Lloyd Alter

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency. Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions while not sweating the small stuff. The international scientific consensus is that we have less than a decade to drastically slash our collective carbon emissions to keep global heating to 1.5...

When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes. Think that buying an electric car or switching to a heat pump is going to save the planet? Think again. 'Upfront carbon' refers to all emissions involved in making your car, your home, or any other item. These invisible embodied carbon emissions matter a lot. As...