I get raw milk delivered in glass bottles.
I eat meat, but grassfed and very local, which I buy in my own tupperware from the butchers in town. Industrial farming, both arable and factory farmed animals, is the problem, not meat per se. Ruminant pastures are thriving biodiverse ecosystems, sequester carbon, soil nutrients and water; whereas monocultural fields (wheat, soy, corn etc) displace/kill all other organisms that were living there, require vast inputs of fossil fuel fertiliser, water and agrochemicals and releases tons of carbon and soil fertility when tilled. Machinery and chemicals kill untold millions of creatures per acre. Then there’s the rodent control required for granaries. Plant-based isn’t so ahimsa. Read the Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith and Wilding by Isabella Tree and watch the Alan Savory TED talk. We need a food system which approximates what life on earth was like before the dawn of agriculture… the planet was teeming with large ruminants, which wasn’t an ecological problem because they sequester more carbon into the soil and deep grassland root systems than they emit via farts and burps. In medieval times, animals were raised in silviculture… semi woodland/meadowland, which is ideal in terms of carbon storage and biodiversity. Life and death is cyclical, but agriculture is a linear enterprise that depletes soil carbon, fertility, rivers and biodiversity. We’ve only got a few decades of crop harvests left now before all the top soil has been wiped out.
Eggs are from hens from the lady on the fruit & veg stall, vegetables are mostly from the same stall and grown at a local farm a mile away. I try to eat the majority of my food from within my own landscape.
I collect spring water while out on my dog walk for drinking, cooking and pets’ water.
I put a bucket in the shower to collect the water and water the garden. Ditto save the water drawn off while waiting for the hot tap to run and washing up bowl water.
Almost all of my clothes and shoes are second hand, bar knickers and socks. I use a darning mushroom and thread to mend holes in clothes. Also buy most of my books and household stuff like pans are 2nd hand.
Clothes horse or line dry my washing.
In winter months, set the heating to mid teens only and wear thermals, woollie jumper and fingerless mitts.
We have solar panels, so I try to bunch my electricity use to the middle of the day when sunny to minimise draw from the main grid… so dishwasher, washing machine, cooking, charging etc.
I reuse empty food packets as dog poo bags… just pick up with a small piece of newspaper. Large food bags eg dog biscuits get reused as cat litter disposal.
I watch youtube at only 360p resolution, so as to reduce data downloaded. I also minimise what I upload to social media etc, as all web traffic & storage requires large data centres, which are a huge energy drain on global electricity supplies. I delete old emails, empty my trash can and unsubscribe from mailing lists. I don’t use things like netflix or have Bitcoin.
Small stuff I do… bar soap, bamboo toothbrush, loose leaf tea etc, but it’s so insignificant I don’t sweat it. It’s far more important now to go for the large fruit, rather than the low-hanging.
Flying, I’ve pledged to only have one or two more flights. I’d love to go back to Iceland, but the sea route there emits more carbon than flying, so flying is actually lower impact than sailing. The ferry stopped calling in Scotland a few years ago. Likewise there’s no other ferries between Britain and Scandinavia any more due to pressure from cheap airline seats. I haven’t flown longhaul for over 30 years (LHR - E Canada). I lived in N Ireland and got the train & ferry when I could over the Irish sea, but did fly once or twice a year, and have also flown to Iceland, Denmark & Spain 5 times in the past decade.
I’ve taken direct action by joining my local XR and going to the big protests in April and July.