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How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything by Mike Berners-Lee (Paperback, 2020)

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Review It is terrific. -- Bill BrysonAn engaging book that manages to present serious science without preaching. A triumph of popular science writing. How can we educate our desires unless we know what we're choosing between?.

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How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) and what made very little difference (bananas, naturally packaged, are good!). This new edition updates all the figures (from data centres to hosting a World Cup) and introduces many areas that have become a regular part of modern life - Twitter, the Cloud, Bitcoin, electric bikes and cars, even space tourism. Berners-Lee runs a considered eye over each area and gives us the figures to manage and reduce our own carbon footprint, as well as to lobby our companies, businesses and government. His findings, presented in clear and even entertaining prose, are often surprising. And they are essential if we are to address climate change.

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PublisherProfile Books

ISBN-139781788163811

eBay Product ID (ePID)12046680516

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SubjectGeography & Geosciences

Publication Year2020

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameHow Bad Are Bananas?: the Carbon Footprint of Everything

LanguageEnglish

TypeTextbook

AuthorMike Berners-Lee

FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm

Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorMike Berners-Lee

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by frenchbluebutterfly
21 Apr, 2021
Educational but not hard work
It did just what I wanted - made me better informed about the carbon cost of a wide range of items and made useful - doable - suggestions about how to shrink our environmental footprint. For all that it isn't written in a heavy manner - and some of the information is a bit of a surprise. It will be my reference book for some time.
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by jigbusteruk
19 May, 2021
Factual, humorous, not preachy
Factual, humorous, not preachy - a great guide to how our everyday lifestyle choices affect our impact on our environment - and actually (spoiler alert!) - bananas are not bad at all!
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by 1alispring
08 Dec, 2020
Love it
Carbon footprint of everything.... not heavy... really presented well... really interesting.
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by quality_john
21 Oct, 2020
Worth reading
Interesting and well written
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28 May, 2024
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05 Jun, 2024
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04 May, 2024
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