Carbon Counter

Carbon Counter
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What effect are you having on the environment? If you buy Kenyan green beans what is the CO2 cost? What about your journey to work, your fridge or your clothes? The Gem Carbon Counter is your portable instant green reckoner.This handy little book includes:• Introduction by Mark Lynas author of Hide Tide: News from a Warming World• Welcome to the Greenhouse: Explains what the Greenhouse effect actually is, all the issues surrounding global warming and your carbon footprint?• Your Carbon Footprint: Measure your own carbon footprint covering all aspects of your life from your food shopping to your work, holidays and clothes. Starting with your home gas and electricity supplies and usage, the handy green reckoner takes you through each part of your life and helps you add up the impact you are making on the environment. So, in turn, it allows you to identify the key parts of your life which you’ll need to adapt to reduce your carbon footprint: from which coffee you drink to how often you go on holiday.• Sustainability: How do you measure up in comparison to the average person’s carbon footprint? What can you do to generate your own energy and therefore reduce your footprint and what sort of targets can you set yourself?• Helpful Appendices: Includes information on carbon emissions for journeys by car, train and plane. A list of corporate companies, their emissions and what they are doing to reduce their carbon footprint so that as a consumer, you can make decisions on who you support. A helpful carbon diary where you can record your carbon footprint for the year. Useful websites where you can read more about green issues.

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Mark Lynas. Carbon Counter

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

I Welcome to the greenhouse. THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

WHAT ARE FOSSIL FUELS?

SOURCES OF GREENHOUSE GASES

GLOBAL WARMING TODAY

Global warming impacts so far

GLOBAL WARMING OVER THE NEXT 100 YEARS

One degree

Two degrees

THE GULF STREAM

Three degrees

Four degrees

Five degrees

Six degrees

TWO DEGREES – THE TARGET

WHAT IS A CARBON FOOTPRINT?

Some comparisons between countries

Contraction and convergence

Kyoto and international negotiations

CARBON RATIONING

THE GREAT ENERGY DEBATE

Nuclear

Wind

Coal

Gas

Energy facts for the UK

Energy sector breakdown

WHAT IF GLOBAL WARMING IS A ‘HOAX’?

USING THIS BOOK

II Your carbon footprint. HOUSEHOLD EMISSIONS. GAS

Space heating and hot water

Insulation

External solid wall insulation

Internal solid wall insulation

Floor insulation

Draught-proofing

Your boiler

Keeping cool

Calculate your gas carbon footprint

Your oil, coal and wood footprint

ELECTRICITY

Working out your electrical carbon footprint

Counting electrical carbon

Reducing your electricity use

Lighting

Standby

TRANSPORT EMISSIONS. CARS

Calculate your car’s carbon footprint

Cutting your car carbs

Hybrids

Biofuels

Diesel

Liquid petroleum gas (LPG)

Electric cars

Alternatives to the car. Cycling

Public transport

MOTORBIKES

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Total number of miles travelled by bus:

Total number of miles travelled by train:

Total number of miles travelled by underground:

Total number of miles travelled by boat:

AVIATION

CONSUMPTION

FOOD MILES

Organic food

Growing your own

Waste

WORKPLACE

III Sustainability. YOUR CARBON TOTAL

GENERATING YOUR OWN ENERGY

SOLAR HOT WATER

What you’ll need:

What you’ll get:

Contacts

The DIY option

SOLAR ELECTRICITY

Pros:

Cons:

Contact

GRANTS

MICRO WIND TURBINES

Pros:

Cons:

MICRO HYDRO

GROUND SOURCE HEAT PUMP

What you need:

What you get:

Contacts

WOOD-BURNING STOVES

Contact

TWO VIEWS OF THE FUTURE – SOLAR VS FOSSIL FUELS. Greenpeace view – solar power

Conventional view – fossil fuels remain dominant

DECENTRALIZED POWER – THE FUTURE?

VISIONS OF A SUSTAINABLE BRITAIN

Appendices

APPENDIX C: Corporate carbon

USEFUL ADDRESSES. Energy Saving Trust

Carbon Trust

Climate Outreach and Information Network

Centre for Alternative Technology

Climate Care

Carbon Neutral Company

EU carbon calculator

Low-impact Living Initiative

National Energy Foundation

OneWorld Carbon Countdown

Friends of the Earth – Living

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FURTHER READING

Your carbon diary

Useful websites

INDEX

Copyright

About the Publisher

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Cover Page

Title Page

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Tip: El Niño is the name given to a reversal of currents in the east Pacific Ocean, which brings warm water to the coast of Peru, sparking rainfall in areas that are normally desert. In contrast, the lush forests of Papua New Guinea, where the rain usually falls, bake in drought. El Niño, in fact, changes weather across the globe.

(Note: this list is a very potted summary of a book called Six Degrees, also by Mark Lynas, published in March 2007 by Fourth Estate.)

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