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Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle - Lloyd Alter

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

Why Individual Climate Action Matters More than Ever

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
2021
New Society Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-86571-964-4 (ISBN)
CHF 29,90 inkl. MwSt
Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do and shows how to slash your own carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year by choosing a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.
Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff.

The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5 degrees and avert catastrophe. This means that many of us have to cut our individual carbon footprints by over 80% to 2.5 tonnes per person per year by 2030. But where to start?

Drawing on Lloyd Alter's journey to track his daily carbon emissions and live the 1.5 degree lifestyle, coverage includes:



What it looks like to live a rich and truly green life
From take-out food, to bikes and cars, to your internet usage – finding the big wins, ignoring the trivial, and spotting marketing ploys
The invisible embodied carbon baked into everything we own and why electric cars aren't the answer
How to start thinking about sufficiency rather than efficiency
The roles of individuals versus governments and corporations.

Grounded in meticulous research and yet accessible to all, Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle is a journey toward a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.

Lloyd Alter is a writer, public speaker, and former architect, developer, and inventor. He has published over 14,000 articles on Treehugger . He has become convinced that we just use too much of everything — too much space, too much land, too much food, too much fuel, too much money — and that the key to sustainability is to simply use less, what he calls Radical Sufficiency. He teaches sustainable design at Ryerson School of Interior Design and when not writing can often be found in his running shoes, on his bike, or in his 1989 Hudson single scull in Toronto, Canada.

Acknowledgments

The 1.5-Degree Lifestyle: Introduction


1. What's the 1.5-Degree Lifestyle?

2. Equity, Fairness, and the 2.5-Tonne Budget

3. Why Individual Actions Matter

4. Energy, Efficiency, and Sufficiency

5. What We Eat

6. How We Live

7. How We Move

8. Why We Buy

9. Conclusion: In Pursuit of Sufficiency


Notes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort Gabriola Island
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby Heimwerken / Do it yourself
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-86571-964-0 / 0865719640
ISBN-13 978-0-86571-964-4 / 9780865719644
Zustand Neuware
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