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The Economical Environmentalist

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The Economical Environmentalist

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The Economical Environmentalist book

My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Cost

The Economical Environmentalist

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The Economical Environmentalist book

My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Cost
ByPrashant Vaze
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 14 October 2009
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849774604
Pages 336
eBook ISBN 9781849774604
Subjects Built Environment, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability
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Vaze, P. (2009). The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Cost (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849774604

ABSTRACT

Reducing your carbon emissions in an economic down-turn can be challenging, but saving the planet doesn't have to cost you more. Tough economic times need not relegate concerns for the planet to the back burner. The author is an environmental economist trying to live a low-carbon life in London. He worked for 15 years in the UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and the Department of the Environment. So far so good. But he has kids. A family to visit in India. A hectic job. In distilling and building on his own experience of trying to live a low carbon life, he helps us navigate the choices that confront us all - families, singletons, pensioners - when making decisions about what to eat, what to buy, how to travel and how to keep warm in the era of climate change and economic turmoil. He works out the sums and lets us know which choices will make the biggest difference, and which are false savings. His book is an irreverent but seriously rigorous reference guide to low-cost, low-carbon living for everyone - in any location - in tough times. It's brimming with up-to-date information on current and future technologies, tips and ideas for every budget on how to spend the least for the biggest carbon reduction gain and insight from the experiences of people trying to live low-carbon lives.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|32 pages

The Economic and Environmental Challenges

chapter 3|54 pages

From Field to Fork: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Eating

chapter 4|52 pages

Getting from A to B: Reducing Emissions from Travel

chapter 5|56 pages

Keeping Your Home Warm

chapter 6|40 pages

Our Friends Electric

chapter 7|38 pages

Waste Not, Want Not

chapter 8|30 pages

Travel and Leisure

chapter 9|22 pages

Carbon Offsetting, Communities and Social Change

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