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How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

365 Simple Ways to Save Energy, Resources and Money By Joanna Yarrow

6-3/4 x 5-1/2 in; 128 pp ; full-color images throughout
Paperback
Published in March, 2008
ISBN 081186393X
ISBN13 9780811863933

$12.95  

How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint -- How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint is the world citizen's guide to pushing back the advance of global warming. This colorful handbook offers 500 practical, easily achievable ideas that conserve energy, prevent pollution, and save money. Did you know that unplugging appliances and cell phone chargers when not in use can reduce electricity bills by 10 percent? Or that recycling just one glass bottle saves enough power to run a computer for 30 minutes? Whether the subject is jet travel, dishwashing, or any of the 50 topics in the book, surprising statistics and innovative graphics will inspire action and demonstrate that simple habits can lead to big results.

Joanna Yarrow is a United Kingdom-based expert on sustainable living and the author of 1,001 Ways to Save the Earth. She is a frequent media commentator on environmental issues.