"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."

– Denis Hayes,
Co-founder, Earth Day, President and CEO, Bullitt Foundation
Become part of the global warming solution.
Go on a Low Carbon Diet!

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 become “carbon neutral” and help your workplace, local schools, and community do the same.

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

You'll learn how to:

  • Calculate your CO2 footprint with our easy-to-use "carbon calculator"
  • Create "cool household systems" that save the Earth while
    saving you money
  • Take on "cool lifestyle practices" that reduce CO2 emissions without cramping your style
  • Purchase carbon offsets to become "carbon neutral"
  • Form a Low Carbon Diet "Eco Team" with friends, colleagues, co-workers or your faith community

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)


"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


"Low Carbon Diet couldn't be timelier in providing people an action plan for addressing climate change, just when the collective consciousness seems to be bending in that direction. . . . The book helps self-organized teams take action to dramatically reduce their carbon footprint."

– Leverage Points, Pegasus Communications


"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


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