These are some tips to help people become proactive in reducing carbon emissions.
Planting trees and bushes help quite a bit. Currant bushes, when you plant two you plant a hedge. When a currant bush limb touches the ground, the branch will root and grow another bush. Currant will just about grow anywhere south of the artic circle and not in the desert. Alpine Strawberrys although small have more flavor in them than the strawberries found at the grocer. These plants will send roots for starts everywhere. Again, plant two and watch the area fill up with strawberry plants. There are many bushes and berry plants out there that will handily reproduce without much human help after planting. Birds and deer etc. like them also.
One of my favorite tree solutions is why buy a fake Christmas tree or a dead cut Christmas tree. Buy a tree with a root ball and around May sometime beginning after the last frost, plant the tree. Many state and Federal parks welcome the donation. But it is a good idea to ask first. :-)
Bottled water and everything else wrapped in plastic. I remember sandwiches wrapped in a sheet of waxed paper. Buying chips in a waxed paper bag. Grocery stores and other stores using paper bags. Easily recyclable paper. many schools, churches and scout troops boys and girls would hold yearly paper drives to make a little extra money for varies activities. Now everything is encased in plastic. A byproduct of crude oil. Hard to recycle. And water and soda bottles are worse to recycle.
Aluminum and glass container can be recycled in electric furnaces and is a lot cheaper to remelt and reuse than to refine. I knew of a hotel and tavern that would save the taverns empty beer cans and once a year sell to a recycler and pay the taxes on the establishment.
Brass and copper also can be recycled and are much cheaper and less polluting than refining raw ore. Let's use technology to figure out cleaner ways to remelt instead of digging more holes in the ground or ruining the sea bottom.
I will be posting more ideas in a week or two and look for Gardening Toads comments. Gardening Toad almost always posts good links to good ideas.