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Achieving a low-carbon household: a guide for the better off

by Bob Whitmarsh
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781542849951
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 10.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 254 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sustainable Living

This is a book about how all individuals and households can change their lifestyles to reduce their carbon emissions. The book is targeted at the better off in particular because they have disproportionally large carbon footprints. Two chapters explain the science and consequences of climate change and the background to our use of energy. The book explains how households can measure their own carbon footprint. Lots of ideas are provided in a structured way according to whether they depend on simple changes in behaviour, some moderate expenditure or installing more expensive renewables. In separate chapters, there are suggestions for how to cut back on emissions from the use of electricity and gas in the home and from getting about (including travelling abroad). Another chapter describes some actual examples of extensively retrofitted and purpose-built low-carbon homes which the author visited. Ways to avoid emitting yet more greenhouse gases, when spending money that's been saved by using less energy, are presented. The final chapter discusses how everyone can, and should, decide to take responsibility for their own impact on climate change and to work towards changing the norms of behaviour in today's world.

Bob Whitmarsh is a retired scientist who spent 40 years doing research in marine geophysics. He has a first degree in geology and a PhD in geophysics. For most of his professional career he worked for the UK's Natural Environment Research Council. He is the author or co-author of over one hundred scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications. He is a Visiting Professor at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton. Since he retired Bob Whitmarsh has become passionate about climate change and how society is meeting the challenge of mitigating its effects. He is active in his local community climate change action group, of which he is a trustee, and he led their work on the science of climate change for a number of years. He has been saving energy in his home for more than 45 years and has ten-year's experience of working, and writing, on the subject of this book.

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