We have installed a water saving shower head to save water and shortening our showers!

My wife has introduced me to the Yuka app after learning about it a yoga festival.
Now when we visit a supermarket we scan food and health care products to identify harmful ingreidents, additives and pollutants.
I recently switched from using aerosls to deodrant stick. As the aerosole I was using included a susbstance, BHT which in studies has shown to be harmful to the human body as well as marine life.
https://yuka.io/en/

https://yuka.io/en/

Supporting 2 local litter picking gave me a positive feeling, especially meeting and spending time with other Emerson colleagues that I don't normally interact with in my daily work. It was disappointing to see what people carelessly disregard in bushes or next to pavements without taking the time to dispose of the waste properly. Lots of empty glass wine bottles and drinks can amongst other things, which can easily be recycled.

Of course, cigarette butts are the most common trash that we picked-up (isn't a good idea to add a specific clean-up tax to the price of each cigarette?). the most uncommon trash is actually old bikes that people abandon alongside the streets because they don't want to pay the small fees at the recycling center.

This year our energy supplier (WWZ) has installed smart meters inside our building and now we can track our energy consumption almost in real time. Being able to monitor our consumption at this granularity offers great opportunities to reduce further our carbon footprint. next step will be to track major energy consumption drivers inside home such as heating's , and key equipments'.

the global warming is affecting water access in Zug canton with episodes of drought and flood depending on the year. this put the resource of the administration under pressure since various infrastructures are impacted during flooding. These are resources that will not be available for social and healthcare issues. Therefore the most vulnerable are impacted one way or another.