EVER wondered what the carbon footprint of a text message is? Or a pint of milk? Or perhaps a pair of trousers? Well, Mike Berners-Lee has done the number-crunching to come up with the answers.
As we are exposed to a flood of all-too-often contradictory tips on greener living, making environmentally responsible decisions can be a perplexing business. Berners-Lee wants this to change, and the declared purpose of his book is to give us all the “carbon instinct”.
How Bad Are Bananas? is packed with information about the everyday things we do and use that perhaps we did not…
