- ISBN13: 9780963032720
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Product Description
Winner of the 2007 Independent Publisher "Most Likely to Save the Planet" Book Award Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds is a book that is destined to become a movement. Arriving just in time to meet the groundswell of demand created by An Inconvenient Truth, it guides readers through an accessible step-by-step program for personal CO2-reduction that leaves them empowered and inspired at the difference they can make toward the issue of our ... More >>
Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds--Be Part of the Global Warming Solution!
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I have not received these items, they seem to have gotten lost in the mail. it says they were delivered, but they cannot be found in the building where they were shipped. Please advise on how to get the books, can we get them resent? we were charged money for them, but still havent seen them.
Leah Elimeliah
Rating: 1 / 5
Never received it so thats why the bad rating…..other than that i hear its a really helpful book.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a good reference for introducing the average person to the realities of climate change. Since most of my knowledge comes from reading books on the subject, there is too much information to coordinate – this booklet puts things in good order. It would be particularly useful for organizing local groups. I rate this 3 out of 5 stars.
Rating: 1 / 5
In our town, Yorktown, NY, we formed a group to go through the Low Carbon Diet. Over a period of six weeks or so, we met four times. We cataloged our energy usage, discussed what steps we were taking, and at the end calculated the total savings. For our group of seven households we were able to save enough energy to reduce our carbon emissions by 60,000 pounds per year. This is about equal to the total for a single household.
You can do this by yourself with the help of the book. However, the group dynamic works very well. Some of the steps to take were obvious, e.g., replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, CFLs. Other steps were not so obvious but equally effective. I have found that I can wash my clothes in cold water. All it took was to push the cold button on the washing machine. The results are good. The clothes are clean. Another step was to put my TV, cable box, cable modem and wireless router on a power strip. Turn it off at the end of the day; turn it on to watch TV or use the Internet. This saves three-quarters of the standby electricity for those devices.
Eventually, I am sure that our elected representatives will enact legislation to reduce our national carbon emissions. However, we do not have to wait for them to act. A few easy steps, documented in the Low Carbon Diet, will enable each one of us to achieve a fifteen percent reduction. We did it. The money savings are immediate and real, but in the end if we can convince our neighbors to do the same we will have taken a real step towards slowing climate change.
Rating: 5 / 5
I read many environmental books, most of which scare you with the doom and gloom before attempting to give you solutions. This book gives you the tools you need to make a difference on a worldwide problem. I highly recommend reading it and unlike most diet books – practice these tips the rest of your life.
Rating: 5 / 5