How to Reduce Your Environmental Impact
Photo: Richard Rowe *
Native tree planting is a way to increase biodiversity while also offsetting some of the CO2 which we produce as part of our daily lives. It would be great if we could fix environmental problems like climate change by just planting lots of trees. However, while tree planting is a valuable part of dealing with climate change and other crucial environmental issues, it is only a part of the solution, and can never be the whole solution. This means that just planting trees is not enough.
Increasingly unpredictable and unstable weather
patterns, and the resulting damage from these – flooding, storm
damage, melting glaciers and rising sea levels and global temperatures
- will affect all of us. There is consensus within the scientific
community that the greenhouse gases which are emitted as part of
our daily lives contribute to this problem. This means that we
can reduce the impact of climate change by not just planting trees,
but also by changing our lifestyle, and in so doing reducing our
impact on the environment. Please read and download the four factsheets
below which tell you how you can significantly reduce your impact
on the environment through lifestyle and technological changes
that are relatively easy to enact.
An information sheet on reducing energy use as a smart consumer will be available in autumn 2008.
* Richard Rowe is author of Wildlife Traveller Scotland (Mainland and Islands) – two new travel guides covering 80 of Scotland’s finest wildlife destinations. Published by Pocket Mountains, the guides are available from all good bookshops and outdoor retailers.