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What Solarpunk changes have you made in your daily life? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
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I feel like I always think of solar punk as a macro thing where a lot has to change but there are still smaller wins we can implement, what have you been doing?

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[–] 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)

If you've got a young'n:

  • Go cloth diapers over disposable most the time. We went woth a diaper servce to start, then bought our own once we had it figured out.
  • For the ebike: we waited until kiddo was old enough for a bike seat (10 mo in our case, but ~12 mo) for the ebike. This let us get a longtail that is cheaper, mechanically simpler, and we can store inside instead of a bucket style bike
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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It takes something like 500 years for a store bought disposable diaper to decompose in a landfill, and we use billions of them every year.

    If one can use cloth, I say one should.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Our daughter is 10 months so we're just starting looking for bikes. I was thinking about getting a long tail because that's what people around us seem to be using.

    I know cloth diapers are better for the environment I just can't.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Cloth diapers can definitely be hard if you dont have on-site laundry. We were lucky enough to live somewhere with a diaper service when we didn't have laundry.

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