make a smaller ecological footprint

Step 3: fill up a cup of water before brushing my teeth and ONLY use the water in the cup!

The entry before this made me think of an bit which I read recently taken from A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. This paragraph is taken from the section where he is discussing Easter Island and how its inhabitants managed to completly deforest it thus bringing about the collapse of their culture…

We might think that in such a limited place, where, from the height of Terevaka, islanders could survey their whole world at a glance, steps would have been taken to halt the cutting, to protect the saplings, to replant. We might think that as trees became scarce, the erection of statues would have been curtailed, and timber reserved for essential purposes such as boatbuilding and roofing. But that is not what happened. The people who felled the last tree could see it was the last, could know with complete certainty that there would never be another. And they felled it anyway.

Lets make sure this never has to be written about our country.

Step 1: stop eating meat . . . check!

Step 2: use less hot water . . .