater with a pellet burner for both heating and warm water. Since the pellets are created in Belgium using waste from wood, their carbon footprint is very tiny and it is of course very renewable. It’s also quite cheap. I would advise anyone looking into greener ways of heating to look at pellets as they do offer a very clean, cheap and practical solution to the problem.

So you could say that since our electricity is 100% green and the pellets are 100% renewable, that we currently only have our 56mpg (US) diesel that is being replaced by a ZOE in a couple of weeks, that our footprint is getting increasingly small.

And I have always been a vegetarian, and eat mostly vegan, all of it organic and some of it home grown. I try my best 🙂

I have to say that when I stopped eating cheese, I missed it quite a bit for about 2 months, but now I don’t miss it at all. It just takes some time to getting used to preparing your food differently. But since I have never tasted meat, I can’t say if that switch would be similar, but I must say I liked cheese quite a bit.
I have had friends coming over that where ‘very pleasantly surprised’ with what they where served 🙂