Anna Shepard, Eco Worrier

For all you carbon geeks out there, this is absolutely the book for you. It tells you the carbon footprint of everything – from a pint of ale in a pub (compared to an overpackaged supermarket bottle of lager) to a newspaper (taking in the differences between broadsheet, tabloid and weekly digest, of course). And I know you are out there, you hordes of green geeks. You used to bombard me when I wrote the Eco Worrier column for The Times, asking me obscure questions about carbon footprinting and demanding intricate scientific knowledge that I didn’t have. In the future, I will simply direct you to this book.