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How to Live a Low-Carbon Life
Chris Goodall
The Individuals Guide to Stopping Climate Change
Earthscan Publications
April 2007
On Sale: March 30, 2007
319 pages
ISBN: 1844074269
EAN: 9781844074266
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Individual action is now recognized as one of the keys to
tackling climate change - the greatest challenge facing
humanity * Shows how consumers can conduct a personal
and household `carbon audit,' take decisive action for
lowering their carbon footprint and save money
* User-
friendly and comprehensive: includes tables for
calculating carbon emissions and monetary costs and
savings and methods for making choices for maximum carbon
and cost reduction
* Companion website with easy-to-
use spreadsheets and up to the minute figures and product
information How to Live a Low Carbon Life provides a
comprehensive, one-stop reference guide to calculating
individual carbon emissions and it lays out clear plans
for how individuals can reduce their emissions. Covering
all aspects of modern life from transport to home heating
to where our food comes from to the vexing issue of
holiday travel, the book provides easy-to-use tables for
conducting a personal lifestyle `carbon audit'. This
thorough and wide-ranging handbook provides all the
information needed for people and families to understand
their impacts on the world's climate. It gives them the
information to enable them to adjust lifestyles and live a
responsible life. Written in an optimistic tone, it shows
how easy it is to take responsibility and reduce our
personal carbon emissions.
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