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I'd say the biggest impact we have in the area of environmental conservation is our choice not to have children......that's huge
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Ditto for us....it
is huge, especially Westerners with our wasteful lifestyles...one example is on garbage day, all the families on our block put their big containers out (and they are overflowing) once a week, while ours is just half full every three weeks....big difference there. I read somewhere that Canadians produce more household waste than anywhere else in the world, I don't doubt it.
We don't have curbside recycling, we take it in to depots (bottles and cans and tins) and you get $$ for it. The depots here are called SARCAN and staffed by people with disablities (likely common everywhere?).
I just started recycling tin cans and glass containers last year
....you don't get money for it, but it makes me feel virtuous. I hardly ever see anyone bringing them in when I am there though, most people just recycle cans and bottles.
We don't get the paper any more, we cancelled it last year. But we still get flyers and a local paper once a week, and dump that in recycling bins.
We bought a compost bin from town last year and we make compost for the garden and flower beds. This cuts down our household waste by a lot. Growing a garden helps too, and I get a lot of canning and veggies from mom still too.
water garden and flowers with my 2 rain barrels...very rarely have to water other than that.
I buy spices, etc. in bulk and use storage containers instead of buying lots of bottles and containers.
We use our A/C pretty sparingly and keep our heat low in winter.
Use muscle power to shovel snow, not a snowblower- healthier too. When our lawnmower dies we might get a mechanical one, my aunt has one and they love it- it's quiet!
and we shoot some of our own meat (venison) and eat locally caught (by us) fish, we don't eat saltwater fish, we are inland and it has to be transported.