1/28/2024 0 Comments Drawdown book review![]() Wind turbines - Microgrids - Geothermal - Solar farms - Rooftop solar - Wave and tidal - Concentrated solar - Biomass - Nuclear - Cogeneration - Micro wind - Alexander von Humboldt - Methane digesters - In-stream hydro - Waste-to-energy - Grid flexibility - Energy storage (utilities) - Energy storage (distributed) - Solar water - Food. ![]() |a Origins - Language - Numbers - Energy. |a xv, 240 pages : |b color illustrations |c 28 cm |a New York, New York : |b Penguin Books, |c |a Drawdown : |b the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming / |c edited by Paul Hawken. |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d BTCTA |d YDX |d BDX |d AZZPT |d OCLCF |d CLE |d FM0 |d OQX |d CZA |d R2A |d BLP |d IGA |d WEX |d OBE |d MKN |d CTU |d UKWOH |d XUN |d SFR |d BYV |d MXB |d CHILD |d OCLCQ |d TXSWM |d UPM |d WIMVL |d OCLCA |d CNCAR |d ORZ |d TEU |d NMC |d OCLCQ |d ZRW |d UCW |d CEF |d M4L |d CUY |d NDB |d RCL |d TS4 |d HCO |d UV0 |d FQG |d FQR |d SPP |d BUDAP |d VMY |d OCLCQ |d H4N |d OCLCQ |d WYU |d WKM |d OCLCQ |d BDP |d OCLCO |d GZW |d OCLCQ |d IAZ |d IL4J6 |d OCLCO |d KSU |d COW |b Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 |n SAN 201-3975 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"- of cover. 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. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. One hundred techniques and practices are described here-some are well known some you may have never heard of. ![]() Silvopasture is the 9th solution, but this might be something new in many people's vocabulary, including mine."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. Did you realise that about a third of the food raised and prepared globally is never eaten and that meat-centric diets produce one-fifth of global emissions? Accordingly, Reducing Food Waste and shifting to a Plant-Rich Diet scored the 3rd and 4th on the list respectively. This explains why the largest contribution to carbon dioxide drawdown over the next 30 years is not energy (246.14 gigatonnes) but food (321.93 gigatonnes). Twelve of the list's top 20 solutions involve food and land use. One solution that never made it onto the final list at all is biofuels. Hence, it is up to us to decide whether this solution with 'regrets' should be utilised. What the project cannot predict, however, is the life-cycle cost that considers the potential risks associated with accidents. In fact, it is ranked 20th because arguably, it can reduce carbon dioxide by 16.09 gigatonnes by 2050. Controversially, nuclear is also included. ![]() It is no surprise that Renewable Energy is in the top 20 on the list-second is Wind Turbines - Onshore eighth is Solar Farm 10th is Rooftop Solar and 18th is Geothermal. These are ideas and technologies that are considered to be still in the development stage or are not yet fully proven, like smart grids and marine permaculture. The remaining 20 solutions are in a separate category called Coming Attractions. It also includes discussions of the challenges that we are up against and the success stories of communities and governments that have implemented these solutions, making the book credible and informative. The book is persuasive in its arguments for why and how each solution should be put into practice. In addition to rankings, the solutions are presented alongside their implementation costs and operational savings, relative to business as usual. The solutions are ranked by the total number of gigatonnes of GHGs that they would be able to avoid or sequester from the atmosphere over the next three decades. They are broken into seven categories: energy food women and girls buildings and cities land use transport and materials. The top 80 solutions are already being carried out around the world.
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