Giving Compass' Take:

• According to the Center for Behavior and the Environment, the United States is responsible for 15 percent of global emissions. Here are seven ways that Americans can adopt lifestyle changes that will help curb greenhouse gas emissions.

• What are donors doing to play a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Are there opportunities for you to take part in any of the recommendations?

• Learn how renewable energy storage could cut emissions. 

If 10 percent of Americans adopted these 7 changes, we could cut total domestic emissions by 8 percent in 6 years.

At the end of 2019, lexicographers crowned “existential” as the Word of the Year. “Notable among searches was existential,” they wrote. “It captures a sense of grappling with the survival – literally and figuratively – of our planet, our loved ones, our ways of life.”

Anyway, that was a long path to the good stuff: The high-impact things we can do as individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So without further ado, what we can do – with comments quoted directly from the report:

  1. Purchase an electric vehicle
  2. Reduce air travel
  3. Eat a plant-rich diet
  4. Offset carbon
  5. Reduce food waste
  6. Tend carbon-sequestering soil
  7. Purchase green energy

Read the full article about reducing greenhouse gas emissions by Melissa Breyer at TreeHugger.