CRI-Q#1- What are the components of a low-carbon lifestyle?
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Q#1- What are the components of a low-carbon lifestyle?
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As a local Beijinger, I have lived in this city for 26 years, witnessed our living standard has had a perceptible improvement?more and more new models of cars driving on the ring roads, more and more skyscrapers raised… of course the big side effect is the environment has become worse and worse, you rarely see a blue sky. compared with other big cities such as Tokyo, New York,those coastal cities, Beijing is located in the center of the mainland, which means we have to pay more attention to Beijing’s environment. but the bad news is there are about 2000 cars being sold everyday in Beijing, the doomsday of Beijing will come soon…
Thanks for the reply Daniel - could you also explain to us Q#1- What are the COMPONENTS of a low-carbon lifestyle? What areas of your life, and activities (the COMPONENTS of your life) where you can live creating LESS CARBON?
Philip McMaster, World Sustainability Project, Beijing, China
some experts believe that the future low-carbon life is a high-quality, healthy and civilized way of life. Implementation of the ‘low-carbon’ lifestyle is by no means leads to lower quality of life, but asking people in their lives to reduce consumption of fossil fuels, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reducing environmental pollution, so as to achieve energy conservation, to protect the atmospheric carbon balance, optimization multiple goals of the ecological environment. Low-carbon lifestyle, reflecting man and nature, the harmony of contemporary and future, is a more civilized and better quality of life.
Paul Song, Chief Partner, Millennium Ark Capital Management Center
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The components of a low-carbon lifestyle? As my understanding, we try to reduce as less as possible carbon going out into the air in our daily life. What we can do to reduce the carbon coming out are:
* Save more electricity, we can use common tooth brush instead of auto one; If we don’t need the light in our living room, we can turn it off; We can keep the temperature of the air-conditioning at 25.5 degrees in summer; We can turn off the office lights during rest hours;
* Reduce carbon coming out to the air. We can go out by bike instead of driving a car
There are many methods in our daily to reduce carbon coming out to the air. This is my understanding of it.
Winnie Zhang, 3 Finger Sustainability, Shenzhen
A low-carbon lifestyle means a continuous concern for the impact of your behaviours on the external environment. Some components could be your personal consciousness, your individual behaviours, and your personal influence towards people around you.
Brian Ho, Director, China, CSR - ASIA
http://www.csr-asia.com
A low-carbon lifestyle means a continuous concern for the impact of your behaviours on the external environment. Some components could be your personal consciousness, your individual behaviours, and your personal influence towards people around you.
try to drive less and eat less meat. Try to take more bus and eat less meat as possiable as you can.
I decided to not eat meat everyday, maybe once or twice a week. I think I can achieve that.
Fabio Gao, Beijing, China
I’m not sure what the components are but this is what I do to try and achieve a low carbon lifestyle - I’m sure I could do much more and look forward to the results of this project!
I currently live a fairly low carbon lifestyle. I live on an island in the south china sea which has no cars. I buy mostly locally grown fruit, veg and eggs from the local market shop, carrying it home in my own bag. I walk pretty much everywhere I can, and if that’s not possible I take public transport - luckily Hong Kong has great public transport. At home we recycle what we can e.g cans, paper and plastic. Alas there is no bottle collector on the island. And I swap clothes and books with friends or hand them into charity. I own my own PR and marketing consultancy and most of my day involves engaging with stakeholders online, print is still important but I spend a lot of time online and producing digital communications. I also try to print on both sides of the paper. All of which must be contributing to reducing carbon. But I am keen to find out what else I can do.
Mandy Queen, Public Relations Professional, Hong Kong http://www.credcommunications.com
Low carbon life style means simple,less and healthy. Simple means you eat simple, live simple, wear simple. Less means you eat less, drive less, consumpt less, waste less. Healthy means you have vegetables more, walk more, exercise more.
Hu Tao, Programme Coordinator, China Climate Change Partnership Framework (CCPF)
One of my colleague comes to work by bike everyday.It takes about 40 minutes. That is the low-carbon lifestyle he choose.
I think the key components in a low-carbon lifestyle are:
Conciousness of the impact on the envrionment of human activities.
Try to reduce this kind of impact.
No matter what kind of actions you take to reduce the carbon footprint,just bear that in mind.
