How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Berners-Lee, Mike
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Berners-Lee, Mike

How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

Is it more environmentally friendly to ride the bus or drive a hybrid car? In a public...
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Author: Mike Berners-Lee
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How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Berners-Lee, Mike

How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

BD$25.46
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Berners-Lee, Mike

How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

BD$25.46
Author: Mike Berners-Lee
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Is it more environmentally friendly to ride the bus or drive a hybrid car? In a public washroom, should you dry your hands with paper towel or use the air dryer? And how bad is it really to eat bananas shipped from South America?

Climate change is upon us whether we like it or not. Managing our carbon usage has become a part of everyday life and we have no choice but to live in a carbon-careful world. The seriousness of the challenge is getting stronger, demanding that we have a proper understanding of the carbon implications of our everyday lifestyle decisions. However most of us don't have sufficient understanding of carbon emissions to be able to engage in this intelligently.

Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices, and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. It also helps put our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, and the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing a shirt, a glass of beer). And it covers the range from birth (the carbon footprint of having a child) to death (the carbon impact of cremation). Packed full of surprises-a plastic bag has the smallest footprint of any item listed, while a block of cheese is bad news-the book continuously informs, delights, and engages the reader.

Highly accessible and entertaining, solidly researched and referenced, packed full of easily digestible figures, catchy statistics, and informative charts and graphs, How Bad Are Bananas? is doesn't tell people what to do, but it will raise awareness, encourage discussion, and help people to make up their own minds based on their own priorities.

Author: Mike Berners-Lee
Publisher: Greystone Books
Published: 04/01/2011
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.59w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781553658313


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/11/2011
Choice 12/01/2011
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