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The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world

“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming

“There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox

“This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

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. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

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“At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.”
—Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming

“There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.”
—David Roberts, Vox

“This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.”
—Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA

“Drawdown is not just a project—it is an adventure. It is a promising story that has the potential to engage every person on the planet with at least one solution to climate change, whether it is educating girls, improved rice cultivation, creating walkable cities, eating a plant-rich diet, household recycling, or any of the other solutions.”
—Karen O'Brien, cCHANGE

“Drawdown is an exceptional example of cooperation between some of the sharpest thinkers on climate and energy matters, an atlas that has the potential to save the planet.”
—Andreas Kuhlmann, CEO German Energy Agency

“It will give you the best kind of hope, the kind that balances realism with radical vision. . . . Stabilizing the climate system will require a heroic global effort, but the point here is only to show that . . . such an effort can do more than merely succeed; that it can succeed well, and open into futures that we can actually bear to contemplate.”
—Tom Athanasiou, The Nation

“The Paul Hawken presentation I just experienced at Telluride Mountainfilm was simply the best speech I have ever heard. And, not so incidentally, also the most important. To come at the world’s most important issue in an entirely novel fashion is a monumental feat.”
— Tom Peters, American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence

“In the course of 20-some years of investigating and writing about global warming I’ve become all too familiar with that dynamic of gloom/doom/shame/fear/apathy, and I think Hawken has put his finger on exactly why we haven’t made more policy progress. The biggest anchor dragging behind this boat isn’t climate denial or even indifference but, I suspect, the almost unspeakably deep, defeatist conviction that no response really matters because we are already so thoroughly screwed. I’m vulnerable to that despair at times and maybe you are, too. If so, read this book — not just as an antidote to fear and despair but as foundation for understanding and supporting the kinds of change that really could be coming, and at every scale from your household to your company, your community, your county and state and national government.”
—Ron Meador, MinnPost

“I am blown away by Drawdown. Like hearing an advance copy of Sergeant Pepper, back in the day.”
—John Elkington, CEO Volans, author and world authority on sustainable development

“Be kindly unto the scientists, for they may just save our skin—and make us happier and wealthier in the bargain. . . . An optimistic program for getting out of our current mess, well deserving of the broadest possible readership.”
—Kirkus Review

“A rigorous and profoundly important resource.”
—Donna Seaman, Booklist

“With a climate-denying party controlling the government, it can seem that there’s no hope. . . . But a new book might change that—and serve as a blueprint for what comes next if the U.S. government (and the global community) begins to aggressively focus on altering the climate future. Drawdown is likely the most comprehensive model of climate solutions ever made.”
—Fast Company

“Drawdown is a magnificent achievement.”
—Greg Watson, Schumacher Center for New Economics

“This is one of the most powerful, hopeful, world-changing documents. A deeply peer reviewed, fully win-win, nearly no-regrets pathway . . . with a surprising ranking of the most important and impactful solutions. Paul Hawken’s simple, elegant genius in leading this approach, can inspire rapid, catalytic action. ”
—Andy Lipkis, TreePeople

“A bold plan to beat back climate change based on solutions already within our grasp.”
—Outside Magazine

“At a time when the Trump administration is working to dismantle much of the nation’s efforts to minimize climate change, Paul Hawken’s new book swoops onto the scene like a knight in shining armor. . . . The book’s release couldn’t possibly come at a better time. Refreshingly absent of political analysis, it’s grounded in scientific reality and will likely go a long way toward inciting people to action.”
—The Portland Tribune

“Drawdown is likely the most hopeful thing you’ll ever read about our ability to take on global warming.”
—Joel Makower, GreenBiz

“This book is a beautiful, inspiring, and deeply satisfying read. Most importantly it is no more doom and gloom. It is OPTIMISTIC and empowering. Paul Hawken is a true visionary and a brilliant voice for real solutions.”
—Jessica Rolph, Founding Partner, Happy Family

“It’s so brilliant . . . a showstopper.”
—Donald A. Falk, PhD, Associate Professor School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona

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Paul Hawken is an author and activist. He has founded successful, ecologically-conscious businesses, and consulted with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. He has written seven books including four national bestsellers: The Next Economy, Growing a Business, and The Ecology of Commerce, and Blessed Unrest. The Ecology of Commerce was voted as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the most important books in the world at that time. He has served on the board of many environmental organizations including Center for Plant Conservation, Shelburne Farms, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society.

