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If you live in the United States, you likely fall into the top 10% of global consumers. Are you actively reducing your greenhouse gas emissions? New paper by @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social & others quantifies the lopsided impact of the top 10% of consumers globally. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity funding gaps - Communications Sustainability

Biodiversity loss and carbon emissions dominate the damages caused by the top ten percent of consumers, with the highest bills seen in wealthier countries, according to a study monetizing this group’s...

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A bit of good news. The personal behavior to electrify our energy use still falls to each of us. Time to switch to an EV and to heat pump heating. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg... #heatpump #wind #electrification #electrifyamerica #ev #renewable

Largest wind farm in the United States starts commercial operations - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

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Focus on these six disciplines to change behavior and drive down emissions. A required set of disciplines for everyone concerned about climate change. Are you having trouble with any of the six? www.co2mmit.org/p/the-six-di... #vegetarian #climateaction #climatechange #climate #ev #heatpump #solar

The Six Disciplines Of A Climate Concerned Consumer

Feeling overwhelmed about our choices is a significant barrier to changing our behavior to cut our emissions. These six disciplines will help focus your climate action on what matters.

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Air travel is rather inelastic Price increases do not significantly decrease demand. If you fly, recognize that your choices cause significant GHG emissoins. And flying private planes cause even more emissions/person/trip One key change to cut emissions: Fly Less www.reuters.com/sports/priva...

Private jet market defies Iran war gloom as rich flock to Monaco GP, Cannes

As soaring jet fuel prices triggered by the Iran war send ripples across the global travel market, a wealthy elite of CEOs, celebrities and sports stars is flying by private jet in greater numbers th...

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Eating no beef, even if it is simply substituted with chicken or pork, significantly cuts our emissions. Sounds like a simple change, but is it? I explore my own transition to avoiding beef, milk and cheese. www.co2mmit.org/p/eat-no-beef #beef #vegetarian #climateaction #climatechange

It's Simple to Eat No Beef. Or Is It?

My memories of beef and dairy connect seamlessly to childhood memories and to deeply ingrained habits. Eliminating food from cows wasn’t simple, but it also wasn't that difficult.

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Celebrate your actions that reduce your carbon emissions. Take the time and feel good about your actions. Advice built around a paper by @cameronbrick.bsky.social @maiensachis.bsky.social , Linli Zhou, Alaa Aldoh & Disa Sauter 2026 J of Env Psy www.co2mmit.org/p/warm-glow-...

Celebrate Your Actions that Reduce Emissions

When you act to lower emissions, enjoy the fact that your action is aligned with your concern about climate change. Celebrate. Enjoy that moment. Experience that warm glow.

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Yes, each of us should feel that warm glow when we take actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Celebrate our climate action! Explore this a bit more... www.co2mmit.org/p/warm-glow-... #Celebrate #ClimateAction

"If individuals want to pay for carbon dioxide removal, that can be viewed much like a charitable donation–a payment for something we value. But payment for carbon dioxide removal should not be viewed as a personal mechanism to justify higher emissions." www.co2mmit.org/p/cdr-is-not...

Carbon Dioxide Removal Is Not a Substitute for Deep Cuts in My Emissions

Both carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and deep cuts in emissions are required to meet emissions targets. For personal emissions, it does not make sense to use CDR to avoid cutting my emissions.

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I started exploring #offset to find a meaningful counterbalance for the #emissions I haven't cut. Once I explored #carbon #offsets, I was disappointed at the number of problems that have been identified and studies for decades now. Read more... #climateaction #climate www.co2mmit.org/p/cant-i-jus...

Can’t I Just Write a Check

Can’t I simply purchase carbon offsets to cancel out the greenhouse gas emissions my actions cause? Many carbon offsets have serious issues that impact the answer.

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"Air travel provides incredible access + convenience... air travel is deeply tied to a sense of freedom. But true freedom also includes the agency to align our actions with our values. For those of us concerned about the climate, flying less is 1 of the most powerful, immediate choices we can make."

Do #Stoic teachers like #MarcusAurelius, #Seneca and #Epictetus inform your #ClimateAction? Do you hold yourself to moral teachings beyond just doing what is legal? co2mmit.substack.com/p/climate-ac...

Climate Action with a Stoic Twist

The classic stoic philosophers lived around two thousand years ago. Yet their insights, morals and writings can inform how we approach climate action in the 21st century.

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For 2 weeks, I've used a linked quote from @Mikegrunwald in my email "signature": "In reality, all emissions matter. They accumulate in the atmosphere, so every tank of gasoline, cross-country flight and fossil-fueled load of laundry makes the earth a little warmer...

Heat pump case study: the real changes in #electric and #NaturalGas use, utility bills, and #CO2e #emissions after I changed from natural gas furnaces to dual fuel #HeatPump to heat my house. This is what actually changed. Part of my #CO2 reduction wedge. co2mmit.substack.com/p/heat-pump-...

Heat Pumps Reduce Emissions & Energy Bills

A case study of how a dual fuel heat pump changed my home's energy use, energy bills, and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Have you used infrared images to better understand where your #home leaks heat? Here's an example if you haven't yet used this tool in your #house. co2mmit.substack.com/p/my-leaky-b...

My Leaky Bucket

Upgrading a furnace in a drafty house is like pouring hot water into a leaky bucket. Seal the leaks before you pay to generate the heat & lower your emissions and cost.

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"Sealing up the drafts in my own home didn’t require an act of Congress or a sweeping federal mandate. It just took a bit of curiosity and a willingness to look closely at the leaky bucket I was paying to keep warm." #emissions reduction to address #climatechange

@mrmattsimon.bsky.social describes a path worth taking. The battery in a standard #EV is much larger than a wall-mounted battery installed with a residential solar system. #Vehicle to grid (V2G) is a viable path for reducing #greenhouse #emissions. grist.org/transportati...

How EVs could solve a problem with America's rickety grid

Vehicle-to-grid technology turns EVs into a vast network of backup power. That could help stabilize the grid and advance renewables.

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Last night, the 100th person subscribed to CO2mmit on Substack. I launched this project to foster a sense of personal agency around climate action. I believe personal action to reduce emissions is critical and fosters more engaged and heartfelt advocacy for the policy changes we also need.

About - CO2mmit by Jim Tolbert

Act - commit to reduce CO2. Click to read CO2mmit by Jim Tolbert, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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What areas in your life are you in the top 10%? Maybe the top 1%? You can probably name a few. Here's one you might not initially think of. Yet it's important to understand what it will take to reduce global #greenhouse gas #emissions to mitigate #ClimateChange co2mmit.substack.com/p/those-who-...

Those who can, don’t

Would you change your behavior if the greenhouse gas emissions you cause put you in the top 10% of emitters globally?

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Are you concerned about #climate change? If so, the car that you choose matters! Substack @co2mmit #EV #ElectricVehicle #BEV #car #transportation #emissions #ClimateChange #ClimateAction co2mmit.substack.com/p/the-car-i-...

The car I choose matters

Today, EVs are affordable, practical, and cleaner than traditional internal combustion engines vehicles. You can contribute to the solution to climate change by reducing the emissions caused when you

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Is #climatechange a systemic problem where we need to focus on the systems to find a solution? Or is it a collective action where we each need to change our behavior to find a solution. Some argue it's a systems issue. I argue #ClimateAction requires BOTH... co2mmit.substack.com/p/system-cha...

An image of three people concerned about climate change; each arguing that climate change is a systems issue; all while driving, flying and eating a steak.