Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

Lloyd Alter has written 13,710 posts for TreeHugger and about 1,000 on the Mother Nature Network His work attracts about a half-million pageviews per month. He has a dedicated following for the daily TreeHugger Newsletter with 150,000 subscribers. In order to meet the International Panel on Climate Change recommendations to stop climate warming, each person must emit 2.5 tonnes of CO2 per person per year or less. In an attempt to model what this might look like in real life, the author embarked on a 12 month project to live on only 2.5 tonnes of carbon This book is a manual for living the 1.5-degree lifestyle, looking at the choices and trade-offs that we have to make to get there. The author looks at the carbon cost of everything that we do in our lives, to help people make choices about what makes the most impact on climate change The author takes us on a journey following hs daily activities and own daily footprint The author shares personal anecdotes like how he calculated the cost of his family's favorite take out meal of fried chicken and the surprising results that came from that. It's a model that can influence our personal lives, but can also guide policy, from urban planning to agriculture The author interviews others and looks at their activities in an attempt to find out other people's successes, failures and challenges. Differs from other books on low carbon lifestyles Includes detailed explanations and analysis of what embodied carbon which most books about reducing carbon footprints ignore It explains what embodied carbon is, how to measure it and why it is important which has been mostly ignored Helps readers understand where our carbon emissions come from, Provides tools for measuring consumption Alter is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Architecture with the Alpha Rho Chi Medal

Audience

Those looking to live a greener lifestyle and who want to learn ways to change their lifestyle for the biggest impact. This includes readers of Treehugger and the Mother Nature Network.