I find the latest updates about global warming and climate catastrophes quite alarming. But, this is a site about weight loss, not climate change. However the two topics can easily be tied in together. If we adopt simpler more natural lifestyles, it can only be good for the future of a healthy planet.
So here are some tips for weight loss that help the earth too. I'm looking for more ideas from people, please add your suggestion below.
1. Walk there instead of driving if at all possible.Walking is a great way to lose weight. Walking burns as many calories as jogging per mile though it takes longer to burn them. One mile burns up about 100 calories. But the benefits are much greater as it tones the whole body, helps flatten the stomach, is a great help to the digestive system and has been shown to help reduce depression. It also increases a person's metabolism for the rest of the day, meaning more calories burned per hour long after you've stopped walking. (The image here of people walking on a city street is by
wili_hybrid.)
2. Eat less meats and processed foods and more local fruits and vegetables.Meat is a very energy intensive food to produce. Fruits and vegetables use up much less of the earth's resources per calorie and eating more fruits and vegetables and eliminating processed foods and limiting meats is one of the easiest ways to lose weight.
3. Drink filtered tap water instead of sodas, pop and juice. Save on all those cans and bottles and sugary calorie goo factory production.
Please add your suggestions below. Let's build this list to at least ten great tips!
Here are some very inspiring before and after pictures taken by a successful ex fat man. He has lost 65 pounds since November and took three different front, back and profile photos every few weeks since then. He is 28 years old and started out at 238 pounds. His secret to success has been a very extensive workout regime. 
A new reality show started last night. It's about an obese family who is being given nutritional and lifestyle guidance by Felicia Stoler (shown in the photo here). Stoler is a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist. 
Kacper has set the record for the biggest baby born in Poland. He weighed 15.7 pounds at birth and was delivered via ceasarian. His mother is 45 years old and this is her fourth birth. All of her previous babies were much larger than average but her fourth child breaks the record. See more about Kacper here.
Michelle was already a little heavier than she wanted to be when she quit smoking in mid 2006. The pounds continued to pile on. On January 4th this year she joined Weight Watchers and has been enormously successful. She started out at 180 pounds and is now down to 149 in just over three months. She is 5'8" tall. The picture here was taken before she started her diet in December 2006. 
Luis Bruno is a chef who was told by his doctor that he had five years to live if he didn't lose weight. His love of food started in childhood, he already weighed 200 pounds when he was just 12 years old. A couple of years ago when he was 35 years old his weight peaked at 400 pounds. He had developed diabetes, had to take six shots of insulin each day and could barely walk from his house to his parked car.
Nicole is 25 pounds slimmer than she was in early January. She started the NutriSystem diet and has been sticking to it more or less. Today she weighs 210 pounds and she started out in January at her heaviest weight of 235 pounds. Nicole is a mother of a two-year old toddler.