![]() ![]() All with practical and applicable uses in businesses, governments, and citizens' homes. Bringing data, historical processes, and developed research. Published by the New York: Penguin Books in 2017, this work addresses multiple plans we do to can reverse global warming. So, let's dive into it! The book “Drawdown” The book Drawdown will give you the answers. So whether you are in a transformative position or not, here you will learn everything you need to know about sustainable conservation, from your day-to-day life to enriching your knowledge for the company. Whatever your feeling about it, we need drastic changes from the State and the private sector to modify this scenario and bring profit to the environment and to the companies.Īfter all, because we are driven by money, both for our benefit and to manufacture new sustainable technologies based on the Green Economy, we need to join forces across these sectors and thus leverage this process for good. I imagine that your answer is yes! And once again, we get into the " Save the Planet" discussion. If people want to take action, they should work on whichever solution they personally resonate with.So, did you know that the world is dying? Although a bit drastic, the question is extremely pertinent in the face of what we see daily, we even dare to ask another one: did you know that humanity is perishing because the planet is as well? Hawken makes it clear that although some solutions have bigger impacts, we need all of them. But most surprising is that if you combine #6 educating girls with #7 family planning, then empowering women is the top solution to climate change! Eight of the top 20 solutions are in the food category (including #3 reduce food waste and #4 plant rich diet), while 5 of the top 20 solutions are energy related. In Hawken’s talk on Drawdown at Seattle Town Hall, he mentions what the Drawdown team found most surprising about the results. ![]() The food we waste is responsible for roughly 8 percent of global emissions. Producing uneaten food squanders a whole host of resources-seeds, water, energy, land, fertilizer, hours of labor, financial capital-and generates greenhouse gases at every stage-including methane when organic matter lands in the global rubbish bin. A third of the food raised or prepared does not make it from farm or factory to fork. This means that if you want to have every student in your class research a different solution and report back to the class, all the information is available online! On the website, one can also read about the research fellows- the impressive diverse group of women and men from all over the world that put Drawdown together. On the website all the solutions in the book are listed by rank and sector (Energy, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, materials, coming attractions) with references and methodology provided. The way to positive energy is designing homes that are extraordinarily energy efficient, what designer Rolf Disch calls PlusEnergy.ĭrawdown uses language that is understandable to the public, instead of using alienating technical lingo. A 59-home community, it is the first in the world to have a positive energy balance, with each home producing $5,600 per year in solar energy profits. Microgrids: This is the Solar Settlement in Freiburg, Germany. Drawdown refers to the specific goal of lowering carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere and bringing that carbon back to earth. As Paul Hawken says, “if you are going down the wrong road and slow down, you’re still going down the wrong road.” For the Drawdown team it is important to stop using violent military analogies when referring to climate change and to draw the attention from what we are doing wrong to what can be done. Most previous climate change literature tells us that we need to “mitigate” and “reduce” emissions in order to “combat” or “fight” global warming. It also is one of the most powerful levers available for avoiding emissions by curbing population growth.įirst off, let’s look at the meaning of “drawdown”. Education lays a foundation for vibrant lives for girls and women, their families, and their communities. Combining # 6 and #7 to make Empowering Women the top solution to Climate Change. ![]() Using mathematical models Drawdown Fellows calculated the impact of the top 80 solutions based on the amount of greenhouse gas reduction and the economic cost/savings. As an educational tool this book is exceptional. 20171129 Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global WarmingĮdited by Paul Hawken, is truly the first of its kind. ![]()
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