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In a full-page ad in the @nytimes organized by @ProjectDrawdown, 25 leading businesses across the economy are calling on the federal government to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. We have the solutions—and no time to waste. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction
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Project Drawdown has identified a list of 20 high-impact climate actions that individuals and households in high-income countries can take that together could reduce up to 25% of future greenhouse gases. Learn more: drawdown.org/news/insights/t…
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Total emissions for a white cotton shirt from field to customer are 80 lbs of CO2.
Hemp is a global warming solution, as it outproduces cotton or trees by factors of 10 to 100 times in terms of yielding usable fiber.
China already gets this.
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If consumers are given sustainability information on food labels, they’ll make greener dietary choices that benefit the environment, a new study proves.
via @AnthropoceneMag #climatechange #carbonfootprint
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Good news from New Zealand!
Politicians reached across the aisle this week to pass a historic bill aiming to get the country to zero emissions by 2050 and fulfill its commitments under the Paris Agreement. It CAN be done.
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Did you know that food-based emissions alone can use up our carbon budget for a year? Explore opportunities to change the trends, now. bit.ly/3lVxu4b
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Today, in a full page ad in the @nytimes organized by @ProjectDrawdown, 25 leading businesses across the economy are calling on the federal government to ACT NOW on the climate crisis. We have the solutions—and no time to waste. #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction
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We have the solutions to stop #climate change. Dive into the need-to-know science with global leaders in Climate Solutions 101, presented by @ProjectDrawdown. Start your FREE journey, today. 🌍 ☀️ 🌊 #ClimateSolutions #ClimateChange bit.ly/3rMtXFm
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Since 2010, wind power has dropped 49% in cost and solar plummeted 85%.
Within a decade it will be cheaper to build and operate new #renewable power plants than to keep operating existing fossil fuel plants.
via @thinkprogress #energy ow.ly/H9WI50uK7ER
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"But the climate crisis has already been solved. We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is to wake up and change."
RT @GretaThunberg: My TEDx talk has turned into a real TED talk:)
Thank you everyone for sharing!
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What are your favorite win-win climate solutions that have other benefits in addition to lowering greenhouse gas emissions?
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Climate Solutions at Work, presented by @ProjectDrawdown, is here! Explore this free how-to guide for employees looking to make every job a climate job. #ClimateAtWork
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This is great news: The US generated more electricity from #renewable sources than coal for the first time ever in April.
Clean energy such as solar and wind provided 23% of US electricity generation during the month, compared to coal’s 20%.
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Today we are excited to introduce The Drawdown Review, a comprehensive report containing updates to our research on #climate solutions.
Download your free copy: drawdown.org/drawdown-framew….
#DrawdownReview #Drawdown2020
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A third of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has been released through deforestation and agricultural practices such as plowing and using synthetic herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers. But plants can reverse that if we let them. gazettenet.com/Silvopasture-…
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BIG announcement! 📢Project Drawdown is hiring a “dream team” of 4-5 leading scientists—plus a Chief Scientist—to conduct top-quality research and provide world-leading insights on #climate solutions and strategies. Please share far and wide! drawdown.org/careers/chief-s…
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“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call." #WednesdayWisdom
― Naomi Klein
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Capable of carrying 30 vehicles + 200 passengers this all-electric Danish ferry is powered by a battery system with 4.3MWh capacity.
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Next year Italy will become the world’s first country to make it compulsory for school children to study #climate change and sustainable development. #climateeducation #stem
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"If food waste is halved in the next 30 years, according to Project Drawdown, the world will avoid emitting at least 10 gigatons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to taking 2,570 coal-fired power plants offline." washingtonpost.com/climate-s…
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LEGO reaches 100% renewable energy target three years ahead of schedule ow.ly/5tOH30ceoV9
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“We see #globalwarming, not as an inevitability but as an invitation to build, innovate, and effect change, a pathway that awakens creativity, compassion, and genius. This is not a liberal agenda, nor is it a conservative one. This is the human agenda.” ― @PaulHawken
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Two key actions:
1) Avoiding food overconsumption
2) Shifting to a plant-rich diet
What happens when we do both? More food and fewer carbon emissions for everyone! Here's what two food waste scenarios look like if half or 2/3rds of the world make those commitments:
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Germans are now flying less and using the train instead. A cut in long-distance train fares of 10% this year should make land-based travel even more alluring. ow.ly/kEhG50xROIj
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We must continue to find ways to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in the soil. Regenerative agriculture is a #Drawdown solution to stopping #globalwarming.
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Needed this today! 💪🏾 @patagonia
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We've made key #Drawdown2020 graphics available on our website — free for educational and press use.
Download yours here: ow.ly/E05E50BorC7
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“We will be less overwhelmed by our awareness of the problem when we each recognize our power to collectively solve it, share the tasks and enjoy working together for our common good," says @CrystalChissell of @ProjectDrawdown .
