Donna Green & Liz Minchin
Dr Donna Green is an energy and environment scholar and writer. Liz Minchin is an award-winning journalist with The Age .
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Screw Light Bulbs
Clear thinking on Australia's carbon future
Australia was the first country in the world to officially ban old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs as a solution to climate change - but was it a good idea? In fact, does anything we do in Australia really make any difference? Do we risk crashing our economy by tackling climate change? Should we stop eating chocolate for the good of the planet? Why should we think twice about our shopping choices? And what’s the real story behind Australia’s light bulb ban?
Screw Light Bulbs cuts through the political spin and jargon to offer staight answers to all sorts of questions about climate change such as these and many many more. Rather than lecturing, it uses examples to show how Australia could deliver better-run services that would save us time, money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Written by award-winning Age journalist Liz Minchin and leading climate and energy expert Dr Donna Green, this is a genuinely independent, straight-talking guidebook for Australians on what we need to do as a nation to get serious about our future. It's inclusive, positive and credible - distinguishing it from other 'climate change' books that will give you either individual solutions, big picture solutions or politics. This does all three in an easy-to-read Q&A format with bite-sized sections aimed to spark conversation.
The royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to climate adaptation work in the Torres Strait and to the International Women's Development Agency.
155 x 235 mm, 320 pages, paperback
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