Waging the green battle

It’s the little paper straw against the world. Do our little switches really add up to big differences for the planet?

- Rachel Lopez 

By all means, skip the Uber and bicycle to work instead. Switch to a bamboo toothbrush. Stop using plastic straws, or packaged drinks. But don’t be too hard on yourself if you can’t always do it all. 

Singer Taylor Swift’s private jet (used by her, and loaned out to other celebrities) flew 170 times between January and July last year, producing carbon emissions worth 8,293.54 tonnes, roughly 1,184.8 times more than the average person would produce in a year.

Take your cloth tote with you on shopping trips. Save tailoring scraps to make more totes. Befriend the tailor so that you can repair, repurpose and get years more use from each garment. Fabric manufacture, fast fashion, and mass manufacture are terribly hard on the environment.