How to Live a Low Carbon Life
by Chris Goodall

 
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How to Live a Low Carbon Life is subtitled: The individual's guide to stopping climate change.

• Individual action is now recognized as one of the keys to tackling climate change – the greatest challenge facing humanity

• This book shows how you can conduct a personal and household ‘carbon audit,’ and take decisive action for lowering your 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


This thorough and wide-ranging handbook provides all the information needed to understand your impacts on the world’s climate. It gives you the information to enable you to adjust your lifestyle 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.

What people have said about the book:

'thoroughly researched book sets out in detail how we can each help the planet pull back from the abyss... by ordinary individual actions in our daily lives. We ignore his advice at our peril.'
Robert Napier, Chief Executive WWF-UK

‘As this admirable guide demonstrates so clearly, a low-carbon lifestyle can be elegant, fun, rewarding and save us all a lot of money - as well as the planet!’
Jonathon Porritt, CBE (Founder Director of Forum for the Future)

‘Climate change isn’t someone else’s problem, we all have to play our part. It’s time for us all to go on a carbon diet, and this book shows you how.’
Charles Dunstone (CEO of Carphone Warehouse)

'a brilliant book... bristling with facts, statistics and meticulous analysis of the make up of our average UK carbon footprint and how we can reduce it to a sustainable level.'
Gareth Kane, Environmental Consultant