The Carbon Footprint of Everything

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When it comes to the climate crisis, we all know that the clock is ticking. But few of us truly understand how to meaningfully change our lifestyles and play our part in ensuring the Earth remains healthy and habitable for future generations.

Is locally sourced meat better or worse than air-freighted fruit? Do data centers do more damage to the planet than volcanoes? Will building a house, having a child or going into outer space unleash more carbon into the atmosphere?

Ten years ago sustainability expert Mike Berners-Lee wrote How Bad Are Bananas?, a guide to the carbon footprint of everything—offering a definitive, empirical account of how to calculate and meaningfully reduce our individual environmental impact.

Now the guide is back—with updates to include things that didn’t exist back in 2020, like Tweets, Bitcoins and the Cloud.

From the World Cup to space tourism, electric scooters to Google searches, plastic bags to swimming pools, this live-streamed talk will survey the modern world through an empirical lens, offering facts and anecdotes in the tradition of Bill Bryson and other great communicators—and teach you how to do your part in ensuring our planet has a robust and healthy future.

For more events check our online events calendar.