How Bad Are Bananas?

2011-04-01 Science

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Release : 2011-04-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 329/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Bad Are Bananas? written by Mike Berners-Lee. This book was released on 2011-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

How Bad Are Bananas?

2011 House & Home

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Release : 2011
Genre : House & Home
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Bad Are Bananas? written by Mike Berners-Lee. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the carbon footprint--the carbon emissions used to manufacture and transport--everyday items, including paper bags and imported produce, and provides information to help build carbon considerations into everyday purchases.

How Bad Are Bananas?

2020-09-03 Science

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Release : 2020-09-03
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book How Bad Are Bananas? written by Mike Berners-Lee. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is terrific. I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable all at the same time.' Bill Bryson How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life - Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners-Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.

Banana

2008 Business & Economics

Author : Dan Koeppel
Release : 2008
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 385/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Banana written by Dan Koeppel. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Award-winning journalist Dan Koeppel navigates across the planet and throughout history, telling the cultural and scientific story of the world's most ubiquitous fruit"--Page 4 of cover.

There Is No Planet B

2019-02-28 Science

Author : Mike Berners-Lee
Release : 2019-02-28
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 942/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book There Is No Planet B written by Mike Berners-Lee. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do? Fortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh. And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet.

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