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Drawdown

  • 240 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2017
  • 7 editions

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1 About this book

In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here--some are well known; some you may have never heard of.

They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination.

If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth's warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline.

Good for readers who want: business, science, and politics.

  • Climate change
  • Environment
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Business & economics
  • Science
  • Political science
  • Climatic changes
  • Environmental Economics

2 About Paul Hawken

Born 1946

Paul Gerard Hawken (born February 8, 1946) is an American environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, economist, and activist. Hawken is the co-founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit that describes how global warming can be reversed. He served as Drawdown's executive director from 2014 until 2017 and is credited as the primary author on their eponymous book project.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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