Sustainable Lifestyle

What actions could you (in theory) undertake that would improve the 'sustainability' of your lifestyle? What might be preventing you from doing these?

There are lots of things I could do to improve the sustainability of my lifestyle, the main one would probably be not to drive everywhere. Me driving everywhere is increasing the gas emissions and the fossil fuel consumption which will mean there is less for future generations.Having passed my test for a while now I drive everywhere as its so much quicker and more reliable than using public transport. Its also much faster, to get to my job in the town centre it takes 15 minutes at the most but if I were to take the bus i'd have to leave almost an hour earlier. If the public transport links were improved and made cheaper I may consider using them instead.

I think I could also try and eat more healthily, this would have many sustainable impacts. Having a healthier diet would improve my overall health which in the long run would class me at a lower risk of developing any illnesses due to diet which would save on the health service and therefore the public spending so they could invest that in to something else. Eating fresher produce may also help instead of the ready meals, fruit and vegetables may be imported from other countries but they use considerably less packaging again reducing the use of fossil fuels in there production. I could even grown my own food but it takes a lot of patience and a certain knowledge of gardening which I just don't have, not to mention the weather in this country not being the most reliable.

The recycling facilities have been improved vastly in the past few years but I don't recycle anywhere near as much as I should because it takes so much effort to seperate everything but if I could put in a little more effort and recycle unwanted paperwork and things instead of just putting them in the bin.