There is great movement going on right now in the US and hopefully all over the globe, that has schools, municipalities, companies and individual divest from oil in their stock portfolio.

When like me you don’t own any stock in the market, there is many other ways to divest from oil and its derivatives. When you buy something you actually invest in the company that produced the product, you’re participating in their revenues.

I decided to start with small things like hairbrush, cooking utensils, etc.. by replacing used or broken ones by natural and responsibly produced objects. For bigger items, it’s more complicated to get a replacement so your only choice would be to sell it or better never buy it. If public transportation, ride sharing and walking are an option, great, you can avoid the car.

The most polluting part of a car by itself is not its emissions (though with the sheer number of cars in the world, they contribute to a disastrous climate imbalance). The construction of the car (energy, space, etc) and the material involved have a bigger ecological footprint,

My car is electric, that reduce the side effects when I use it (noise, pollution, low maintenance) to the energy source. Luckily we get more on more energy from renewable sources. But to build the car and its batteries there is also a big ecological footprint to consider.

To go further, the renewable energy sources like solar panels have an ecological cost at production.

For all these reasons, I wish we make the effort to evaluate the total ecology cost of all the products and services we consume. I read about some of these systems and units in the past, I thinks they should be pushed into the mainstream consumer world.

What do you think?