Ocean Book of the Month
Every month, The Ocean Project highlights a book focused on our blue planet or environmental sustainability. Books for all age groups will be covered, non-fiction and fiction, prose and poetry. If you have a suggestion, please let us know.
Low Carbon Diet: A 30 day program to lose 5000 pounds
by David Gershon
This "30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds" is a fun, accessible, and easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month's time. Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from calculating your current CO2 "footprint" to tracking your progress. By making simple changes to actions you take every day, you'll learn how to reduce your annual household CO2 output by at least 15%. And, for those who are more ambitious, you'll discover how you can help your workplace, local schools, and community do the same.
The book is written by David Gershon, founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute, is one of the world's leading authorities on behavior change and large-scale transformation.
Powell's Books suggests:
"Low Carbon Diet: A 30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds is a book that is destines to become a movement. Arriving just in time to meet the groundswell of demand created by An Inconvenient Truth, it guides readers through an accessible step-by-step program for personal CO2-reduction that leaves them empowered and inspired at the difference they can make toward the issue of our time.
Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers readers much more than a to-do list of eco-friendly actions. With practicality and humor, bestselling author and environmental change pioneer David Gershon walks readers through every step of the carbon-reduction process, from calculating their current CO2 footprint to tracking their progress and measuring their impact. By making simple changes to actions they take every day, readers learn how to reduce their annual household CO2 output by at least 15%. And, for those who are more ambitious, there are chapters on how to become 'carbon neutral' and help one's workplace, local schools and community do the same."
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Check out the Empowerment Institute website.
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