Everyday we see people buying energy efficient bulbs or products such as the ones from Energy Star in order to reduce their carbon footprint as well as save money in the process. All of this does help but who is doing the most to reduce their footprint? Meet Joan Pick. She eats only raw food, uses only one bulb and enough energy to heat her kettle and she takes bucket baths. On top of that she hasn’t driven a car since 1973 and has only been in one twice since that date. She also hasn’t flown in an air plane since 1971. Take a look below at what she said in a recent interview.

“I realised we have got the energy question totally wrong. I decided to imagine that the earth was a business in need of sound management. We are all members of the board, a shareholder, a trustee, a consumer and an employee. We believed that fossil fuels were infinite, but they are finite….They have to almost bribe people to use energy-efficient things. It’s terrible. I adopt a [lifestyle] that is consistent with the sustainable management of the world’s resources. Everyone knows we have to have very severe cutbacks to meet that standard.”

It’s always nice to see people changing the way the lived in order to help out the environment a bit and it just goes to show that you don’t need money to reduce your carbon footprint and that you can actually save money. via gu