I want to save the environment, but I don't know how my household can become truly carbon neutral without donating thousands a year to companies like Wren. All suggestions welcome! Thanks!
Plant a tree. Or a plant.
Trees/plants store/use carbon.
Take in CO2, give off O2, the C has to go somewhere right? Paying to be "carbon neutral" in a largely carbon based life form is straight to plaid.
Edited: the 0' to O's.
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Exactly. I worked this out a few years ago and I’m carbon negative. I purchased and protected a 6 acre plot of forest 20 years ago for a song and now I have another 4 acre piece. I heat with a heat pump and all my electricity comes from renewables. My vehicle is still gasoline powered but I rarely drive. Most of my carbon comes from my food.
Planting trees doesn't help nearly as much as saving an old growth tree that is part of a forest ecosystem and storing carbon underground. And how far do you need to drive to plant that tree? Where did the plant nursery get that seedling? Was there temp control in the greenhouse?
Individual accountability for carbon footprint is a nonsense game. I'm not saying 'don't plant trees', just look at more systemic issues and maybe just reconsider future purchases and put your next phone upgrade off until the thing actually breaks.
I'm rural, I can plant a tree within 50 feet of myself, almost at any given time.
It's almost like nature was intended to thrive without human interference... you don't have to control everything so perfectly for nature to win.
There's also way better ways to go about doing a lot of the things we do today, differently, more sustainable and all that good fun stuff.