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How the Program Works

This is an easy-to-use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO2 output in just a month’s time.

Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from calculating your current CO2 “footprint” to tracking your progress.

By making simple changes to actions you take every day, you’ll learn how to reduce your annual household CO2 output by at least 15 percent. And, for those who are more ambitious, you’ll discover how you can help your workplace, local schools, and community do the same.

Join the growing number of citizens who have decided to take global warming into their own hands.

You'll learn how to:

  • Calculate your CO2 footprint with our easy-to-use "carbon calculator"
  • Create "cool household systems" that save the Earth while
 saving you money
  • Take on "cool lifestyle practices" that reduce CO2 emissions without cramping your style
  • Purchase carbon offsets to become "carbon neutral"
  • Form a Low Carbon Diet "EcoTeam" with friends, neighbors, co-workers or your faith community.
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Look Inside the Book


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pdf Table of Contents

pdf Introduction

pdf Sample Actions

pdf Cool Lifestyle Action Plan

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Household CO2 Calculator


Calculate your carbon footprint before and after doing the program!

Low Carbon Diet and the Cool Community


Socail Change 2.0Learn about the social change framework and research underpinning the Low Carbon Diet program in David Gershon’s award-winning book Social Change 2.0: A Blueprint for Reinventing Our World. Chapter 11 of the book is a case study of the Low Carbon Diet behavior change program and Cool Community empowerment model on which the Low Carbon Diet program is based. This chapter has been excerpted as a six-part series in the Sustainable City Network listed below:

Part One: Low Carbon Diet and the Cool Community

Part Two: An Inconvenient Truth Finds a Convenient Solution

Part Three: Instead of Cursing the Dark, Light a Candle

Part Four: The Global Warming Café

Part Five: Taking a Cool Community to Scale

Part Six: The Cool City Challenge

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Case Study


climate for change 100Changing the World One Household at a Time, Portland's 30 day program to lose 5000 lbs — Article by Sarah Rabkin about residential climate change program, Portland, OR. From the book, Creating a Climate for Change.

pdf Changing the World One Household at a Time

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A grass-roots push for a 'low carbon diet'

Low Carbon Diet Testimonials


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"David Gershon has created a step-by-step program, à la Weight Watchers, designed to reduce a person's carbon footprint. . . . Replete with checklists and illustrations, this user-friendly guide is a serious attempt at changing American energy-consumption behavior. . . . The timing for a book offering day-to-day solutions to an overwhelming global problem couldn't be better."

— The Christian Science Monitor


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