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What About China?
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Sep 22, 2008, 15:36

Answers to this and other awkward questions about climate change

What About China? is a new book which seeks to dispel the myths that we all use to avoid change and justify the way we live.

A panel of experts from Triodos Bank, The Soil Association, Waste Watch, Ecover, Alastair Sawday’s Travel Guides, the Centre for Alternative Technology and author of the Little and Big Earth Book, James Bruges, give entertaining, precise and informative answers to a series of tricky questions on travel, food, climate change, recycling, energy, waste and finance. The book goes out to prove that the excuses we make to avoid reducing our carbon footprint and limit our impact on the planet are exactly that: excuses.   
The book’s publisher and writer of the chapter on Travel, Alastair Sawday, is the founder of the first carbon-neutral publishing company, planting trees to compensate for air travel, promoting environmental awareness and sustainable living. He was deeply involved in the 1970s Green Movement, first with Friends of the Earth, then as a Green Party candidate and a vice-chair of the Soil Association.

Running a small travel company, conducting walking tours throughout Europe, Alastair discovered many ‘special’ B&Bs, far removed from the impersonal nature of large hotel corporations. It inspired him to publish his first set of travel guides. The publications were a success and so the Special Places to Stay series was born.

In 2006 the company moved into an eco-office, reducing its annual carbon emissions from 26 tonnes to seven and winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Sustainable Development. This year they received the Independent Publishers Guild Environmental Award.

What About China? is part of Alastair Sawday’s environmental series, Fragile Earth, highlighting the perilous state of the world, yet offering imaginative and radical solutions. Calculate your own footprint at www.carboncalculator.co.uk or www.carbonfootprint.com and identify the quick and simple ways to cut back your own consumption – bury carbon in your own back garden, reduce the waste of your toilet flush and invest your money ethically. If everyone in the UK turned their tap off while brushing their teeth, we would save 180 million litres of water per day.

“What’s the point in me doing anything about climate change when China is opening two new power stations per week?” The questions and answers in this book will convert even the most hardened carbon sceptics. “An excellent debunking of the myths that justify inaction,” says The Ecologist.

To purchase ‘What About China?’
Published by Alastair Sawday Publishing, ISBN 978 1 906136 11 6
with a 45% discount at the special price of £3.85 + P&P (RRP £6.99)

Contact: Alastair Sawday Publishing,
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