According to the Associated Press:

“If all Americans between 10 and 74 walked just half an hour a day instead of driving, they would cut the annual U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, by 64 million tons. That would save about 6.5 billion gallons of gasoline …and Americans would also shed more than 3 billion pounds (flesh) overall, according to these calculations.”

More plastic = less greenhouse gas

Lord Stern pointed out that if we all changed to a vegetarian diet, it would make a major contribution to slow global warming since:

• more energy is used to produce meat and

• methane from animals is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide

Here are a 2 other less-obvious things we can do:

• Make more things out of wood - this locks up the carbon for a period - as long as we recycle and don't burn the wood afterwards.

• Make more durable things from plastic. (yes plastic!) - again this locks up the carbon in the fossil fuel instead of burning it.