I am interested in keeping the planet clean. I do my best to buy things with little packaging, bring bags when I shop, drive a fully electric motorbike, use the local farm market, compost, and recycle everything. Even when I had a family of seven my weekly garbage bag was about a quarter full.
Now though, there is the matter of this house we own. Perfect for a big family, but with only three of us at home now we don’t use the sitting room, my husband and I have our own individual offices – his the entire third floor – extra bedrooms and a full basement being used only for laundry and storage, we have the issue of the carbon footprint to deal with that is much too big for the two of us. I suggested to my husband that we get a student in, but he does not wish to live like this and frankly the idea of selling our home is just not really that feasible. Moving house would cost between 5 and 10K with the real-estate and lawyers fees, and we have 10 years owing on our mortgage, so it simply is not economical for us to move at the moment. Too, we like the house, the neighbours, the area, the handy deli, baker and those places that make local shopping totally possible, true we could simply buy again in the same area, but still the cost would be the same since we do the packing and moving ourself.
Our home is about 2500 square feet – any suggestions to keep us both carbon free as well as financially in a similar spot?
