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Tracking Your Carbon Footprint: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Inventorying Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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This "book" is only 40 pages long. I bought it expecting, as the cover indicates, a step-by-step guide to inventorying and calculating my GHG output and that of my company. Out of 40 pages, the actual pages devoted to tracking a carbon footprint are about 20. These the author has padded with large print and large charts. The actual section titled "Calculate GHG Emissions" is only three pages long, and doesn't describe how to do so. Instead, it indicates websites that will help you. Overall, this is a very general book geared toward the most environmentally clueless. A quick search on the internet would get you more information than ten bucks for this book. It appears that's exactly how the author wrote it.

This is an excellent book with many practical suggestions that will not only help the environment, but will also save you money on things such as heating/cooling. The only criticism I have is that, as an apartment dweller, I am unable to implement many of their suggestions, which would require me to alter the apartment. We are able to follow some of the guidelines, but homeowners will definitely benefit more.