Here are the steps in our journey over the past five years:

• Subscribed to solar power for 100% of my electricity
• Drive an electric car when I have to, but bike exclusively within a two mile radius
• Bought a laundry line and line dry clothes
• Eat a mostly whole food, plant-based diet with lots of legumes to maximize my health and wealth while cutting my climate impact
• Slashed my single use plastics consumption as well as durable to reduce microplastics breathed and consumed
• Visit a library once a week
• Grow simple plants (green onions, basil)
• Keep air conditioning to a minimum (live in Florida)
• Buy used/refurbished preferentially
• Pesticide-free outdoors to encourage native insect predators and now my backyard is filled with butterflies
• Recycle maximally following all guidelines and produce less than 1/10th the waste stream of my neighbors for a family of four with two pets
• Replaced older, less efficient air conditioning with newer, high efficiency

I’m proud of what we’ve achieved, but there’s still more to do. In the next five years we will:

• Replace our other, less driven ICE vehicle with an electric
• Transition to full pesca-vegetarianism
• Install balcony solar as hopefully it will become legal (or I will smuggle a system in from Utah or Vermont)
• Plant fruit/shade trees
• Paint our home a lighter, high albedo color
• Blow in additional insulation in the attic
• Install a home car charger
• Replace the last of our plastic clothing with natural fibers

2 tonnes CO2eq/person without carbon offsets for everything but travel is our end goal.