| View Larger Image | Tracking Your Carbon Footprint: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Inventorying Greenhouse Gas Emissions | Paperbackby Judith Purman (Author)
| List Price: | $10.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | IUniverse | | Page Count: | 72 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 24, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 714,593th |
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Product Description
Knowing your carbon footprint is a hot button issue today. Consumers now expect their employers, government, and schools to embrace the notion that one's style of living can negatively affect the environment today and for future generations. Likewise, homeowners, businesses, and organizations are moving to more sustainable modes of operating, not just because it is the right thing to do, but because sustainability, being "green," and reducing your carbon footprint have value in the marketplace. Sustainability is marketable and bank-able, whether in dollars saved, in revenues generated, or in public relations impact.Tracking Your Carbon Footprint: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Inventorying Greenhouse Gas Emissions will introduce you to the basics of global climate change, the what, why and how to inventory your emissions, how to use your inventory to set goals and reduce emissions, and how to determine whether or not it makes sense for you to generate carbon credits. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 2.5 based on 2 reviews)
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False Advertising by S. B. Scott (NY, NY)  1 Stars
May 13, 2009
This "book" is only 40 pages long. I bought it expecting, as the cover indicates, a step-by-step guide to inventorying and calculating my GHG output and that of my company. Out of 40 pages, the actual pages devoted to tracking a carbon footprint are about 20. These the author has padded with large print and large charts. The actual section titled "Calculate GHG Emissions" is only three pages long, and doesn't describe how to do so. Instead, it indicates websites that will help you. Overall, this is a very general book geared toward the most environmentally clueless. A quick search on the internet would get you more information than ten bucks for this book. It appears that's exactly how the author wrote it.
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Best for homeowners by M. Jamison (Washington, D.C.)  4 Stars
February 15, 2009
This is an excellent book with many practical suggestions that will not only help the environment, but will also save you money on things such as heating/cooling. The only criticism I have is that, as an apartment dweller, I am unable to implement many of their suggestions, which would require me to alter the apartment. We are able to follow some of the guidelines, but homeowners will definitely benefit more.
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