Description
Book SynopsisThe Carbon Code provides a framework to do this, and helps you to become a hero in the fight against climate change.
Trade ReviewLess of a harangue and more of a how-to guide, the book explains in refreshingly forthright terms how technological advances are making it easier and cheaper to be green.
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Financial TimesA critically important contribution to our on-going national debate about how to deal with climate change (now an even more pressing issue given President Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the Paris accords and surrender of world leadership on the issue) Exceptionally well written, organized and presented,
The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero is an urgently necessary and needed addition to both community and academic library Environmental Studies collections in general, and the Climate Change supplemental studies lists of students and non-specialists general readers with an interest in the subject.
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Midwest Book Review. . . useful and unique. . . this would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
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The Canadian Field-NaturalistFavaro provides clear analyses of the issues surrounding consumption of resources . . . Recommended.
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ChoiceThis would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
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Canadian Field NaturalistThe Carbon Code is a wise, carefully optimistic book. Let’s hope it is widely read and that individuals and organizations take the Carbon Code to heart.
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An Outside ChanceThis readable, passionate, and rational effort covers diverse aspects of lowering carbon emissions. The author is a marine biologist with a deep understanding and personal instinct for systems thinking and global concern. I loved the book and it deserves a wide audience.
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Quarterly Review of BiologyFavaro offers a range of tips to help wean us off the frequent-flying habit.
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NotedThe Carbon Code is a manual for action . . . it is a useful compendium of state-of-the-art actions that just about anyone can take to reduce one's carbon footprint.
—Terry M. Gray, Colorado State University,
Perspectives on Science and Christian FaithTable of ContentsContents Introduction Part IChapter 1 The Cost of CarbonChapter 2 Solutions Start with YouChapter 3 The Carbon Code of Conduct Part II Living by the CodeChapter 4 ElectricityChapter 5 TransportationChapter 6 Adopting a Low-Carbon DietChapter 7 Long-Range Travel Part III Sharing the Carbon CodeChapter 8 Winning the ConversationChapter 9 Policies for a Pro-Climate FutureChapter 10 Bringing it All Together
