In a study in California, Renwick and Green concluded that public information campaigns and retrofit subsidies reduced household water consumption by 8%and9%9%, while water rationing and water restriction dropped consumption by 19%and29%9%, respectively [18].
Indeed, chimpanzees live their entire lives without food production ever dropping below consumption [ 61].
Another reason to drop animal consumption is our home.
By increasing the energy renovation rate to about 3% and applying existing insulation technologies we can drastically drop energy consumption and CO2 emissions.
But consumer group Which says customers are still paying 52% more a year for their energy than they were a decade ago, despite domestic consumption dropping 17%.
Oh, and it succeeded in dropping fossil fuel consumption per person by 16% while it increased 3% in the rest of Canada.
Wine Monitor Nomisma, an Italian site that follows the wine market, reports on new data on the country's wine consumption: In 2012, consumption dropped 3.6%.
EU gas consumption is dropping.
Global cotton production and consumption are dropping, and the Agriculture Department expects the nation's exports to fall by $1.2 billion this year.
Last year, the average American's lamb consumption dropped below a pound per person, the lowest since such meat consumption has been recorded.
Reported alcohol consumption dropped substantially for all countries in the second trimester as did reported binge consumption.
