How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by Joanna Yarrow is a simple, cheerful guide to save energy, resources and money. Bright looking and easy to use, this is a great guide for the eco-newbie. Yarrow explains that ‘small changes can add up to big results for the planet’. The book is laid out in easy to follow sections –Heating & Cooling, Electricity & Electronics, Cooking, Washing & Cleaning, Gardening & DIY, Shopping, Children, Work, Leisure, and Transport. Everything you need, right?
The chapters are then divided into more detailed sub-chapters. For example, Heating & Cooling covers; sun & shade, drafts, insulation, furnace, heating & cooling controls, heating outlets, and air-conditioning. With each section, author Joanna Yarrow has provided a slew of easy to follow eco-types for each aspect of our lives.
Many of the solutions are cost-effective, easy to implement and require little effort to actualize. For example, in the Heating & Cooling section, Yarrow recommends solutions ranging from planting a trellis on the sunny side of the house to provide a buffer of cool air, to painting your house a light color in a warm climate and a darker color in a longer winter climate. Solutions range from quick and easy, to more complex and costly. Each section offers a similar wide range of options for living more lightly.
How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is much more solution-focused than data-focused.
Peppered throughout How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint are facts and figures explaining why the various solutions make sense for the planet or the pocketbook. This book is much more solution-focused than data-focused. Some of the how-to-green-your-life-books on the market get so caught up in dazzling us with details that they forget the information about actual implementation. How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is much more geared towards eco-action.
An upbeat guide to living a greener lifestyle while saving some money at the same time.
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
128 Pages
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