Chris Goodall

His début book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life, won the 2007 Clarion Award for non-fiction.{{cite web

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|title=Chris Goodall

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}} His second book, Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate, was one of the Financial Times' Books of the Year, first published in 2008 it was revised and updated in 2010.{{cite news

|url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy

|title=The 10 big energy myths

|first=Chris

|last=Goodall

|work=The Guardian

|date=27 November 2008

|issn=0261-3077

|oclc=60623878

|accessdate=3 January 2013}}{{cite web

|url= https://profilebooks.com/ten-technologies-to-fix-energy-and-climate.html

|title=Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate

|publisher=Profile Books

|year=2008

|accessdate=11 November 2016}} His third book, The Green Guide For Business, was published in 2010 by Profile Books.{{cite web |url= http://www.profilebooks.com/isbn/9781846688744/ |title= The Green Guide For Business |publisher= Profile Books |year= 2013 |accessdate= 3 January 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://archive.today/20130216170923/http://www.profilebooks.com/isbn/9781846688744/ |archivedate= 16 February 2013 }} Goodall also wrote Sustainability: All That Matters, which was published in 2012 by Hodder & Stoughton.{{cite book |last1=Goodall |first1=Chris |title=Sustainability: All That Matters |date=2012 |publisher=Hodder & Stoughton |location=London |isbn=9781444174403 |oclc=1131675073 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131675073 |accessdate=20 August 2020}}

In July 2016, The Switch was published by Profile Books, focusing on solar, storage and new energy technologies.{{cite web

|url= https://profilebooks.com/the-switch.html |title=The Switch

|publisher= Profile Books |year=2016 |accessdate=11 November 2016}}

Goodall's What We Need To Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future (2020, Profile Books: {{ISBN| 978-1788164719}}) was short-listed for the 2020 Wainwright Prize for writing on global conservation.{{cite web |title=2020 Writing on Global Conservation shortlist |url=https://wainwrightprize.com/2020-shortlist-writing-on-global-conservation/|website=The Wainwright Prize |accessdate=31 July 2020}}

Goodall has also contributed a number of articles to The Guardian,{{cite news |year=2013 |title=Chris Goodall |url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/chrisgoodall |accessdate=3 January 2013 |work=The Guardian}} the Independent, and the Ecologist{{cite news |last=Goodall |first=Chris |date=15 July 2016 |title=Solar on the best UK sites is competitive with cheap coal |url=http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2987914/solar_on_the_best_uk_sites_is_competitive_with_cheap_coal.html |accessdate=13 November 2016 |work=The Ecologist}} among others. He has also spoken at literary festivals around the UK, at the British Library, the Science Museum and many universities.{{cite web |year=2016 |title=Chris Goodall |url=http://www.a-speakers.com/speakers/chris-goodall |accessdate=13 November 2016 |work=A-Speakers}}

On the issue of UK's energy mix, Goodall used to consider that nuclear power had a role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Goodall once said "Including nuclear power in this mix will make a low-carbon and energy-secure future easier to achieve".{{cite news

|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/chris-goodall-the-green-movement-must-learn-to-love-nuclear-power-1629354.html

|title= The green movement must learn to love nuclear power - Commentators - Voices -

|first=Chris

|last= Goodall

|work=The Independent

|date= 23 February 2009

|accessdate=3 January 2013}} However, he opposed the construction of the Hinkley C nuclear power plant.{{cite news

|url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/18/we-are-pro-nuclear-but-hinkley-c-must-be-scrapped

|title= We are pro-nuclear, but Hinkley C must be scrapped

|first1=George

|last1=Monbiot

|author-link=George Monbiot

|first2=Mark

|last2=Lynas

|author2-link=Mark Lynas

|first3=Chris

|last3=Goodall

|author3-link=Chris Goodall

|work=The Guardian

|date= 18 September 2015

|accessdate=11 November 2016}}

More recently, Goodall has changed his position on nuclear and his analysis has focused on how the UK can move to a future powered by 100% renewables. This is evident from his Carbon Commentary blog{{Cite web|url=https://www.carboncommentary.com/blog/2020/8/23/how-much-space-will-a-100-renewables-uk-require|title = How much space will a 100% renewables UK require?}} and his 2020 book, What we Need to Do Now.Page 17: 'My proposal for our route to zero carbon emissions is for a twenty-fold expansion of renewable energy.' Page 37: 'A few years ago, we might have thought that new nuclear generators might fill the role of renewables today. But the experience around the world of building new power stations has been almost uniformly disastrous.' Page 37: 'At today's expected price levels, nuclear power would be at least twice the cost of offshore wind or solar.'

Goodall helped develop the UK's first employee-owned solar PV installation in 2011 at the Eden Project.{{cite news

|url= http://www.edenproject.com/media/2012/03/eden-project-and-ebico-team-up-to-launch-uks-first-staff-owned-solar-programme

|title= Eden Project and Ebico team up to launch UK's first staff-owned solar programme

|work=Eden Project

|date=6 March 2012

|accessdate=13 November 2016}}

• How to Live a Low-Carbon Life (2007, Earthscan, {{ISBN| 9781844074266}})
• Ten Technologies to Save the Planet (2008, Profile Books, {{ISBN| 9781846688683}})
• The Green Guide For Business (2010, Profile Books, {{ISBN| 9781846688744}})
• Sustainability: All That Matters (2012, Hodder & Stoughton/Hachette, {{ISBN| 9781444174427}})
• The Switch (2016, Profile Books, {{ISBN| 9781782832485}})
• What We Need To Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future (2020, Profile Books, {{ISBN| 9781788164719}})
• [https://profilebooks.com/work/possible/ Possible: Ways to Net Zero] (2024, Profile Books, ISBN 1800818963, 9781800818965)

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• [http://www.christiantoday.com/article/britains.top.earners.are.worst.climate.offenders.says.christian.author/17863.htm Britain's top earners are worst climate offenders, says Christian author], Christian Today.
• [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/jan/20/marksspencer.carbonemissions M&S private jet flies in face of green plan], The Guardian.
• [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article2195538.ece?print=yes&randnum=1211499009515 Walking to the shops ‘damages planet more than going by car’]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, Times Online.
• [http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2007/08/06/driving_vs_walking/ Honk if you want to stop global warming] Salon.com
• [http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/how-virtuous-is-ed-begley-jr/?pagemode=print How Virtuous is Ed Begley Jr.?] The New York Times
• [http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/When-going-green-just-doesn39t.2130533.jp When going green just doesn't add up] Yorkshire Post
• [http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Udland/2007/08/06/171408.htm Ekspert: Det er miljøskadeligt at gå (DR Forside)] {{in lang|da}}

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