We've settled over the last few years into what is probably a reasonably frugal, carbon emission-low lifestyle - we don't drive, rarely travel outside our own small town, switch lights off to save money, have the heating set at OFF except for coldest winter days and wear boots and sweaters over pajamas, grow some veg, mend old clothes rather than buying. I borrow/ beg stuff for repairs, recently wood out of neighbour's skip for a raised veg bed. I buy supermarket food because I have a discount card but I usually buy British for meat and prefer to buy veg and local produce from stalls markets etc when cost allows. We made a conscious decision not to add to the planet's population Though this has mainly to do with adjustments made due to the recession rather than response to climate change on which I don't feel too qualified to comment, coming from a mainly non-scientific background and being frankly confused and a bit cynical about conflicting arguments in the press. If I had to comment I go with the Gaia Hypothesis -I think the planet will survive long term but it'll shake itself like a dog if we, the fleas, annoy it too much. Like Lonemagpie, I feel the damage is probably already done and we need to do more to learn to adjust to the major changes coming. Getting used to using less heat, water, growing veg will prepare us for doing without things we've learnt to rely on and life seems simpler and better like this anyway. I don't feel it limits creativity, more encourages it - I've had great fun finding out my immediate ancestors, (grandparents and before) ways of doing things over the last couple of years, using herbal treatments for minor illness for example, or making homemade elderberry brandy. I live in a cottage, have three black cats and grow herbs. Sort of feels RIGHT .