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Foreward

As a climate scientist, it’s disheartening to witness world events unfold as they have over the past few decades. The clear and precise warnings we scientists have made about our planet’s changing climate are materializing as predicted. Greenhouse gases are trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere, producing warmer seasons and an amped-up water cycle.

Warmer air holds more moisture, allowing for higher rates of evaporation and precipitation. Record heat waves, coupled with intense droughts, spark the perfect conditions for massive wildfires. Warming oceans trigger supercharged storms, with greater rainfall and higher storm surges. We can expect a steady rise in extreme weather events in the coming decades, potentially causing countless lost lives and significant financial losses.

Whether we like it or not—whether we choose to “believe” the science or not—the reality of climate change is upon us. It’s affecting everything: not just weather patterns, ecosystems, ice sheets, islands, coastlines, and cities across the planet, but the health, safety, and security of every person alive and the generations to come. Worldwide, we’re seeing related symptoms like the acidification of our oceans, which could devastate coral reefs and marine life, and the changing biochemistry of plants, including staple crops.

We know exactly why this is happening. We’ve known for more than a hundred years.

When we burn fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas), manufacture cement, plow rich soils, and destroy forests, we release heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air. Our cattle, rice fields, landfills, and natural gas operations release methane, warming the planet even more. Other greenhouse gases, including nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases, are seeping out of our agricultural lands, industrial sites, refrigeration systems, and urban areas, compounding the greenhouse effect. It’s important to remember that climate change stems from many sources such as energy production, agriculture, forestry, cement, and chemical manufacturing; thus, the solutions must arise from those same many sources.

Beyond the damage to our planet, climate change threatens to undermine our social fabric and the foundations of democracy. We see the impacts of this in the United States in particular, where key parts of the federal government are denying the science, and are closely aligned with fossil fuel industries. While most people continue to move through their day as if nothing is wrong, others who are aware of the science are fearful, if not in despair. The climate change narrative has become a doom and gloom story, causing people to experience denial, anger, or resignation.

At times, I have been one of those people.

Thanks to Drawdown, I have a different perspective. Paul Hawken and his colleagues have researched and modeled the one hundred most substantive ways we can reverse global warming. These solutions reside in energy, agriculture, forests, industries, buildings, transportation, and more. They also highlight critical social and cultural solutions, such as empowering girls, reducing population growth, and changing our diets and consumption patterns. Together, these solutions not only slow climate change, they can reverse it.

Drawdown goes beyond solar panels and energy-efficient light bulbs to show that the needed solutions are far more diverse than just those associated with clean energy, and that there are many effective means to address global warming. Drawdown illustrates how we can make dramatic strides by reducing the emissions of more exotic greenhouse gases, like refrigerants and black carbon, lowering nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture, cutting methane emissions from cattle production, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation. Moreover, Drawdown demonstrates the potential for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through innovative land use practices, regenerative agriculture, and agroforestry.

But, more importantly to me, Drawdown illuminates ways we can overcome the fear, confusion, and apathy surrounding climate change, and take action as individuals, neighborhoods, towns and cities, states, provinces, businesses, investment firms, and non-profits. This book should become the blueprint for building a climate-safe world. By modeling solutions that are hands-on, well understood, and already scaling, Drawdown points to a future where we can reverse global warming and leave a better world for new generations.

We think that our climate future is harsh because news and reports have focused on what will happen if we do not act. Drawdown shows us what we can do. Because of that, I think this is the single most important book ever written about climate change.

Drawdown has helped restore my faith in the future, and in the capacity of human beings to solve incredible challenges. We have all the tools we need to combat climate change, and thanks to Paul and his colleagues, we now have a plan showing us how to use them.

Now let’s get to work and do it.

