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"Help! Where Do I Start? Over the last few years, I've been asking people like you how they feel about climate change. Many are weighed down by the responsibility and scale of what's required. More strikingly, I find them describing the same recurring feelings which prevent them from taking effective action: ""I feel bad"", ""I'm confused and overwhelmed"", ""I'm afraid I'll look stupid"". At the same time, most people want to make a difference: to do their bit to fix the plight of our planet. But there are very real practical, financial, and psychological barriers to action. Making What Was Unmanageable Manageable This book is designed to get you started, and then to keep you going. It provides a clear, step-by-step guide to reducing your carbon emissions in a way that fits your personal situation, sustains your motivation, and gets your friends involved, too. We can all play our part in this, The Carbon Buddy Project. The Biggest Rescue Project of All Time We'd all like that to succeed, wouldn't we? But first, we all have to find our resolve and take that first step. Only then can we leave a positive legacy and a viable future for our children and our children's children. The Carbon Buddy Manual is that first step. Join Me on the Ride Ahead - Colin Hastings"

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Should become THE defining D-I-Y manual in the field. - Dianne Stadhams. Global Sustainability Consultant Hastings presents us with a 'can do' guide to making a difference. A great toolkit for the 'new normal' future. - Linda Camidge. Coordinator, Penzance Literary Festival An extremely useful resource for any community organisation which is engaged in practical action tackling environmental issues. - Simon Brown. Coordinator, Transition Chester, UK

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Colin Hastings is the founder of The Carbon Buddy Project and author of The Carbon Buddy Manual. He has a Masters and PhD in Organisational Psychology from Birkbeck College, London University. He then went on to work at Ashridge Management College (now Hult Ashridge Executive Education), where he became Head of Organisational Behaviour and founder of Ashridge's first specialised consultancy unit, Ashridge Teamworking. He spent the subsequent fifteen years running his own freelance organisational change consultancy, specialising in innovation, the management of change, teamworking, and project leadership. He is the author or co-author of three books: o Superteams: published by Harper Collins o The New Organisation: published by McGraw Hill o Project Leadership: published by Gower Publishing/Ashgate Inspired by their son's new qualifications in Renewable Energy, he and his wife spent ten years implementing a personal carbon footprint reduction system, and in the process discovered the many financial, practical, and psychological barriers lying in the path of effective climate action. That experience, combined with his professional background, led him to develop the behaviour change ideas and tools which together make up The Carbon Buddy Manual and The Carbon Buddy Project.

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