What is the highest-impact change a household can make?

In most high-income countries: cutting car and flight travel, switching heating away from fossil gas, eating plant-based, and moving savings or pensions out of fossil-fuel-heavy funds.

Do individual actions matter if corporations pollute more?

Both matter and they are linked — household demand shapes corporate supply, and people who change their own consumption are measurably more likely to support ambitious climate policy.

Living

Sustainable living at home: energy, transport and money

Heating, insulation, appliances, transport modal shift and where your pension or bank sits in the emissions picture.

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Duurzaam Leven Eco Lifestyle Zero Waste Klimaat

Groot fast fashion distributiecentrum in Nederland, trucks, kledingcontainers, grijze lucht

Eco Lifestyle

Een gesprek met Yvette Hekkert over de groeiende impact van fast fashion op Nederland

Ontdek hoe de fast fashion-industrie de Nederlandse consument en het milieu beïnvloedt, met inzichten van duurzaamheidsexperte Yvette Hekkert.

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Questions this hub answers

What is the highest-impact change a household can make?: In most high-income countries: cutting car and flight travel, switching heating away from fossil gas, eating plant-based, and moving savings or pensions out of fossil-fuel-heavy funds.
Do individual actions matter if corporations pollute more?: Both matter and they are linked — household demand shapes corporate supply, and people who change their own consumption are measurably more likely to support ambitious climate policy.