What can you do to fight climate change? Think small – choose Wi-fi over mobile data and use a cooler wash for a more sustainable lifestyle

When watching your favourite Netflix show reduce the picture quality; if listening to Spotify, consider downloading it to your hard drive instead of streaming

A temperature of 30 degrees Celsius is enough to clean your dirty clothes, and can save more than 50 per cent of electricity usage compared to a 60-degree wash

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Experts weigh in on the small steps that you can take to limit climate change from happening. Pictured: a melting iceberg in Antarctica. Photo: Getty Images

Published: 4:15am, 7 Dec 2021Updated: 5:38am, 7 Dec 2021

Separating your rubbish, saving electricity, travelling by train: these are all ways we can live more sustainably.

But climate change is influenced by many more areas of our lives than you might think. Those who want to live consciously can do more – for example, at the office or the supermarket.

For many of us, not being able to open up our laptops and stream the latest series would be unthinkable nowadays. However, the server farms needed to provide content require a lot of energy.

A few tricks make things more environmentally friendly: stream once, watch from your hard drive all other times is the general rule. Films, shows and music should not be streamed over and over again, but downloaded once to the device and played from there.

When streaming, you can opt to reduce the picture quality of the videos. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

While you may not be able to keep your favourite Netflix shows downloaded, your favourite songs on Spotify will likely fit onto your phone’s hard drive. If possible, try to use a LAN (local area network) connection or at the very least Wi-fi, as mobile data uses more energy.