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The first edition won the 2012 Green Book Festival Award Deftly blends intelligence with entertainment, perhaps creating a unique genre: a page-turner for the climate-conscious. --Publishers Weekly A user-friendly reminder of our environmental impact... [that] will find an audience among patrons concerned about climate change. --Booklist, STARRED review An easy, often amusing read...Readers can enjoy the fun as Berners-Lee reveals the carbon footprints of hundreds of elements in our lives. --Kirkus Reviews Praise for There Is No Planet B I can't remember the last time I read a book that was more fascinating and useful and enjoyable. --Bill Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body There is no Planet B is a massively entertaining compendium of bite-sized facts ... It's also massively important, given the current state of the planet. --Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and American Earth There is no Planet B is a rallying cry for a generation worried that they will inherit a world shorn of nature's wonders and of the freedoms and opportunities we take for granted... [this book] will go a long way to ensuring the planet we hand on may just be liveable. --Adrian Barnett, New Scientist Who should read There is no Planet B? Everyone. Mike Berners-Lee has written a far-ranging and truth-telling handbook that is as readable as it is instructive. --Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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Mike Berners Lee is a leading expert in carbon footprinting and the author of several books. He is a professor and fellow of the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University and director and principal consultant of Small World Consulting, based in the Lancaster Environment Centre.

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