RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #4 66.11 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 GLOBAL COST AND SAVINGS DATA TOO VARIABLE TO BE DETERMINED. The Buddha, Confucius, and Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci and Leo Tolstoy. Gandhi and Guadi. Percy Bysshe Shelly and George Bernard Shaw. Plant-based diets have had no shortage of notable champions, long before omnivore Michael Pollan... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: Getting Unstuck: How We Accelerate Climate Action
The video titled "Getting Unstuck: How We Accelerate Climate Action" delves into strategies to accelerate climate action. Speaker: Jonathan Foley, Executive Director, Project Drawdown . Video Source March 2024 Update: Introduction to Project Drawdown Project Drawdown is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach "Drawdown" - the future point in time when... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: MULTISTRATA AGROFORESTRY
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #28 9.28 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $26.8 BILLION NET COST $709.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Strata are horizontal layers. The word’s Latin root means “something spread out or laid down,” like a blanket. These layers are one of the defining features of forests, from undergrowth to understory, from canopy to emergent—the tallest... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #11 23.15 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $57.2 BILLION NET COST $1.93 TRILLION NET SAVINGS Regenerative agriculture practices restore degraded land. They include no tillage, diverse cover crops, in-farm fertility (no external nutrient sources required, no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers, and multiple crop rotations, all of which can be augmented by managed... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: CLEAN COOKSTOVES
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #21 15.81 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $72.2 BILLION NET COST $166.3 BILLION NET SAVINGS Preparing food is at the core of family, culture, and community. Experts debate how long humans have been cooking with fire, but it is likely hundreds of thousands of years. Cooking with heat has a host of... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: FOOD
Think of the causes of global warming, and fossil fuel energy probably comes to mind. Less conspicuous are the consequences of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The food system is elaborate and complex; its requirements and impacts are extraordinary. Fossil fuels power tractors, fishing vessels, transport, processing, chemicals, packaging materials, refrigeration, supermarkets, and kitchens. Chemical fertilizers... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: REDUCED FOOD WASTE
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #3 70.53 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 GLOBAL COST AND SAVINGS DATA TOO VARIABLE TO BE DETERMINED. One of the great miracles of life on this planet is the creation of food. The alchemy human beings do with seed, sun, soil, and water produces figs and fava beans, pearl onions and okra.... Continue Reading →
This NEW European Wind Turbine for Home Outbeats PV Solar Panels in 2023?!
The Rise of the European Wind Turbine: Outperforming Solar Panels in 2023 In 2023, a new European wind turbine design emerged that claimed to outperform traditional photovoltaic (PV) solar panels in the home energy market. This innovative technology, dubbed the "F1 wind turbine," has generated significant buzz and interest among renewable energy enthusiasts and homeowners... Continue Reading →
Grassroots Rising
Original Post Date: 1.21.21 - Not all books age the same! We are facing a deteriorating state of public and personal health, a collapsing ecosystem as evidenced by the alarming rate of species extinction—and the clear failure of government agencies and politicians to address any of these emergencies. Should we throw up our hands and declare... Continue Reading →
Eat for the Planet
Eat For The Planet is the leading podcast covering the people, ideas, and technologies shaping the future of food. About: WE NEED A RADICAL CHANGE IN THE WAY WE PRODUCE, DISTRIBUTE, AND CONSUME FOOD IF WE WANT TO AVERT AN ECOLOGICAL CRISIS AND HAVE A THRIVING HUMAN POPULATION ON EARTH BY THE YEAR 2050. Eat... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 