What if we took out more greenhouse gases than we put into the atmosphere? This hypothetical scenario, known as "drawdown," is our only hope of averting climate disaster, says strategist Chad Frischmann. In a forward-thinking talk, he shares solutions to climate change that exist today -- conventional tactics like the use of renewable energy and... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: FARMLAND RESTORATION
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #23 14.08 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $72.2 BILLION NET COST $1.34 TRILLION NET SAVINGS Around the world, farmers are walking away from lands that were once cultivated or grazed because those lands have been “farmed out.” Agricultural practices depleted fertility, eroded soil, caused compaction, drained groundwater, or created salinity by over-irrigation.... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: New Leaders Making Big Moves
Official Title: New Leaders Making Big Moves: The Culture-makers Opening Up New Possibilities for Climate Action Traditionally we’ve looked toward politicians and business leaders to take the climate action the world needs. But today, we need to look to new leaders and new sectors to make big moves. In this panel, we’ll use the live... 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 →
ENERGY | ENERGY STORAGE (DISTRIBUTED) RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #77 AN ENABLING TECHNOLOGY—COST AND SAVINGS ARE EMBEDDED IN RENEWABLE ENERGY There is an energy transition under way, one as radical as the adoption of caol, oil, and gas at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Most would describe the transformation as the shift away... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: Energy Storage Distributed…
Project Drawdown: SILVOPASTURE
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #9 31.19 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 $41.6 BILLION NET COST $699.4 BILLION NET SAVINGS Cows and trees do not belong together—so says conventional wisdom. And why should it not be? In Brazil and elsewhere, headlines condemn ranching as a driver of mass deforestation and attendant climate change. But the practice of... Continue Reading →
There’s a hard truth about climate change: Meeting the Paris Accords—and limiting global warming to 1.5˚C or “well below” 2˚C—requires we stabilize emissions and then cut them nearly in half by the end of the decade. Unfortunately, we’re falling behind. And many climate solutions can’t be deployed quickly enough to help. But some can. We... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: Hitting the “Emergency Brake” on Climate
Project Drawdown: IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION
RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #24 (IMPROVED RICE CULTIVATION) 11.34 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $519.1 BILLION NET SAVINGS RANKING AND RESULTS BY 2050 #53 (SYSTEM OF RICE INTENSIFICATION) 3.13 GIGATONS REDUCED CO2 NO ADDITIONAL COSTS REQUIRED $677.8 BILLION NET SAVINGS Vietnamese poet Phan Van Tri writes of rice grains: “They leave rice... Continue Reading →
Project Drawdown: PLANT-RICH DIET
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 →
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