Well, hello there and welcome back. I am Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 131 of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast.

On today's show, we are discussing the five things you likely do not know about your carbon footprint.

If you have been listening to this show for a while, you have heard me talk an awful lot about reducing waste.

And the reason for that is because the plastic problem was my personal entry point into

caring about sustainability.

Today we are gonna mix it up a little bit and discuss another aspect of sustainability,

which is just as important, if not more more and that is how our individual carbon

footprints are related to climate change. My goal today is not only to teach you

about what your carbon footprint is,

but also to help you understand why you should care about that number

and how exactly you can lower that number. Now we are going to dive pretty darn deep today and I should

mention at the outset that we are going to cover some taboo topics today like United States politics and our diets and family planning.

So buckle up and please know that when I discuss anything but when I discuss taboo topics especially

I do my absolute best to cover them in a fact-based manner.

Still though if you think I get it wrong, please shoot me an email or reach out to me on social media.

I'm also going to be giving you a bunch of online resources today and you can find them all hyperlinked in this

week's show notes at mama minimalist.com forward slash 131. Now before we get right into it a quick note that the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast is supported by the company founded by last week's guest Lauren Greger.

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All right, so what on earth is a carbon footprint.

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