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Eco-friendly living improves our health and wellbeing, happiness, and finances whilst protecting our global ecosystem.

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Our actions and our influence on others can make waves.

EcoTracker supports you to reduce your personal environmental impact and inspire others to do the same
This is achievable, for everyone.

Do you want to reduce your environmental impact, but don’t know where to start, how to best prioritise, or how to stay motivated?

Take simple step-by-step actions to reduce your personal environmental impact

EcoTracker is designed to support you to take simple step-by-step actions to reduce your personal environmental impact and do your bit to address the climate and ecological emergency and promote climate justice, thus helping to save lives, reduce inequality, and avoid global ecosystem collapse and mass extinction. Other benefits of using EcoTracker may include improved health and wellbeing for you and others, opportunities to learn new skills and to save money.

Share your personal eco-progress-story and participate in the community.

EcoTracker is also designed to help you maximise your wider positive influence and promote wider community action. Share your personal eco-progress-story and participate in the community, to inspire others and achieve so much more than you can alone. Sign up to our newsletter to get extra content and be eco-inspired!

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Track your impact

Use our simple, high-level Tracker to quickly estimate and understand your current personal impact on the Climate and ecological emergency.

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Track your impact

Use our simple, high-level Tracker to quickly estimate and understand your current personal impact on the Climate and ecological emergency.

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Take the Top Actions with the biggest impact

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Support rewilding – in your garden and elsewhere
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Eco-friendly money
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Buy fewer products (re-use and repair)
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Use eco-friendly products and services (and reduce waste)
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Reduce food waste
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Eat an eco-friendly diet
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Walk, cycle, use public transport and reduce driving
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Eco-friendly driving
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Eco-friendly travel (reduce / avoid flying)
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Reduce my home energy use
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Get renewable electricity
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Get low carbon heating

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Buy fewer products
(re-use and repair)

  • Halve your spending on new clothes
  • Halve your spending on new electricals
  • Halve your spending on new furniture and fittings
  • Do you really need that second car?
  • Buy new products only when essential. Buy second hand or borrow or rent if possible
  • Re-use, repair and up-cycle your possessions and sell or donate those you don’t need
42,823 people are committed to completing this top action

Participate in the community

You have probably already completed some of the EcoTracker Top Actions and may be well on the way to minimising your environmental impact. Share your “personal eco-progress-story” achievements (past and present) to inspire the community.
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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EcoTracker7 months ago
Top tip for those trying to eat more plant-based foods to reduce their dietary impact: It is really useful to plan some meals ahead before going shopping so that you already have the ingredients you need. Find other tips at the EcoTracker Eat and eco-friendly diet page:ecotracker.org.uk/eat-an-eco-friendly-diet/
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Make The EcoTracker 2030 Pledge

Commit to a meaningful and achievable target to reduce your personal environmental impact; this involves aiming to complete all 12 EcoTracker Top Actions by 2030.
  • 2030 is our last chance to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
  • Together we can achieve net zero carbon by 2030.
If you are just starting your journey to net zero carbon in 2022, you would need to complete a Top Action roughly every 225 days in order to complete all 12 and get to net zero carbon by 2030.

Take wider actions to maximise your impact

You can have an even bigger impact by extending your influence and choosing to take further / wider actions such as
Discuss environmental issues
Discuss environmental issues with others, share progress made and encourage them to act. If you have found EcoTracker useful, do refer them to us… For tips on how to have successful climate conversations, such as finding common ground, read this handbook by Climate Outreach.
Sign environmental petitions
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Send message to your local politicians
Email your MP or other local politicians to let them know you care about environmental issues. Some campaigning organisations provide template letters which can be personalised. Use WriteToThem to quickly identify your local UK politicians and send them a message.
Is a new large pet right for you?
Seriously consider whether getting a new large pet is right for you,given their significant environmental impact estimated at up to 1.4 Tonnes of CO2 per year, as outlined by the Independent. If you are especially keen to have a pet, consider smaller pets and / or those with a vegetarian diet, and / or source pet food following guidance from the Eat an eco-friendly diet EcoTracker Top Action. Also consider getting a rescue pet, which is an eco-friendly alternative.
Peaceful protests
Make or join protests. These are powerful opportunities to make your feelings known for those who are comfortable with such approaches; they could be typical peaceful protests such as marches or sit-down protests, or you could take non-violent direct action such as that organised by Extinction Rebellion (if you are personally willing to accept the risk of legal and social ramifications).
Inspire other people
Inspire your children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews, and other young people to appreciate environmental issues and to make sustainable living a habit for life.
Explore eco-friendly opportunities
Discuss environmental issues at work and encourage your company to explore eco-friendly opportunities.
Policies to help local residents
Respond to your Local Plan consultation and demand that this includes policies to help local residents reduce their environmental impact and promote sustainable living.
Nature conservation organisations
Join or support nature conservation organisations, and / or make carbon offset payments to support natural schemes.
Local community group
Join or support a local community group fighting for sustainable change.
Consider limiting your family size
Seriously consider limiting your family size, given that having additional children is estimated to be the biggest environmental impact resulting from any personal choice at 59 Tonnes of CO2 per additional child per year for “developed countries”. This estimate by Wynes and Nicholas (2017) relies on various assumptions about the long term future and so will be less accurate than estimates of our typical current personal lifestyle impacts, however its large magnitude suggests that having additional children is likely to have an even bigger impact than all of the EcoTracker Top Actions added together. If you do already have children or would like to have another child, it is critical that you choose to take responsibility for minimising their environmental impact and guiding them to do the same in their adulthood. If you would like to have another child, consider adoption, which is an eco-friendly opportunity to take an existing child without a home into a loving family.

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