GreenHome – Practical Ways to Reduce Your Household Emissions

Course Overview:

This course is designed for Australian households who have completed a household carbon footprint baseline using the GreenHome Impact Tracker (GHIT) and want to take practical steps to reduce their emissions.

Learners will use their GHIT results to identify emission hotspots across energy, transport, waste, and lifestyle choices, and select realistic actions that fit their household circumstances. The course focuses on achievable, everyday changes rather than idealised solutions.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify which household activities contribute most to your carbon emissions using GHIT results

• Prioritise emission-reduction actions based on impact, effort, cost, and personal control

• Select practical emission-reduction actions across energy, transport, waste, and lifestyle categories

• Distinguish between low-effort, medium-effort, and longer-term household actions

Course Structure:

• Module 1: Practical Ways to Reduce Your Household Emissions
  How to move from GHIT results to practical actionOverview of GHIT’s four emission categories:EnergyTransport

  Waste

  Lifestyle & Consumption

  Why prioritisation matters (impact, effort, cost, control)

Learning Mode and Assessment

Delivery Mode: Online, self-paced (approx. 3 hours total duration).
Assessment: Self-assessed learning with indicative answers provided.

Course Materials

The course includes:

• Lecture slides and recorded video lectures
• Applied case studies
• Knowledge-check quizzes
• Supplementary learning resources

Certification and Attribution

A Certificate of Completion is issued upon satisfactory completion of all modules.