The story of upfront carbon : how a life of just enough offers a way out of the climate crisis
We must cut carbon emissions to halt climate change. But they aren't just produced by driving a car or heating a home. Upfront carbon - all emissions involved in manufacturing an item - can dwarf operating emissions, which is why when you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes.
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- ISBN: 9780865719927 (pbk.)
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Physical Description
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ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher 2024
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Chapter 1: The lens of upfront carbon -- What are upfront carbon emissions and why are they important? -- Why we are fixated on energy, not carbon -- Carbon takes command -- The IPCC does not say we're doomed -- OK Doomer -- History of embodied carbon -- The carbon footprint of everything -- The unbearable heaviness of carbon -- Transparency from shoes to motorcycles -- The future we want: supply vs demand -- Dematerialization and degrowth -- Enjoy the ride with demand-side mitigation -- Why sufficiency is the solution -- Chapter 2: Strategies for Sufficiency -- Materiality: building out of sunshine -- Materiality: use less stuff -- Materiality: using less of the bad stuff -- Ephemerality -- Frugality -- Simplicity -- Flexibility -- Circularity -- Universality -- Resiliency -- Satiety and enoughness -- Electricity -- Intermittency -- Operating efficiency -- Design efficiency -- Inequity -- Chapter 3: Stuff -- The single-use coffee cup -- From the 2X4 to mass timber -- The e-cargo bike -- The heat pump -- The puffer jacket -- The hamburger -- The folly of foam insulation -- The car -- The block of flats/ apartments -- The shoe -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Everything connects -- A prosperous ascent -- Conclusion. |