How to Live a Low-carbon Life: The Individual’s Guide to Stopping Climate Change
£14.24
Review
This is the definitive guide to reducing your carbon footprint. –New Scientist. . . if you’re fed up with reading about all the little things you can do for the planet and fancy getting stuck into some proper green living, this is the book for you. –Your Environment (Environment Agency, UK)The best book on how to live a low-carbon life. I recommend it. –Fred Pearce, author of Confessions of an Eco-Sinner
Yorkshire Post
Goodall goes a step further than most of his competitors in the burgeoning library of advice on going greener.
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Detailed home guide to helping the planet
Despite the strong evidence for global warming, neither industries nor governments are changing their assumption that the world has an inexhaustible supply of inexpensive fossil…
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analysis and practical solutions
Chris Goodall looks at how we generate carbon in our day to day live and provides in this book a clear analysis of what is happening in terms of carbon produced and where from…
This is by far the best guide to the the carbon implications of daily living that I’ve seen. Chris Goodall has both done his homework and presented it all in an accessible way. This book will give you a good understanding of what the biggest carbon issues are in your lifestyle, how the emissions arrise and what you can do about them. He’s transparent in his analysis and about where his data comes from, so you can make up your own mind whether you agree with him at every step.
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bunkum!
well, just to debunk any oil drinking, coal chomping or multinational loving accusations, i do not work for, support, or particularly like the usual suspects of the climate change…
In the How to Live a low-carbon life, Chris Goodall looks at how we generate carbon in our day to day live and what is the most cost effective way to reduce our footprint. Therein lies the key difference between this book and the many published before arguing why we should reduce our carbon foot print, or advocating one solution over an other for ideological rather than economic reasons. Chris Goodall has a no nonsense financial analysis to his approach, what is the cheapest way to cut carbon emissions, what is practical and what is just wishful thinking? It will be sometime before such a clear no nonsense book needs to be re-written- although hopefully Government grants for installing energy saving and generating improvements, the price of selling energy back to the local grid, and the cost of running `green’ transport will mean that the figures need to be updated. If you only buy one book on this subject you could do worse than buying this one
Since watching Al Gore’s `An Inconvenient Truth’ I have read several current books concerned with global warming. Of particular interest was how individual efforts can help remedy, what the science makes abundantly clear, is a manmade problem. Goodall’s `How to Live a Low-carbon Life’ is the only book I have come across which rigorously quantifies how lifestyles affect emissions. It provides grounded research and useful actionable information that can help redress the balance. All but those who cling to conspiracy theories, pseuo-science and outdated denial dogma will find this a readable and useful book.