How To Do More For the Environment With a Little Help from Science
A Guide To Lowering Your Carbon Footprint, Improving Your Health, and Saving Money
by Luísa Borges
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Pub Date 3 Jun 2023 | Archive Date 2 Sep 2023
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Description
Do you want to do more to help mitigate climate change, but don’t know where to start? Do you have the motivation to improve your environmentally-friendly behaviours and habits, but neither the time nor energy to research how to do this? Do you feel overwhelmed with the amount of information out there and yet don’t know what to believe?
Then you’ve come to the right place! How to Do More for the Environment with a Little Help from Science is a handy guide aimed at identifying areas in your daily routine where positive changes can be made. In this scientifically-researched book, Dr. Luísa Borges succinctly summarises the most pertinent and up-to-date information relevant to your day-to-day life for ease of reference. She follows the concept of marginal gains, which is successfully adopted in sports, to dissect all you do at home into small, easy-to-understand parts and provides evidence-based tips and hacks on how to make improvements to each one of them. These include:
- how to adopt a healthy and planet-friendly diet;
- avoid food waste;
- decrease your consumption of clothes and energy;
- purge your home of synthetic cleaning products;
- travel in an eco-friendlier manner.
Progressive change to environmentally-friendly behaviours and making them a habit, will lower your carbon footprint. As a bonus, many changes can improve your health and, in some cases, save you money.
Whether you’re just starting to make positive changes, or already living a sustainable lifestyle but want to further reduce your carbon footprint, this is the guide for you.
Advance Praise
" ""The most appealing point is the author's narrative style. Not only was each chapter educational, but it was also interesting and exciting to read. The fun thing is how short and resourceful it is.""--Friederic Schröde, OnlineBookClub
""Her blend of scientific research and storytelling creates a captivating narrative that educates and inspires readers to take action for the environment.""-- Ram Uday Mahajan, OnlineBookClub
""This is a book I would strongly recommend. Using science, the book shows how individuals do have the power to create change and how, in combination, these changes combine to create a difference.""--Nicci Attfiled, Reedsy Discovery
""Amazon.com 5.0 out of 5 stars-- Making a difference one person at a time!
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2023
Are you looking for easy tips to improve your overall wellbeing and concurrently decrease a negative impact on the environment while saving money? Look no further, in this well researched book, the author, Luisa Borges, presents detailed information that is easily digestible by just about anyone who is searching to adopt a healthier lifestyle and contribute to a sustainable environment.""--Zeluc
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Available Editions
ISBN | 9783000752209 |
PRICE | US$3.81 (USD) |
PAGES | 157 |
Links
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Featured Reviews
How To Do More For the Environment With a Little Help from Science: A Guide To Lowering Your Carbon Footprint, Improving Your Health, and Saving Money is a book that goes through a plethora of information regarding diet, zero-waste, cleaning, clothing purchases, energy consumption, and transportation.
I found this book to be overall informative. There are plenty of things you can do to help ease your carbon footprint listed in the books and there are sources to back up whatever has been presented. My only issue with the book is that there wasn't really a mention of intersectionality more then a surface level understanding of it. The book never goes into detail about how some of the tips brought up in the story aren't possible for those who are disabled, below the poverty line, etc... The tips are described as being the best things you can do, while they should be instead described as being the best things you can do if they are within your capability.