Winner of the 2007 Independent Publisher
"Most Likely to Save the Planet" Book Award

"This book is fabulous! It couldn't be more timely. It's practical, accessible and effective. Getting people to take on global warming at a personal level is critical to tackling the issue. The Low Carbon Diet can make a huge difference."

This “30 Day Program to Lose 5000 Pounds” is a fun, accessible, easy to use guide that will show you, step-by-step, how to dramatically reduce your CO₂ output in just a month’s time.

Grounded in over two decades of environmental behavior change research, this illustrated workbook offers much more than a list of eco-friendly actions. It walks you through every step of the process, from calculating your current CO₂ “footprint” to tracking your progress.

By making simple changes to actions you take every day, you’ll learn how to reduce your annual household CO₂ output by at least 15%. And, for those who are more ambitious, you’ll discover how you can help your workplace, local schools, and community do the same.

Join the growing number of citizens who have decided to take global warming into their own hands.

Praise for Low Carbon Diet:

"David Gershon has created a step-by-step program, à la Weight Watchers, designed to reduce a person's carbon footprint. . . . Replete with checklists and illustrations, this user-friendly guide is a serious attempt at changing American energy-consumption behavior. . . . The timing for a book offering day-to-day solutions to an overwhelming global problem couldn't be better."

– The Christian Science Monitor
(read the whole article - weblink or PDF)

"FINALLY… there’s the Low Carbon Diet. The program is intelligently and imaginatively built to be user-friendly, easy and fun!! I made new friends, was encouraged that others feel as passionately about safeguarding our planet as I do, and was supported by my LCD Team in taking really significant actions that have made my household carbon-neutral! Amazing!! Now I’m working with new and old friends to bring the Low Carbon Diet program to my community, and finally feeling a sense of hope for our future and the future of our Earth."

– Patty Goodwin, Low Carbon Diet participant

"The Low Carbon Diet is amazingly effective at promoting true, sustainable change. The realities of our very green family's carbon consumption were sobering, but David Gershon's program has given us an easy-to-implement plan for dramatically lowering it. In fact, in the past month we have lost 114,550 pounds and we're now carbon neutral!"

– Nan and Andy Satter, Low Carbon Diet participants

“Some of the best material I have seen for organizing a community, business or school to deal locally with greenhouse gas reduction has been created by David Gershon's Empowerment Institute.  David is a compelling speaker, but most importantly he has created "how to" guides that I think are without equal.”
 
– Bill Stillinger, PV Squared

"This entertaining workbook helps you make the cool choice to quantify and reduce the impact you are having on the planet. Its 22 practical steps are embedded in a social change technology that leverages relationships to help people move from ideas to action. Go on this Low Carbon Diet with family, friends, co-workers and neighbors, and learn as much about each other as you do about climate change."

– Leverage Points, Pegasus Communications
(read interview with David Gershon - weblink or PDF)

"Low Carbon Diet is a deeply transforming book. It is indispensable to anyone who wants to make a difference on climate change.”

– Tim Flannery, author of The Weathermakers, 2007Australian of the Year

“Low Carbon Diet is a very effective program for helping people achieve real and lasting carbon reduction at the household level. We gave a copy to each person who was personally trained by Al Gore and The Climate Project to give a version of his slideshow. I recommend it to anyone who wants to do their part to reduce their carbon footprint.”

– Jenny Clad, Executive Director, Al Gore’s “The Climate Project”

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Watch Video: David Gershon on Low Carbon Diet

Being Fearless: David Gershon talks about Low Carbon Diet and Societal Change for the Being Fearless Conference with Al Gore at Omega Institute

Look Inside:

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Back Cover
• About the Author,
  David Gershon
• Praise for the Green Living Handbook
  (on which the Low Carbon Diet is based)

Sample Actions:

• Scrub-A-Dub Tub
• Wear It Again Sam
• Drive Earth Smart