The Climate Diet
50 Simple Ways to Trim Your Carbon Footprint
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- USD 4.99
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- USD 4.99
Publisher Description
“Useful and relevant. . . . Greenberg’s writing is clear and concise. Each section starts with easy tips . . . then wades into bigger, trickier concepts.” —New York Times Book Review
A celebrated writer on food and sustainability offers fifty straightforward, impactful rules for climate-friendly living
We all understand just how dire the circumstances facing our planet are and that we all need to do our part to stem the tide of climate change. When we look in the mirror, we can admit that we desperately need to go on a climate diet. But the task of cutting down our carbon emissions feels overwhelming and the discipline required hard to summon. With The Climate Diet, award-winning food and environmental writer Paul Greenberg offers us the practical, accessible guide we all need. It contains fifty achievable steps we can take to live our daily lives in a way that's friendlier to the planet--from what we eat, how we live at home, how we travel, and how we lobby businesses and elected officials to do the right thing. Chock-full of simple yet revelatory guidance, The Climate Diet empowers us to cast aside feelings of helplessness and start making positive changes for the good of our planet.
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America needs "to go on a climate diet," advises science writer Greenberg (Goodbye Phone, Hello World) in this accessible and practical guide to no longer being "carbon obese." For starters, Greenberg suggest eating less meat and cheese, as raising cattle is a carbon dioxide-intense endeavor. Vegetables, meanwhile, when purchased from local farms, keep small businesses running and "save land from real estate development, which can in and of itself be good for emissions reduction." He also offers smaller-scale tips on the food front, such as "make oysters your appetizer instead of shrimp" (farmed shrimp are an emissions nightmare). Branching out from food, Greenberg proposes cutting ties with big banks that invest substantially in fossil fuels, and putting money into clean energy companies and "institutions moving toward renewables." Readers can also invest in community solar projects and replace old appliances with more efficient ones. Though not especially earth-shattering, Greenberg's recommendations are straightforward, and his conviction will inspire: never, he exhorts, "should we lie down before this rising sea of troubles" and "accept the futility of opposing them." Those who are eager to do their part to fight climate change but are unsure where to start would do well to pick this up.
