Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency

How do we live rich, abundant lives while also keeping global heating below 1.5 degrees? We slash our average carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year. By embracing sufficiency over efficiency, we can do it in less than a decade.

Join Lloyd Alter as he reveals the carbon cost of everything we do, identifying where we can make big reductions, while not sweating the small stuff. Coverage includes:

• What it looks like to live a rich and truly green life
• From take-out food, to bikes and cars, to your internet usage ¿ finding the big wins, ignoring the trivial, and spotting marketing ploys
• The invisible embodied carbon baked into everything we own and why electric cars aren't the answer
• The roles of individuals versus governments and corporations.

Grounded in meticulous research and yet accessible to all, Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle is a journey toward a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.

LLOYD ALTER is a writer, public speaker, sustainable design instructor, and former architect, builder, and developer. He has written over 14,000 articles for [...] and lives in Toronto, Canada.