One family's New Year's climate resolution helps combat global warming » Yale Climate Connection

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Every winter, as January approaches, Eric Laine of Binghamton, N.Y., sits down with his wife and children to make New Year's resolutions… New Year's Day spirit resolution.

Lane: “It's one way we talk about the importance of doing our part… We're led to believe that we actually have little impact on what a person or a family does. But actually, we can do Many things.

One year they committed to switching to renewable energy and added a community solar farm.

Another year as they work to electrify transportation. Now both Lane and his wife drive electric vehicles.

A year later, after extensive research, they concluded that one of the best ways to reduce climate-warming pollution is to stop eating meat. A few years later, Lane's wife became a vegetarian, he became a vegetarian, and their children ate a mostly plant-based diet.

Lane and his wife are committed to engaging their children as individuals and as a family in the annual process of thinking about what steps can be taken.

Lane: “They're still young, but old enough to realize that their actions and what's going on around them play a big role in shaping the world around them. We're trying to get them to realize that the decisions they make will shape the world around them.” have an important impact on their future.

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