ISBN 978-1-84407-910-0. “How to live a low-carbon life” second edition was published by Earthscan in 2010. The paperback gives you 300 easy-read pages consisting of 13 Chapters, Notes, Acknowledgements and Index. As an update upon his earlier 2006 book you can probably copy everything from the review, four years ago, and paste it here. So we’ll focus on what is new or different. First things first, whereas the original spoke about getting carbon footprints down from 12.5 tonnes per person to 3 tonnes, the new edition talks about getting from 14 tonnes down to 2. This difference comes from updated accounting which now includes the embodied energy for imported goods. Continue reading →

ISBN 978 1 84407 426 6. Published in 2006 by Earthscan. Written by Chris Goodall and subtitled “The Individual’s Guide to Stopping Climate Change”. Chris lives not far away from us in Oxfordshire, England and I have been in contact with him personally before I read his book. I questioned some of the simplistic advice on his web-site but, as he pointed out, the book goes into far more detail and the web site is not indicative. Hence I would like to say only nice things about Chris’s work. Indeed it is an impressive source book for us ‘low-carbon freaks’ in the United Kingdom. Without a doubt Chris is an extremely smart guy – his Harvard Business School MBA and Green Party Candidacy are testimony to this. Continue reading →