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| Author | : Joanna Yarrow |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
| ISBN | : 9781844836611 |
"How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and save money. Did you know that unplugging appliances and cell phone chargers when not in use can reduce electricity bills by 10 percent? Or that recycling just one glass bottle saves enough power to run a computer for 30 minutes? Whether the subject is jet travel, dish washing, or any of the 50 topics in the book, surprising statistics and innovative graphics will inspire action and demonstrate that simple habits can lead to big results"--Amazon.com
| Author | : Mike Berners-Lee |
| Publisher | : Greystone Books |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2011-04-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1553658329 |
Part green-lifestyle guide, part popular science, How Bad Are Bananas? is the first book to provide the information we need to make carbon-savvy purchases and informed lifestyle choices and to build carbon considerations into our everyday thinking. The book puts our decisions into perspective with entries for the big things (the World Cup, volcanic eruptions, the Iraq war) as well as the small (email, ironing, a glass of beer). And it covers the range from birth (the carbon footprint of having a child) to death (the carbon impact of cremation). Packed full of surprises — a plastic bag has the smallest footprint of any item listed, while a block of cheese is bad news — the book continuously informs, delights, and engages the reader. Solidly researched and referenced, the easily digestible figures, statistics, charts, and graphs (including a section on the carbon footprint of various foods) will encourage discussion and help people to make up their own minds about their consumer choices.
| Author | : Ann Colson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 46 |
| Release | : 2015-04-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781511592321 |
Make Your Contribution to a Greener Earth - Reduce Your Carbon Footprint Now Have you ever wondered how your life has affected the environment that you live in? Have you heard the term 'Carbon Footprint' and been unable to understand the concept in its totality? Are you conscious of the fact that your lifestyle could have led to the depletion of resources that are vital to life on this planet? Well then here is the answer to all your queries. This book aims to educate readers on the various aspects of Carbon Footprint and help find easy and implementable measures to reduce the impact as far as possible. The objective of this book is to help simplify the scientific jargon and make it easy to understand for everyone so that all readers are able to realize and relate to this problem that is staring in the face of mankind. Here is a preview of what you will learn in the book: The concept of Carbon Footprint Means to measure your carbon footprint The significance of Carbon Footprint as an individual as well as a Human being. Understanding what the invisible increments to Carbon Footprint are. The exact short term measures that you can adopt to reduce the footprint. The long term measures that we all must initiate and implement in order to deal with the problem on a global scale. The strange yet real facts about Carbon Footprint that you wouldn't have heard before. With this book you will be armed to tackle the problem right from your homes and be able to educate your kids to take steps that will their footprints low. The simple yet proven strategies discussed in the book are aimed at creating awareness on the basics of the problem and help you take small incremental steps in the right direction, right now.It is our duty towards our kids to keep the earth green for them as we inherited it. That is why understanding identifying carbon footprint assumes such vital significance in today's world. Unless you can pin point the specific small things in your everyday lives that add up to the footprint you will not be able to reduce it substantially. This is why the book is so handy for the common man who wants to see a better world for the future generations.Why this book is special Easy language and simplified terms for better understanding. Examples from everyday affairs to help you identify the culprits. Simple and easily implementable steps for you to get started in reducing your Carbon Footprint. Macro level view for a more comprehensive understanding of the global nature of the problem. Great learning value for parents as well as kids. So what are you waiting for? Take action now and do your bit to save our planet for our kids. Start your journey by laying hands on this invaluable source of information. Download your copy today!
| Author | : Amanda Bishop |
| Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780778729181 |
Describes the concept of a "carbon footprint" and describes ways that people can conserve energy and protect the environment.
| Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 207 |
| Release | : 2018-06-18 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309471699 |
Climate change poses many challenges that affect society and the natural world. With these challenges, however, come opportunities to respond. By taking steps to adapt to and mitigate climate change, the risks to society and the impacts of continued climate change can be lessened. The National Climate Assessment, coordinated by the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is a mandated report intended to inform response decisions. Required to be developed every four years, these reports provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of climate change impacts available for the United States, making them a unique and important climate change document. The draft Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) report reviewed here addresses a wide range of topics of high importance to the United States and society more broadly, extending from human health and community well-being, to the built environment, to businesses and economies, to ecosystems and natural resources. This report evaluates the draft NCA4 to determine if it meets the requirements of the federal mandate, whether it provides accurate information grounded in the scientific literature, and whether it effectively communicates climate science, impacts, and responses for general audiences including the public, decision makers, and other stakeholders.
| Author | : Jeanne Nagle |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2008-08-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1435848144 |
This title in the Your Carbon Footprint series discusses practical tips and strategies for students who want to reduce the impact of their schools on the environment. The relevant science is explained, but the real focus is on hands-on activities and practices that will help individuals make a difference.
| Author | : Bill Gates |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2021-02-16 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0385546149 |
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 235 |
| Release | : 2015-06-17 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0309305322 |
The signals are everywhere that our planet is experiencing significant climate change. It is clear that we need to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from our atmosphere if we want to avoid greatly increased risk of damage from climate change. Aggressively pursuing a program of emissions abatement or mitigation will show results over a timescale of many decades. How do we actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to make a bigger difference more quickly? As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses CDR, the carbon dioxide removal of greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and sequestration of it in perpetuity. Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration introduces possible CDR approaches and then discusses them in depth. Land management practices, such as low-till agriculture, reforestation and afforestation, ocean iron fertilization, and land-and-ocean-based accelerated weathering, could amplify the rates of processes that are already occurring as part of the natural carbon cycle. Other CDR approaches, such as bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration, direct air capture and sequestration, and traditional carbon capture and sequestration, seek to capture CO2 from the atmosphere and dispose of it by pumping it underground at high pressure. This book looks at the pros and cons of these options and estimates possible rates of removal and total amounts that might be removed via these methods. With whatever portfolio of technologies the transition is achieved, eliminating the carbon dioxide emissions from the global energy and transportation systems will pose an enormous technical, economic, and social challenge that will likely take decades of concerted effort to achieve. Climate Intervention: Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration will help to better understand the potential cost and performance of CDR strategies to inform debate and decision making as we work to stabilize and reduce atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
| Author | : Sarah B. David |
| Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2008-08-15 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1435848128 |
This book explores how to live green at home. Describes straightforward ways for people to change their habits and increase sustainability.
| Author | : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu |
| Publisher | : Butterworth-Heinemann |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 2017-09-20 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 012812850X |
Environmental Carbon Footprints: Industrial Case Studies provides a wide range of industrial case-studies, beginning with textiles, energy systems and bio-fuels. Each footprint is associated with background information, scientific consensus and the reason behind its invention, methodological framework, assessment checklist, calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations. More importantly, applications of each indicator/framework in various industrial sectors and their associated challenges are presented. As case studies are the most flexible of all research designs, this book allows researchers to retain the holistic characteristics of real-life events while investigating empirical events. Includes case studies from various industries, such as textiles, energy systems and conventional and bio-fuels Provides the calculation tool/technique, applications, challenges and limitations for determining carbon footprints on an industry by industry basis Presents the background information, scientific consensus and reason behind each case study
