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Scribe Publications
A Lighter Footprint
Angela Crocombe is the Melbourne-based author of
A Lighter Footprint:
A Practical Guide to Minimising Your Impact on the Planet
(Scribe, 2007) and
Ethical Eating
(Penguin, 2008). She is passionate about living sustainably and
helping others to make more sustainable choices in their own lives. Angela has
also written thirteen educational books for primary school students. Her books
Climate Change
and
Water Supply
were shortlisted for The Wilderness Society’s
Environmental Awards for Children’s Literature in 2009. Her website is
www.lighterfootprint.com.au.
a practical guide
your
impact
on the
planet
to
minimising
AngelA
CroCombe
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
PO Box 523
Carlton North, Victoria, Australia, 3054
Email: info@scribepub.com.au
First published by Scribe 2007
This revised edition published 2011
Copyright © 2007, 2011 by Angela Crocombe
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under
copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may
be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval
system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means
(electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise) without the prior written permission of
the publisher of this book.
This book is carbon neutral
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of
the federal Department of the Environment and Water
Resources, and Sustainability Victoria for permission to
reproduce information available on their websites. For
more information see:
www.environment.gov.au
www.climatechange.gov.au
www.sustainability.vic.gov.au
Book design by Design by Committee
Printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press
National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication data
Crocombe, Angela, 1971- .
A lighter footprint.
9781921753558 (e-book)
Rev. ed.
1. Climatic changes - Australia. 2. Australia -
Environmental conditions. I. Title.
551.60994
www.scribepublications.com.au
Preface
1
Introduction
13
Why me?
14
Why you?
16
What are
greenhouse gases?
16
Kyoto and other
hot air
18
The future
18
This book
19
A lighter footprint
20
An Ecological
Footprint Quiz
5
Water
68
Average
water usage
68
Embodied water
69
Water footprint
69
Be water wise
71
In the bathroom
74
In the kitchen
76
In the laundry
77
Outdoors
81
Re-using greywater
82
Installing
water-saving systems
105
The Slow Food
movement
106
Become a
vegetarian
107
Better yet,
go vegan
7
recycling
112
Refuse, reduce,
re-use, recycle
112
Kerbside recycling
113
What can be
recycled kerbside?
116
Where does my
recycling go?
116
Compost
119
Litter
120
Plastic bags
121
Mobile phones
121
Cork
122
Polystyrene
123
Computers
123
Printer cartridges
124
Home
entertainment
124
White goods
125
Cars
126
Chemicals, gases,
paint tins and car
batteries
126
Cooking oil
126
Other household
items
2
Carbon offset
Schemes
24
Common offsetting
methods
26
Different
calculations
26
Companies offering
carbon offsets
27
Offsetting is only
part of the picture
6
Food
88
Food miles
88
Ghost acres
89
Buy locally and
seasonally
90
Farmers’ markets
90
Water filters
92
Organic and
biodynamic produce
94
Grow your own
94
Free-range eggs
96
Cruelty-free meat
and poultry
98
Finding organic
meats
98
Kangaroo meat
99
Dairy products
99
Seafood
101
Processed food
101
Artificial
colourings and
preservatives
102
Fairtrade products
103
Genetically
modified food
104
Eating out
3
Transport
31
Cars
37
Public transport
39
Walk or bicycle
40
Air travel
4
energy
45
Electricity
48
Gas
49
Renewable energy
53
What about nuclear?
54
Lighting
57
Heating
63
Cooling
8
Appliances
and Household
goods
130
The energy
rating label
131
Choice
magazine

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