Dr. Jonathan Foley Executive Director, California Academy of Sciences San Francisco

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0143130447
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books (April 18, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780143130444
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143130444
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1280L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.02 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.8 x 8.4 x 10.7 inches

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Paul Hawken has written eight books published in over 50 countries in 32 languages including five national and NYT bestsellers--The Next Economy, Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, Drawdown, and Regeneration. He has appeared on the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, Bill Maher and been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, and Esquire. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, and Orion. He founded several companies including Erewhon, the first food company in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He has served on the board of several environmental organizations including Point Foundation (publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs), Center for Plant Conservation, Trust for Public Land, Conservation International, and National Audubon Society. He lives with his wife, flocks of nuthatches, red tail hawks, and coyotes in the Cascade Canyon watershed in Northern California. Go to www.regegeration.org to see upcoming speaking events, and www.paulhawken.com for a more extensive biography.

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“Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.” ( H. G. Wells)

F-ing truth!
How do you know what you believe is true?!
Young people say: “You put it to a test!”
Well, who among us are in the busines of testing?
F-ing Scientists!
Among many nasty things they were doing for the past one hundred years, they were “screaming and yelling” about the climate change…
And what are they doing now?
They are washing their hands and putting the masks on.
They are also, kindly advising us to do the same…
By now, almost every one of us heard notions: “world is what you believe it to be”, or “your perception defines your reality”, or “self-fulfilling prophecy” and the favorite notion of the “new age”: - “you create your reality”. That “common knowledge” has saturated our culture, becoming so trivial and notorious, that more and more of us even feel nausea when we hear those expressions. Almost like the notion: “climate change”.
However, even those of us who don’t trust politicians, journalists and even scientists, are forced to acknowledge that even in the course of their own relatively short life, the world has changed very drastically in so many ways. The extent of the change, however, is a “half of the problem”. The real kicker is; the world is continuing to change faster and faster. Not many parents are excited about the future of their children as much as they were excited about their own future. It would be tragic to assume that the new generation, in general, is not excited about their own future.
And our best people have been working on it day and night.
By now we, people, know what is happening and we even know why exactly it is happening. We’ve known that for more than hundred years. We don’t need another “scientific argument” that the change is affecting everything: not only weather patterns, ecosystems, ice sheets, islands, coastlines, and cities across the planet, but the health, safety and security of every person alive and the generations to come.
Many books have been written, excellent movies and documentaries about the forward escape promised by our technologies. Some argue: “too many”!
We don’t want that knowledge simply because we don’t know what to do about it!
In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals and scientists has come together to offer a set of realistic and bold pragmatic solutions to the problems that manifest themselves today not only on global but already on individual scale. One hundred techniques and practices have been described in the book published in 2017. The solutions were ranked based on: how cost effective they are; how quickly they can be implemented; or how beneficial they are to society. The relative importance of one solution may differ depending on geography, economic conditions, or sector.
Well, one thing you need is to start somewhere.
Where do you start?

