Lloyd Alter is a writer, public speaker, architect, inventor, and Adjunct Professor of Sustainable Design at Toronto Metropolitan University. He has published many thousands of articles on diverse platforms such as TreeHugger, Planet Green, and The Guardian. Lloyd is the author of Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Acknowledgments

1. The Lens of Upfront Carbon

What Are Upfront Carbon Emissions and Why Are They Important?

Why We Are Fixated on Energy, Not Carbon

Carbon Takes Command

The IPCC Does Not Say We're Doomed

OK Doomer

The Building Industry and Upfront Carbon

The Carbon Footprint of Everything

The Unbearable Heaviness of Carbon

Transparency from Shoes to Motorcycles

The Future We Want: Supply vs Demand

Dematerialization and Degrowth

Enjoy the Ride with Demand-Side Mitigation

Why Sufficiency Is the Solution

2. Strategies for Sufficiency

Materiality: Build Out of Sunshine

Ephemerality

Frugality

Simplicity

Flexibility

Circularity

Universality

Resiliency

Satiety or Enoughness

Electricity

Intermittency

Operating Efficiency

Design Efficiency

Inequality, Inequity, and Justice

3. Stuff

The Single-Use Coffee Cup

From the Two-by-Four to Mass Timber to a Block of Flats

The Block of Flats

The Folly of Foam Insulation

The Heat Pump

The Puffer Jacket

The Hamburger

The Car

The E-Cargo Bike

4. Everything Connects

A Prosperous Ascent

Conclusion
Appendix A: Cheat Sheet: A Short Guide to Sufficiency

Notes

Index

About the Author

About New Society Publishers