The new year is the time to get your finances in order - and resolving to cut emissions can be a practical financial decision, writes Juliette Jowit.
This year you've seen An Inconvenient Truth and rocked at Live Earth. In 2008, you want to know what to do to help save the planet but, with financial belt-tightening in the new year, you want to be able to do it without spending more. The problem is: where do you start?
It's the million-dollar question asked of environmental experts every day. Should you be saving energy, helping endangered species, cutting local pollution or supporting local shops? Should you aim for the biggest possible green impact, or go for something smaller but more achievable? And how do you make sure you do not become one of the millions of people who give up on their eco-resolutions by the end of January?
A slew of organisations have started to produce lists, including perhaps the most comprehensive attempt yet to quantify the most effective pledges people - and businesses - can make, by WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund. The new lists are mostly presented, with a suitably seasonal twist, as new year's resolutions. But while January is a traditional time to take stock and vow to be a better person, they could apply at any time of the year.
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