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P. Schmidt-Pathmann

Some good stuff - only disappointing getting facts correct

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Has some good points but also seems as promoting specifics that leave to wonder if special interests had their hand in promoting certain advantages/disadvantages - or lessen their stated impact.
I am a big proponent to stop climate change/slow it down as much as possible.
I am also a big proponent of Zero Waste.
My expertise is dealing with waste.
I was very much looking forward to the book.
I am quite disappointed in the sections about Waste to Energy and Landfilling in that you FAILED to portrait the most important aspect of landfilling - the future cost and the future environmental impact of landfills. They are engineered structures and they will fail (could have yesterday - even the best - and we might not see the impact until it is too late). You are correct that WTE should serve as an interim solution as our priority should be to avoid waste all together. However, that is utopian for now, never the less should be our goal and focus to getting to.
I am disappointed in the write-up/portrait of landfills as they are the real beast that need to be fed. Landfills should be priced adequately in order to promote the development of alternatives that are much more expansive - you get what you pay for (cheap = low quality/less of a sustainable solution). Currently, this book plays into the hands of the landfill industry and I am very concerned that the someone in the process of putting this book together received a check either directly or indirectly to lessen the language on the real problem - in this case landfills! Our recycling rates are very low and often stated false. A stated 50% recycling rate is likely significantly lower because there are substantial limits to recycling starting from single bin collection (at source much more efficient) to selling this often low-quality stuff to brokers which then erase all traceability.
Working with international agencies, environmental organizations and research engines and political parties (i.e. German Green Party - who thus far has been one of the only tangible entities in the political environmental field that adequately addressed landfills: black boxes, least sustainable, feature problems for many generations and WTE being part of the solutions just as waste avoidance and recycling -> on the road to zero waste.
On the road to zero waste cheap, inadequate priced landfills (ex: below $100 or possibly $200) are the real reason why we are still a long, long road from zero waste to landfill.
It was also stated that companies like Interface, Subaru, Toyota and Google have committed to zero landfill and yet these 'statements' usually depend on what the vendor/landfill companies aka conveniently also now the 'recycling' companies state such as that all is recycled etc. - which simply isn't the case - maybe 1/2. A real commitment can only happen once we realize that landfilling, especially cheap landfilling like in the US, is seen as the foundation of the problem (other than economic growth/our orientation toward consuming and the whole engine behind that).
Further, the authors need to get their facts straight regarding technologies: it was stated in the Impact conclusion of WTE chapter page 29, to employing more advanced technologies, such as plasma gasification – that is yet a technology that continues to fail to show it actually works. This can be backed up by numerus publications from technology INDEPENDENT research engines. Employing non-working technologies such as plasma gasification will result in significantly more harm to the environment than proven mass burn incineration technology. Again, was there a payment involved from the vendor? Don’t want to insult the authors/publishers but get your facts straight!
WTE produces 10 times more energy than if the 'waste' is landfilled (US EPA). Further, for each ton treated at a modern state of the art WTE (incineration - sounds evil ... incineration... but considering the fluegas treatment technology available today and the ability to recovery metals, glas, etc - much better and less evil than landfills that are more or less just organized holes in the ground (using best available technologies of bottom liners and top caps landfill gas collection system horizontal vertical etc etc) versus being landfilled minimum of one ton of CO2 is avoided (using IPCC numbers - newest IPCC 5th. assessment is substantial higher than 1 ton).
Further, there is a large distinction between bottom ash and fly ash. Fly ash is less than 5% of ingoing waste. Bottom ash, if processed correctly and kept separate from fly ash can be used safely as an aggregate.
Landfilling, not WTE is the problem!!!! And yes, zero waste, not producing it in the first place is key – but cheap landfilling does not make such developments economical.
Waste is a resource (like in the EU) and in the US, we still see waste as waste, which also contributes to the misunderstanding about landfilling.
Good points in the book but get your facts straight!!!!

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Extremely disappointing

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If you need a feel-good coffee table book, then this is it. If you're after real, properly documented descriptions of realistic solutions addressing the climate catastrophe, then this book is a waste of trees. The book does not even begin to explain the calculations behind the emission reduction claims. The proposed solutions are also in no specific order, which is very odd. You'd think they would sort the solutions by possible impact, but no..

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One of the most useful books I have ever read

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The authors due not gloss over the potential looming disaster that climate change represents.They do present a granular analysis of the muliple causes of climate change and potential solutions and mitigations. It is informative, empowering and ultimately hopeful. I learned loads and was particularly struck by the many win/win solutions that can reduce emissions, improve biodiversity, improve the lives of poor communities and/or save money over all. Potentially a book to inform the diference any one can make through life style changes, giving money and campaigning. Also a very good book for young adults or students thinking about career and other life choices.

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So much literature on global warming is focused on the catastrophic and apocalyptic consequences of our actions. This book flips it to what we can do, and gives hope for the future through some science based, tangible, realistic improvements which can help secure our future on this planet. This book isn’t for tree huggers, it’s for anyone who has a stake in humanity sticking around in a habitable world for the long term. 10/10

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The best book on solutions for global warming

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I love this book. The authors painstakingly compiled research to identify and quantify the impacts of the top 100 solutions to not only stop climate change, but to go beyond and reverse it. Hugely optimistic and ambitious, but grounded in reality. They made a huge effort to err on the conservative side with their projections of the future. The best bit? - Contained within this book is a blueprint to stop and reverse global warming in the next 30 years. Using EXISTING technology. Now we need the political will to make it happen.

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A wonderful book.

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This is a wonderful book that shows that with the right use of technology and tested techniques of farming, animal husbandry, and education, global warming can be effectively combated and reversed, without consequential shrinkage or excessive loss. Many of the techniques here actually save money compared to the costs of not doing them. Should be required reading of governments, politicians and educators worldwide.

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