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"If in doubt, Project Drawdown provides a fantastic overview and some cold hard numbers for a lot of the most touted solutions to the crisis." treehugger.com/no-single-sol… #ClimateAction #ClimateSolutions
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Today we are thrilled to launch Drawdown Labs, a new consortium of visionary private sector partners working to go beyond ‘net zero’ to scale #climatesolutions in the world, within and beyond their own operations. Learn more: drawdown.org/programs/drawdo…
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"For too long we have undervalued our soils, and we have transferred their carbon into the air, rivers and seas. It’s time to recapture that carbon and reverse climate change in the process." Féidhlim Harty
#regenag #globalwarming ow.ly/y2No30nDeCB
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Happy #EarthDay everyone!
Our friends @CNN have designed an interactive quiz for you to see how much you know about @ProjectDrawdown solutions to stop climate change. #Drawdown
Take the quiz here: cnn.it/2KRl4JX
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Every school in #NewZealand will this year have access to materials about the climate crisis written by the country’s leading scientists – plus tools for students to plan their own activism, and to process feelings of “eco-anxiety”...
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“If business leaders truly grasped the seriousness of this crisis, they would immediately pivot their entire business models and resources toward scaling climate solutions full stop.” — @jabeckx in @guardian theguardian.com/environment/… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
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"Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time."
-Sir Winston Churchill
#fridaysforfuture
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After decades of deforestation, Costa Rica has reforested to the point that half of the country’s land surface is covered with trees again, absorbing CO2. Here's how they did it:
intelligentliving.co/costa-r… #reforestation
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Regenerative agriculture practices help to pull carbon from the air, store it in the soil, and makes the land more resilient to extreme weather. Methods include no-till, cover cropping, crop diversity, and maintaining a living root year-round.
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"While it’s great that there are more climate jobs than ever, it’s also important that people advocate for climate where they already are." — @sarahLazarovic, @yesmagazine, writing about Drawdown Labs' Climate Solutions at Work guide. yesmagazine.org/opinion/2022…
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Is today's #ClimateChange report from the @IPCC_CH bad? Yes. Should we give up hope? No, but we don't have a moment to lose. Now, more than ever, we have to #ActOnClimate and rapidly scale up #ClimateSolutions. theguardian.com/science/2021…
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🗣️ @KHayhoe can talk to ANYONE about climate change. She's spoken with congressional staffers, oil execs, college students, farmers, religious leaders, and everybody in between.
Here's how she talks to these very different audiences:
chatelaine.com/living/how-to…
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We are pleased to announce that world-renowned environmental scientist and science communicator Dr. Jonathan Foley @GlobalEcoGuy is joining #ProjectDrawdown as our next Executive Director, officially starting Oct. 1. Welcome Dr. Foley!
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As @GretaThunberg makes her way to the UN climate conference in New York in a zero-emissions yacht rather than a plane, @BBCRealityCheck asks:
What is the environmental impact of flying and how do trips by train, car or boat compare?
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Grazing with solar panels is a win-win for sheep and #solar developers. The panels themselves create shade that can keep the sheep cool on hot summer days, and the grazing animals eat the vegetation – reducing the need to mow.
ow.ly/inqQ50AcxNu via @CC_Yale
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In the first ruling of its kind nationwide, a Montana state court decided Monday in favor of young people who alleged the state violated their right to a “clean and healthful environment” by promoting the use of fossil fuels. washingtonpost.com/climate-e… #ClimateAction
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We are very excited to announce that Jamie Beck Alexander @jabeckx has joined @ProjectDrawdown as our inaugural director of Drawdown Labs. Please join us in welcoming Jamie!
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Drawdown solutions are a path to action on the @UN #GlobalGoals and "have co-benefits that help alleviate poverty, improve human and planetary health, eliminate hunger, reduce inequalities and promote gender equality,” says @ChadFrischmann. #ACT4SDGs bit.ly/2FNBbWE
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Project Drawdown’s mission is to help the world address climate change quickly, safely, and equitably.
At its core, our mission is about life.
We stand with #BlackLivesMatter and against racism.
Equity, justice, and climate solutions are not separate.
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When you hear "climate job," do you think of your role right now?
A lot of agency for implementing climate solutions belongs to the private sector, which is why we're launching a user-friendly guide for EMPLOYEES to use their power: Climate Solutions at Work! Stay tuned.
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A new paper in the journal Nature Sustainability analyzed the potential for carbon sequestration in soils and found it could, if properly managed, contribute a quarter of absorption on land. #carbonsink #sequester via @physorg_com
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RT @ErikSolheim
Norway 🇳🇴 disburses $80 million in aid for Guyana 🇬🇾 solar farms. Guyana has among the lowest deforestation rates in the world.
