Concerned about global warming, Dr. Peter Kalmus cut his emissions to below a tenth of the US average, and found that this made his life more interesting, satisfying, and joyful — not less. He started riding a bike, driving on vegetable oil, and engaging in “slow travel” without airplanes. He switched to “freegan vegetarianism” and grows much of his own food. He has simplified and decarbonized his life, and he has never looked back.
Two testimonials that will get you exctied to listen:“A low-carbon world will not look like Star Trek, it will look mostly like it looks today, it’s just that we will inhabit it differently. Peter Kalmus’s brilliant book is about his deciding to start living that way today. He finds that (a) it’s not that hard, and that (b) life improves. He becomes more skilled, connected, fulfilled, nourished. As we all will. Allow him to ease you over the threshold. –Rob Hopkins
Being the Change is a book I desperately needed to read. The tone of authenticity kept me reading eagerly till the end. It is refreshing and empowering to read about real-life solutions, rather than the guilt-ridden, doom-and-gloom tales that dominate much of the environmental movement. Kalmus is positive, by contrast, bursting with practical strategies. He writes with joy, infectious curiosity, and a hopeful enthusiasm that’s hard to resist. —Treehugger, Katherine Martinko
