Summary (Amazon): "The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world."
Website for the Book: https://www.drawdown.org/
Event: September 24, 7:00 - 9:00 for Climate Week in NYC:
https://www.climateweeknyc.org/event/drawdown
Reviews:
NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/opinion/a-smorgasbord-of-solutions-for-global-warming.html
The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/22/first-look-environmental-entrepreneur-paul-hawkens-long-awaited-new-book
Kirkus Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/paul-hawken/drawdown/
Ted Talks:
1. Chad Frischmann:
https://www.ted.com/talks/chad_frischmann_100_solutions_to_climate_change?language=en
2. Katherine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming:
https://www.ted.com/talks/katharine_wilkinson_how_empowering_women_and_girls_can_help_stop_global_warming/transcript?language=en
The Green Deal, House Resolution 109: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/109/text
Group Discussion: (This will be led by Donna.)
The logical way to read this book is to use it to identify how you can make a difference. How each person thinks and perceives his or her role and responsibility in the world is the first step in any transformation - the base upon which all change depends. (p. 216)
Keeping this in mind, read what is of interest to you. Keep some notes and write up some of your own questions and observations to share with the group and what you find inspiring.
Also, please read the beginning including Origins, Language and Numbers (x-xv) and also the end An Opening, Methodology and What the Numbers tell us (p. 216-225)
1. Which solutions for drawing down carbon dioxide emissions struck you as the most:
interesting? surprising? feasible? far-fetched? controversial?
2. How can we make some changes in our own lives to help drawdown CO 2 levels?
3. How might government agencies affect and/or promote various solutions proposed in Drawdown?
4. Have you read The Green New Deal yet? If not, what have you heard about it?
5. Who might you give this book to, a recent graduate? A candidate? A neighbor, friend, or business person?