National Geographic Traveler China promotes this kind of actions, such as choosing bike to be the travel transportation. We made a special feature in our March issue: LOHAS and LOHAS Travel. We interviewed a lot of famous and ordinary people who lead a low carbon and lohas lifestyle. We also give our readers many choices on living lohas and traveling lohas. In this feature, our senior editor LU YI told us his bike travel story in East China which attracks many of our readers.
Everyone must take steps. Let’s stop talking and discussing,just do it.
National Geographic Traveler China
Beijing
http://www.ngtraveler.cn
My understanding of the components of a low-carbon lifestyle include:
-what you eat, and how it gets to you from the place of growth. Every week I get an organic box of mostly locally sourced food and I’ve cut out meat altogether.
-how you travel (I don’t have a car and in the UK rely on public transport, to slightly offset travelling around the world to deliver courses)
-what you buy (I’ve started to buy more and more from charity shops)
We can all do little changes which cumulatively make a big difference. What a great site this is!
“Low-carbon lifestyle (low-carbon life)”, refers to when a lifestyle to try to decrease the energy consumption, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
“Low-carbon” is a very widely covered by the concept of content, all the way can reduce carbon dioxide emissions can be collectively referred to as a low-carbon, including industrial production, energy-saving emission reduction of green building design, energy-efficient cars. The low-carbon lifestyle for us ordinary people, the key spoke is an attitude, rather than capacity; as a way of life, “low-carbon life” The first rise from abroad, it is understood in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are low-energy , low-cost, low-cost way of life.
In this way, low-carbon has enriched our everyday-called “Healthy Lifestyles” connotation; this “Healthy Lifestyle” is our practice for many years has been promoting the “LivCom” International Garden community / city race important criterion. LIVCOM International Garden City and the community competition is UNEP and the UNEP International IFPRA Parks Association, was launched in 1997, an international environmental events, by us — “Jia Cui (China) Environment and Development Promotion Center” responsible for the organization and in China, promotion, participate in the main body, including cities and communities, through the competition aims to foster competition on a global scale model of sustainable cities and communities, encouraging ecological, sustainable urban and community development, and low-carbon concept fit together well.
International Garden Community / City Competition at “improving natural and human landscape, culture and arts and heritage management, public participation and authorization, environmental protection, best practices, healthy lifestyles, strategic planning,” six would pay attention to the best mode of local environmental management . As of 2009, the world’s 17 countries, nine countries and 105 communities worldwide in 26 countries, more than 100 cities have received “LivCom” award, nearly 200 million inhabitants of the planet to share from the adoption of activities to low-carbon as the core healthy way of life.
Billy-Li Xiang , General Manager / Director, Jia Cui (China) Environment and Development Promotion Center, Shenzhen, China.
The so-called “low-carbon lifestyle (low-carbon life)”, refers to when a lifestyle to try to reduce the energy consumed, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions. A low-carbon life, for us ordinary people is an attitude, not ability; we should actively advocate and to practice low-carbon life, pay attention to energy-saving, fuel-efficient, solar terms, from the start bit by bit.
“ (low-carbon life)”, means that try to reduce the energy consumed in lifestyle, thereby reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
“Low-carbon” is a concept which covering broad content, all the way of reduce carbon dioxide emissions can be collectively referred to as a low-carbon, including energy-saving emission reduction on industrial production, green building design, energy-efficient cars. The low-carbon lifestyle for ordinary people, we mainly talk about is an attitude rather than ability; as a lifestyle, “low-carbon life”can be regard as in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which is a low-energy , low-consumption, low-cost lifestyle , and arise from abroad firstly.
Billy-Li Xiang , General Manager / Director, Jia Cui (China) Environment and Development Promotion Center, Shenzhen, China. http://www.livcom.org
I like to think that I live a low-carbon lifestyle by taking in consideration all aspects of daily life: shopping, food, transportation, energy and waste management. Little things like using shopping bags, or buying organic products and things with the least possible packaging all help.
Our work is a very important part of our lives and it should be included. If you are a web designer, always suggest -and use- a hosting company that is environmentally friendly (they DO exist!). What type of computer do you use? Greenpeace has a list about which brands are worse/not so bad for the environment. Are low-carbon practices encouraged in your office? Are they an issue when it comes to choose procedures? There are so many things you can implement at work.