Drawdown
the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming
by Paul Hawken, Christopher Solimene · first published 2017
69% recommend31% neutral
Why HN recommends it
Organized, stack-ranked overview of about 100 climate solutions with impact rankings and cost savings for each; suits readers new to climate change who want a clear map of options.
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"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 coll
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on “What Happens Now That China Won't Take U.S. Recycling” ↗…you're (rightly) concerned about climate change there is a lot you can do. Here are three good resources. Bret Victor's "What can a technologist do about climate change" is wonderful tech overview [0]. "Drawdown", a recent book which enumerates and stack-ranks the wide array of techniques we have which return the atmosphere to a safe composition. [1] Finally, a self-pitch, we just launched our new site, ClimateAction.tech…
on “2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth” ↗…Uninhabitable Earth look at and warn about the most dangerous model. Others, like the IPCC, try to look at them broadly. Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know by Joseph Romm is a great read. Very basic. Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken is a good follow up for understanding what is necessary and what can be done. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses,…
on “Antarctic ice cliffs may not contribute to sea-level rise as much as predicted” ↗The book Project Drawdown is a good primer, with pictures! [1] After that, the My Climate Journey [2] and Work on Climate [3] communities are excellent entry points. Climate is a big buffet full of all sorts of cool problems…
on “A new carbon capture plant will pull 36k tons of CO2 from the air each year” ↗…been spending a lot of time exploring ways I can help with climate change. Here is what I have been doing: * Reading a lot! I recommend Bill Gates' "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" and Paul Hawken's "Drawdown". The path to zero carbon emissions seems impossible, but the more I read, the more the solutions seem intertwined, which gives me hope. * Writing down my ideas and the information I learn. Helps me…
on “Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?” ↗Some of that work about possible solutions has been done by Paul Hawken. His Project Drawdown book is at least an organized and reasoned list of 100 possibilities. I attended a talk about one of them - marine permaculture arrays. This is a body of working knowledge developed over the past thirteen…
on “What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?” ↗The best resource I know of is the book Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, available in print or online. It includes short essays on things we can do and includes impact rankings and cost savings for each. One of the many things I like about it is that…
on “Global Warming of 1.5 ºC” ↗…evolving context of a farm and land stewardship. I could imaging you would enjoy reading <teaming with microbes> about the life of soils. Paul Hawken does a great job explaining a broader scene with <Drawdown> and <Regeneration> George Monbiot writes a fascinating book <Regenesis> but comes to my understanding to the wrong conclusion. Planetary Boundaries is my go to reference and the documentary on netflix…
on “Reintroducing bison on tallgrass prairie doubles plant diversity” ↗…climate change. "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert:This Pulitzer-winning, discussing the ongoing mass extinction driven by human activity, including climate change. "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" edited by Paul Hawken: This book compiles and evaluates solutions to climate change. It's worth mentioning that understanding climate…
on “Is Mastodon mainly for far left?” ↗…escape, doing vast damage. HFCs trap between 1,000 and 9,000 times as much heat as the same amount of CO2, meaning they are much more potent causes of global warming. On this basis, Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, a think-tank, calculates that improving air-conditioners could do more than anything else to reduce greenhouse gases.
on “Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost” ↗…to see it mentioned. "HFCs trap between 1,000 and 9,000 times as much heat as the same amount of CO2, meaning they are much more potent causes of global warming. On this basis, Paul Hawken of Project Drawdown, a think-tank, calculates that improving air-conditioners could do more than anything else to reduce greenhouse gases."
on “Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost” ↗I've been reading "Drawdown: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming" edited by Paul Hawken https://www.drawdown.org/the-book My impression so far is that offshore wind, onshore wind, and solar are…
on “Nuclear energy is a vital part of solving the climate crisis” ↗Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, on pages 54-55. Short of it is: “When soil is tilled and exposed to the air, the life within it decays quickly and carbon is emitted.” Jumping to the end, the solution is permaculture.
on “Interview with a farmer using John Deere's new autonomous tractor (3 min video)” ↗