Count your carbon (and then cut it)

An excellent review of two Carbon Calculation books in today's Guardian by Jeremy Leggett, author of Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis. He looks at Chris Goodall's in-depth calculator How to Live a Low-Carbon Life and Mark Lynas's pocket guide Carbon Counter: Calculate Your Carbon Footprint.

"I could nitpick about what is counted and what is not in these two fine books. But that would be futile. The point is this. If kilograms-of-carbon-saved becomes some kind of measure of wealth and health, then Microsoft's all-embracing carbon-counting software will not be far off. The carbon-aware future is coming. Despite the hills of carbon beans, and the need for fairly complex spreadsheets, it is going to be nothing if not interesting. Goodall and Lynas are the pioneers, and are doing a good job of taking us with them."