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How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee
Category: Science
Ten years on from first publication, a new edition of this invaluable and entertaining guide that shows just what effect everything has on carbon emissions, from a Google search to a plastic bag, from a flight to a volcano.
How Bad are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee
Category: Science
From a text message to a war, from a Valentine's rose to a flight or even having a child, How Bad are Bananas? gives us the carbon answers we need and provides plenty of revelations. By talking through a hundred or so items, Mike Berners-Lee sets out to give us a carbon instinct for the footprint of lit ...Show more
The Burning Question : We Can't Burn Half of the World's Oil, Coal and Gas. So How do Quit? by Mike Berners-Lee
Category: Science & Natural History
Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy, economics and geopolitics. Season with human nature ... Entertaining and authoritative, The Burning Question reveals climate change as the most fascinating intellectual, social and political puzzle in human history. It shows that ?despite ...Show more
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years by Mike Berners-Lee
Category: Science
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? H ...Show more
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years - Updated Edition by Mike Berners-Lee
Category: Science & Natural History
Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics, pandemics - the list of concerns seems endless. But what is most pressing, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? How can we take control of technology? And, given the ...Show more
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