Don't Need Much Money is exactly what it sounds like: a site about needing less, so you have more. More time. More freedom. More room to actually live. The idea is simple. The less money you need to survive, the more time you have to thrive. Lower your living costs, live a healthy lifestyle focused on longevity and mobility, stay out of debt, and build a little savings, and you buy yourself something far more valuable than money: time. Time to do what you actually love, spend with people you care about, and put toward things that matter. This site is my own real life running that experiment. Most of what you'll find here are recipes and day-to-day habits. They aren't filler posts, it's intentional. Cooking from scratch, buying smart, wasting less, eating well, and staying healhty, fit, and limber all without spending much are some of the most direct ways I practice this philosophy day to day. This blog doubles as my own recipe box and exercise notes, and I share it b...
It can be overwhelming to think about how to change our global way of living to reduce carbon emissions enough to combat global warming. It's hard to fathom that individual choices and habits will make a difference and it is too "convenient" to just wait for solutions and change to come rather than be the solution and source of change. And even if you are motivated to change, it's difficult to know where to start and which solutions will have the most impact.
There is an organization called Project Drawdown which has done the work to evaluate over 90 solutions and rank them according to their impact. This is found in their Table of Solutions. The solutions can be sorted between Scenario 1 which is roughly in line with 2˚C temperature rise by 2100 (1,051 gigaton CO2 reduction) and Scenario 2 is roughly in-line with 1.5˚C temperature rise at century’s end (1,637 gigaton CO2 reduction) . Here is a table of the Top 10 solutions based on Scenario 2.
Second, initiatives that get all the attention and press like electric vehicles will barely have an impact. Yes, clean energy generation like wind turbines and solar are key to CO2 reduction. But EVs are #41 on the list. There are so many other initiatives that we should be focusing on as a world than EVs yet this one gets all the media attention. Maybe initiatives like regenerative farming, land management, refrigerant solutions, insulation, LED lighting, public transportation/carpooling, and recycling are a little too boring for the media. But these all will have a higher impact than EVs. EVs are a 0.5%-1% solution based on Project Drawdown's assumption of 20-33% EV adoption.
Review Project Drawdown's list of solutions along with the underlying assumptions of the ones you're curious about. It'll become more clear that achieving "drawdown" where we sequester more carbon than we produce is totally achievable and within the power of each individual. It will also help humanity truly prioritize the initiatives to focus on. We don't have a lot of time and we need to focus our limited energy and resources on what will actually make a difference.
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