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: 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 →
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: 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 →
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