Paul Hawken's Drawdown: The Movement to Reverse Global Warming Accelerates

During this illuminating talk & slideshow, Paul Hawken circles back with us 18 months after the launch of Project Drawdown, a living reseach effort to reduce & sequester carbon as outlined in his book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming.

What has the response to his extensive research been from global activists, political leaders and scientists around the world?

How are communities activating around Drawdown, and how can we come together to keep this critical movement spreading & accelerating?

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as a living research effort, Project Drawdown works with an international team of students & scientists to map, measure & model the one hundred most substantive solutions that can reverse global warming by reducing & sequestering greenhouse gases. tonight we learn how communities are activating around this template of possibility, as outlined in Mr. Hawken’s, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, the bestselling environmental book of 2017.

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Paul Hawken starts ecological businesses, writes about nature and commerce, and consults with heads of state and CEOs on climatic, economic and ecological regeneration. He has appeared on numerous media including the Today Show, Talk of the Nation, Bill Maher, and Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, and Business Week. He has written eight books including four national and NYT bestsellers: Growing a Business, The Ecology of Commerce, Blessed Unrest, and Drawdown (2017). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 2013 as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. President Clinton called Natural Capitalism one of the five most important books in the world. He is published in 50 countries and 30 languages. His latest book, Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming debuted April 18, 2017 as a #9 NYT bestseller. He is the founder of Project Drawdown, which works with over two hundred scholars, students, scientists, researchers, and activists to map, measure, and model the one hundred most substantive solutions that can cumulatively reverse global warming by reducing and sequestering greenhouse gases. He lives in Mill Valley, California in the Cascade Creek watershed with his wife and coyotes, bobcats, red-tail hawks and flocks of nuthatches.