With each day getting hotter and hotter, it has dawned on me that the enormity of global warming has become extremely daunting and dispiriting.

Global warming continues to be a hot topic not only regionally but internationally, and the taunting heat, the disappearing beaches and the bleaching corals continue to provide the evidence needed to validate the importance of both individual and governmental interventions in tackling the issues. Even though some may think that climate change is too big of an issue to be tackled on an individual basis, there are actually personal lifestyle changes that you can make that, in some combination, can help reduce your carbon impact.