How to Reduce Your Homestead’s Carbon Footprint

Reader Contribution by Kacey Bradley
Published on January 6, 2020
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Living off the land provides plenty of advantages for your finances and health, and it equally benefits the environment. Lowering your reliance on external entities lets you gain control over how you interact with the land. You may wonder how you can improve your current strategies and shrink your homestead’s carbon footprint even more. Look no further — here’s how to turn your environmental impact from decent to excellent.

1. Thrifted and Homemade Clothing

Buying new outfits is fun, but producing clothes requires numerous resources. Cotton is a water-intensive crop that can deplete residential water supplies, and synthetic fibers create carbon emissions due to coal-based production methods. As the “fast fashion” trend increases, more harmful gases enter the atmosphere.

You can save money and conserve natural resources by buying clothes from thrift stores and sewing. Look for clothes made from fibers like burlap and jute when you go shopping instead of choosing synthetic polyesters or acrylics.

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