Description
Our world is getting hotter, and it's our fault. Our addiction to fossil fuels is destroying not only our ancient planet, but our modern civilization. How can we protect our fragile ecosystems while preserving our way of life? How can we respond to climate change deniers who mock the fact that environmental activists use fossil fuels? In short, how can your average concerned citizen live a normal life in a carbon-based economy without being justifiably called a hypocrite? In The Carbon Code, conservation biologist Brett Favaro answers these thorny questions, offering simple strategies to help you reduce your carbon footprint-without abandoning common sense. Favaro's Carbon Code of Conduct is based on the four Rs: Reduce, Replace, Refine, and Rehabilitate. After outlining the scientific basics of climate change and explaining the logic of the code he prescribes, the author describes carbon-friendly technologies and behaviors we can adopt in our daily lives. However, he acknowledges that individual action, while vital, is insufficient. To achieve global sustainability, he insists that we must make the fight against climate change "go viral" through conspicuous conservation. The Carbon Code is a tool of empowerment. People don't need to be climate change experts to be part of the solution! In this book, Brett Favaro shows you how to take ownership of your carbon footprint and adopt a lifestyle of conspicuous conservation that will spur governments and corporations to do the same. Climate-friendly action is the best decision on every dimension-economics, health and well-being, and social justice. Saving the planet is, after all, about saving ourselves. The Carbon Code provides a framework to do this, and helps you to become a hero in the fight against climate change.
Brett Favaro's timely book is a clearly written and motivational guide to what each of us can do to address climate change-now-by taking simple actions in our everyday lives. It clearly and irrefutably makes the case for urgent action, demonstrates what individuals can do now, and empowers the reader with facts and arguments to persuade others to act. Essential reading-not just for environmentalists, but for everyone. -- David Miller, President and CEO, WWF Canada; former chair, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
About the Author
Brett Favaro is a research scientist at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He lectures widely on applying scientific approaches to creating a sustainable future for the planet.
Reviews
Less of a harangue and more of a how-to guide, the book explains in refreshingly forthright terms how technological advances are making it easier and cheaper to be green.
-Financial Times
A critically important contribution to our on-going national debate about how to deal with climate change (now an even more pressing issue given President Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the Paris accords and surrender of world leadership on the issue) Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero is an urgently necessary and needed addition to both community and academic library Environmental Studies collections in general, and the Climate Change supplemental studies lists of students and non-specialists general readers with an interest in the subject.
-Midwest Book Review
. . . useful and unique. . . this would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
-The Canadian Field-Naturalist
Favaro provides clear analyses of the issues surrounding consumption of resources . . . Recommended.
-Choice
This would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
-Canadian Field Naturalist
The Carbon Code is a wise, carefully optimistic book. Let's hope it is widely read and that individuals and organizations take the Carbon Code to heart.
-An Outside Chance
This readable, passionate, and rational effort covers diverse aspects of lowering carbon emissions. The author is a marine biologist with a deep understanding and personal instinct for systems thinking and global concern. I loved the book and it deserves a wide audience.
-Quarterly Review of Biology
Favaro offers a range of tips to help wean us off the frequent-flying habit.
-Noted
The Carbon Code is a manual for action . . . it is a useful compendium of state-of-the-art actions that just about anyone can take to reduce one's carbon footprint.
-Terry M. Gray, Colorado State University, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
Book Information
ISBN 9781421422534
Author Brett Favaro
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 386g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm
Brett Favaro's timely book is a clearly written and motivational guide to what each of us can do to address climate change-now-by taking simple actions in our everyday lives. It clearly and irrefutably makes the case for urgent action, demonstrates what individuals can do now, and empowers the reader with facts and arguments to persuade others to act. Essential reading-not just for environmentalists, but for everyone. -- David Miller, President and CEO, WWF Canada; former chair, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
About the Author
Brett Favaro is a research scientist at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He lectures widely on applying scientific approaches to creating a sustainable future for the planet.
Reviews
Less of a harangue and more of a how-to guide, the book explains in refreshingly forthright terms how technological advances are making it easier and cheaper to be green.
-Financial Times
A critically important contribution to our on-going national debate about how to deal with climate change (now an even more pressing issue given President Trump's unilateral withdrawal from the Paris accords and surrender of world leadership on the issue) Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero is an urgently necessary and needed addition to both community and academic library Environmental Studies collections in general, and the Climate Change supplemental studies lists of students and non-specialists general readers with an interest in the subject.
-Midwest Book Review
. . . useful and unique. . . this would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
-The Canadian Field-Naturalist
Favaro provides clear analyses of the issues surrounding consumption of resources . . . Recommended.
-Choice
This would be an ideal book for anyone who would like to learn about climate change and what they can do as an individual to lower their carbon footprint.
-Canadian Field Naturalist
The Carbon Code is a wise, carefully optimistic book. Let's hope it is widely read and that individuals and organizations take the Carbon Code to heart.
-An Outside Chance
This readable, passionate, and rational effort covers diverse aspects of lowering carbon emissions. The author is a marine biologist with a deep understanding and personal instinct for systems thinking and global concern. I loved the book and it deserves a wide audience.
-Quarterly Review of Biology
Favaro offers a range of tips to help wean us off the frequent-flying habit.
-Noted
The Carbon Code is a manual for action . . . it is a useful compendium of state-of-the-art actions that just about anyone can take to reduce one's carbon footprint.
-Terry M. Gray, Colorado State University, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
Book Information
ISBN 9781421422534
Author Brett Favaro
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Weight(grams) 386g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 21mm
