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Buy The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet by Jonathan Harrington available and for sale on Brightsurf
| View Larger Image | The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet
by Jonathan Harrington
| | List Price: | $15.95 | | Price: | $10.85 | | You Save: | $5.10 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 499710 | | Studio: | Earthscan Publications Ltd. | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 160 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | Earthscan Publications Ltd. |
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Product Description
We live in a world of excess. We consume too much of everything—food, clothes, cars, bricks and mortar. Our bingeing is often so extreme that it threatens our own health and well being. And we are not the only ones who are getting sick.
The Earth—which provides the food, air, water and land that sustains us—is also under severe pressure. Gluttonous consumption of nature's trans-fats—carbon-based fossil fuels, deforestation and unsustainable resource use—is disrupting the global temperature-regulating machine that mother nature has carefully maintained for millions of years. Try as she may to keep from running a fever, the environmental reengineering wrought by six billion people, like a force of nature, is warming our world. At some point, something just has to give. We either take steps to put our personal lifestyles and planetary systems back into balance or we suffer the consequences.
So, what does any unhealthy overweight person do when the doctor tells him or her that they are eating themselves into an early grave? Go on a diet!
The Climate Diet offers an optimistic, easy to understand and engaging message. It has never been easier for families to cut back on their use of fossil fuels and protect the climate all while saving money. By using the familiar language of weight loss, The Climate Diet explains climate change concepts, problems and solutions in ways that anyone can easily understand. Following a five-step climate diet plan, families will be able to count their carbon calories, learn how to reduce them and aim for one of four different levels of achievement: Participant, Bronze, Silver and Gold, each of which can be tailored to fit almost any lifestyle.
This is the must-have guide to the most important diet ever. If we all participate, the greenhouse gas emissions bulge can be beaten, leaving us with a slim healthy planet now and for the future. |
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Sure cure for climate-change helplessness and eco-despair 
The nonprofit I volunteer for is planning to do some sustainability workshops, and we were all set to use the excellent Union of Concerned Scientist's (UCS) book _Consumers Guide to Effective Environmental Choices_ as a reference. Then I literally stumbled over this title at the checkout counter of my local independent bookseller, and we are now re-doing the workshop to refer people to _The Climate Diet_ instead.
While I like the no-nonsense presentation and research-based approach of the UCS book, Jonathan Harrington does the UCS one better by providing a great analogy, fun motivational techniques, and completely updated and expanded energy efficiency and cost/benefit statistics.
What's great about this book is that it brings together all those energy-saving tips you've been hearing about ever since you paid your first utility bill, shows you why you really should care (especially with energy prices what they are today), and then helps you prioritize according to your goals, interest level, budget, and so on.
As I go through my house doing yet another energy audit, I'm finding things I've sloughed off before. Now though it's turned into a kind of game. One thing leads to another until I find myself looking everywhere for those energy savings and carbon footprint reductions.
Why do I like _The Climate Diet_?
Because it's fun, it's good for the planet, and it saves me money!
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