Dob took the emissions test for our family and we generally do ok since neither of us has a commute and when I do travel in Scotland, I can almost always go via train.
My favourite of our initiatives have been the cloth nappies and the organic cotton. I have picked up some favourite new brands and shops through our e-clothing only mission: howies.co.uk, adili.com, Kuyichi, Green People, cut4cloth.co.uk, totsbots.com - I love you. Disasters have been e-cleaning (more like spreading around the dirt...). While we have abandoned home made cleaning products, we still use all of the Bio and Ecover products, and thanks to EZ for introducing us to Method - love it.
What kills us on the emissions test are our international flights. Including our flights for work and holidays, we would need 2.5 planet Earths to sustain our population living as Glen and I do. So we are already behind when trying to plan an e-friendly summer holiday that requires flights to Italy. How can we dig our way out of the hole (especially since I bought non organic 2010 cotton when in Vancouver!):
- Our flights are as direct as possible to minimise take-off and landings
- We are travelling to the airport by foot and train
- Once in Italy, we are going by train and bus (we will need to take one taxi ride to our beach campsite since they have no public transport)
- We are going to drink the tap water (supposedly all safe although not super tasty(?)) and if needed, will go to glass bottled water
- We will not buy heaps since we are backpacking, but souvenirs will be local and e-friendly
I only thought of it now, but we should have checked out our hotels for e-friendliness. There are sites that rate hotels and special "green stamps" they can go for to prove their efforts, b&bs included.
We leave thursday. Let's hope for dry weather in the Bridge as we hoof it to the train station.
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