Walking back his carbon footprint

A Canadian entrepreneur has vowed to walk from his home in London to Istanbul to capture the environmental cost of his own life, which he calculated in detail in what he calls a personal “lifetime carbon audit.” Host Carol Hills tells the story of 59-year-old Craig Cohon, who began his trek on Tuesday.

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