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  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Collins; illustrated edition edition (3 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007248121
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007248124
  • Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.5 x 11.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The Green Parent, June/July 2007

'...your portable instant green checklist.'

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What effect are you having on the environment? If you buy Kenyan green beans what is the CO2 cost? What about your journey to work, your fridge or your clothes? The Gem Carbon Counter is your portable instant green reckoner.

This handy little book is printed on 100% recycled paper and includes:

• Introduction by Mark Lynas author of Hide Tide: News from a Warming World

• Welcome to the Greenhouse: Explains what the Greenhouse effect actually is, all the issues surrounding global warming and your carbon footprint?

• Your Carbon Footprint: Measure your own carbon footprint covering all aspects of your life from your food shopping to your work, holidays and clothes. Starting with your home gas and electricity supplies and usage, the handy green reckoner takes you through each part of your life and helps you add up the impact you are making on the environment. So, in turn, it allows you to identify the key parts of your life which you’ll need to adapt to reduce your carbon footprint: from which coffee you drink to how often you go on holiday.

• Sustainability: How do you measure up in comparison to the average person’s carbon footprint? What can you do to generate your own energy and therefore reduce your footprint and what sort of targets can you set yourself?

• Helpful Appendices: Includes information on carbon emissions for journeys by car, train and plane. A list of corporate companies, their emissions and what they are doing to reduce their carbon footprint so that as a consumer, you can make decisions on who you support. A helpful carbon diary where you can record your carbon footprint for the year. Useful websites where you can read more about green issues.

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A bit disappointing 18 April 2012
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Although this is clearly a small book, and therefore it would be unreasonable to expect great depth, I found it a little disappointing as it didn't suggest many ideas for reducing my carbon footprint that I haven't already undertaken. I wouldn't describe myself as the most hardened eco-warrior, so I think this is a failing of the book. I'd hoped for something beyond the obvious.
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Very good for classroom setting, easy for students to calculate what they use in their own lifestyle situation.
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A cracking little book about the environment and practical steps for anyone 2 Sep 2009
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This is a cracking little pocketbook about the environment, and the practical steps that anyone can take to safeguard it. It is written from a British perspective but contains a lot of information that is very valid for American readers.

There are sections to the book - the first discussing and explaining the greenhouse effect, and questioning if global warming could be a hoax. The second looks at our individual carbon footprint, with heating, electricity, gas usage, transport, food and the workplace.

The third section looks at sustainability, about generating your own energy and painting alternative futures based on the decisions we make today.

It's a well written and thoughtful book with lots of practical advice. Having read through it when I first bought the book, I have turned to it on several occasions as a reference book and have recently just read it from cover to cover for a second time.

An American edition of this book would be an improvement, which is why I have only given this book four stars rather than five, but I would recommend this book as a first starting point for anyone wishing to understand climate change and find practical ways of reducing their environmental impact.
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