Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle reveals the carbon cost of everything we do and shows how to slash your own carbon footprint by 80% to 2.5 tonnes per year by choosing a life of quality over quantity, and sufficiency over efficiency, as we race to save our only home from catastrophic heating.

Stop thinking about efficiency and start thinking about sufficiency

Alter is a master of the carbon drawdown roadmap.
- Chuck Wolfe, author, Sustaining a City's Culture and Character

A fabulously entertaining guide to where all those emissions lurk.
- Kate Power, development director, Hot or Cool Institute

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.

For all who've been preaching climate action, or skirting it, read this and own up to all the ways you could try harder, and then get louder about sharing the overall life benefits you gain.
- Andrea Learned, climate leadership strategist, founder, #Bikes4Climate

Tells us exactly what we as citizens of the world must do in our everyday lives to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions before it's too late.
- F. Kaid Benfield, Senior Counsel, PlaceMakers LLC

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

"Lloyd Alter has created a highly engaging, intelligent, and thoughtful "manual for living the 1.5-degree lifestyle." There is plenty of myth-busting, supported by quality, in-depth research which goes far beyond the usual well-worn clichés and mantras. He humanises and crystallizes the "choices and trade-offs" we have to make to keep within 1.5°C global warming, so 'it is sufficient with enough to go around for everyone.'"
- Rosalind Readhead, English climate activist

"This joyful adventure in 1.5 degree living shows that a focus on "sufficiency" can unlock a happier, healthier sustainable way of life. "Efficiency" has dominated precisely because it perpetuates the status quo but Lloyd´s story shines a light on why we must transform our vision of a "good life" as well as practical tips for how to do it."
- Kate Power, development director, Hot or Cool Institute

"For years I've relied on Lloyd Alter's no-nonsense insight in Treehugger, including his direct, and to-the-point reflections on the elements of a better urban life. In his new, equally clear book, he's done it again with an immensely practical set of insights and rules to live by. With wisdom gleaned during the pandemic-year, Lloyd joins Paul Hawken as a master of the carbon drawdown roadmap."
- Chuck Wolfe, Seeing Better Cities Group, author, Sustaining a City's Culture and Character

"With fact-based research and tales of personal experience, Lloyd will reach many new audiences with this book. I, for one, embrace a return to the concept of sufficiency with regard to transportation, food, and more. For all who've been preaching climate action, or skirting it, I implore you to read this book and own up to all the ways you could try harder, and then get louder about sharing the overall life benefits you gain."
- Andrea Learned, climate leadership strategist, founder, #Bikes4Climate

"Lloyd Alter's writing is always fresh, incisive, and thoughtful and, in this timely and clearly written call to action, he tells us exactly what we as citizens of the world must do in our everyday lives to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions before it's too late. Reflecting Alter's background as an architect and real estate developer, this book is at once idealistic and pragmatic, and the lifestyle issues it addresses - based on the author's own experience - could not be more urgent. Governments and businesses cannot solve this problem without actions by each of us as individuals, and Alter tells us how."
- F. Kaid Benfield, Senior Counsel, PlaceMakers LLC