Summary

All humans on earth produce a carbon footprint. The excessive amount of CO2 being shed into the atmosphere is truly the underlying problem for global warming and climate change. This is because man-made CO2 emissions are produced at such an astonishingly fast rate that mother nature simply cannot keep up with. Joanne Yarrow tells the reader " How To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint" and provides "365 simple ways to save energy, resources, and money." Surpisingly, reducing your carbon footprint can be a fun and easy process! By adopting just a few new habits and making tiny changes, every individual can have less of an environmental impact on Earth--without sacrificing their lifestyle. It provides practical suggestions on just about every aspect of life. From shopping to composting to refrigeration to personal hygiene. It contains obvious ideas such as turning off the lights, shutting off the tap, and buying locally-grown food. But also includes less known methods such as cooking in small pans, using integrated appliances, and using a gray-water system. Whether only 1 tip is tried or all 365 tips, it will be a win-win situation overall; saving the Earth and your money! Additionally, all this relates to Shakespeare's quote, "I have seen medicine that's able to breathe life into a stone" from "All's Well That Ends Well" in Act 2, Scene 1, lines 72-75. Here Lafew convinces the deathly ill King of France to try one more doctor, despite multiple failures with remedies and nearing the point of giving up. Helena, uses her healing powers to "breathe life into a stone", eventually curing the King. The stone refers to the King's sickness because a stone is aged, pale, cold, and still; similar to the King's condition. This quote relates to the summary because if we do not persevere in the fight to sustain the earth, it could result in death. Metaphorically, the King is earth, his health is the environment, Lafew is Yarrow's book, and Helena is all the people adopting new ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Further readings about my Personal Response and 5 Quotations Explained can also be viewed.