How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything

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Greystone Books, 1. apr. 2011 - 256 síður
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.
 

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Introduction
1
A quick guide to carbonand carbon footprints
5
Under 10 grams
16
10 grams to 100 grams
24
100 grams to 1 kilo 22 pounds
37
1 kilo to 10 kilos22 pounds to 22 pounds
77
10 kilos to 100 kilos20 pounds to 200 pounds
105
100 kilos 220 poundsto 1 ton
116
10 tons to 100 tons
139
100 tons to 1 million tons
149
1 million tons and beyond
157
More about food
175
Further information
183
Notes and references
196
Acknowledgments
224
Index
226

1 ton to 10 tons
129

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Mike Berners-Lee is founding director of Small World Consulting, an associate company of Lancaster University (UK) specializing in organizational responses to climate change. His research, often in partnership with Lancaster University or the Crichton Carbon Centre, includes the development of leading footprint tools based on environmental input-output analysis, life cycle analysis, and hybrid methodologies. Berners-Lee's commercial client work is focused primarily on enabling realistic and credible understanding of greenhouse gas impacts for the purposes of practical decision making. Berners-Lee's clients include major supermarkets, architecture firms, and numerous small- and medium-sized businesses interested in reducing their carbon footprint, including farms, hotels, and breweries.

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