Solar helps keep Guyana green!
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The Earth’s atmosphere is like a bathtub filling up with greenhouse gasses. We need to turn off the tap as soon as possible by reducing emissions across the economy.
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Coastal wetlands can store 5 times as much carbon as tropical forests over the long term.
Protecting 6.1-7.2 million hectares and allowing natural regrowth to occur can sequester 0.99-1.1 gigatons of CO2 by 2050. #WorldOceansDay #carbonsink
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Green roofs are veritable ecosystems in the sky.
Soil and vegetation function as living insulation, moderating building temperatures year-round—cooler in summer, warmer in winter, making them a #Drawdown2020 solution to #climate change. ow.ly/kba650yFota
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Existing #climatesolutions help achieve ALL @UN #GlobalGoals. This article explains. bit.ly/2FNBbWE #ACT4SDGs #SDGs #SDGActionZone #ClimateWeekNYC @GlobalGoals @ChadFrischmann
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Reducing our consumption of meat, and adopting a plant-rich diet continues to be one of the most effective #Drawdown2020 solutions to #climate change.
Find out why here: ow.ly/aRhJ50yFpTI. #foodwaste
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A new generation of growers have embraced “carbon farming,” meaning practices that allow the soil on farms to trap and store more carbon dioxide.
Here's how they're doing it.
via @NexusMediaNews ow.ly/B8wH30ohKJz
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Pakistani PM Imran Khan has promised to plant 10 billion trees over the next 5 years to recover much of the 70% of Pakistan's forests cut down in recent years. Forest protection is a Drawdown solution to climate change. ow.ly/t3Ok30o8Pg0
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Building out a renewable energy infrastructure will cost $3.5 billion and yield $2.8 billion in savings from avoided climate change impacts. It will also result in $4.7 billion in health benefits from avoided medical bills and lost wages.
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"According to Project Drawdown, regenerative agriculture could provide a lifetime net profit gain of $135-$206 billion with an initial investment of $79-$116 billion." forbes.com/sites/forbesbusin…
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Biochar is a form of charcoal produced when organic matter – for example wood, leaves or dead plants – is heated at high temperatures with little or no oxygen in a process called pyrolysis.
#Biochar is a #Drawdown solution to stopping #globalwarming.
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Cement is a vital source of strength in infrastructure, second only to water as one of the most used substances in the world. It is also a source of emissions, generating 5 to 6% annually, making alternative cement a #climatesolution. #buildbackbetter
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To keep the planet cool, we need grasses in #subpolar regions, not trees. You get grasses when you reintroduce herbivores.
That is what Sergey & Nikita Zimov, Russian father-and-son scientists are doing to protect the world’s permafrost. ow.ly/2B7d30nKmBl
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Microgrids are nimble, efficient microcosms of the big grid, designed for smaller, diverse energy sources. #Microgrids are a @ProjectDrawdown solution to #ClimateChange. drawdown.org/solutions/micro… #renewables
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People in rich nations must change the foods they eat in order to feed 10 billion people, says a new report #COP24.
How? Increase the amount of food produced per hectare, reduce meat-eating, & stop wasting 1/3 of food produced. #DrawdownSolutions ow.ly/2PSa30mSIcs
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Following in the footsteps of Toronto, San Francisco, Denver, and Portland, Oregon, all new residential and commercial buildings in New York City must top roofs with either plants, solar panels, mini wind turbines—or a combination of all three. ow.ly/JfVV30oFn6o
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France to ban all new oil and gas exploration in favor of renewable energy
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At Project Drawdown, we replace "fighting" with "stopping," as in this article from @sciam:
The Best Technology for STOPPING Climate Change Isn't a Technology - forests are the most powerful and efficient carbon-capture system on the planet. ow.ly/1lm330mTrPF
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The most frequently asked question we hear @ProjectDrawdown is,
"What can I do?"
As the sun rises on a new year, our hearts and minds are at work to provide as many answers as possible, focusing on actions with the greatest impact to stop #globalwarming. Stay with us.
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For the first time since the 1880s, Britain has gone its longest stretch this year without using coal to keep the lights on. ow.ly/2lit50wVZIE
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Follow these female climate leaders on Twitter. @ArthurWyns has compiled a list of 25 inspirational women who will be shaping the climate agenda in 2019, via @The_Ecologist. #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2019 ow.ly/EBMD30nYn9C
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We can only solve the #climatecrisis if women and girls, half of the world’s population, have equal access to education and decision-making bodies at all levels.
President #JimmyCarter with @KarinDianeRyan of @CarterCenter ow.ly/20Oa50xocc7
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📢 We haven’t truly had a science-based plan for addressing the climate crisis … until now. Introducing The Drawdown Roadmap. Watch the 5-part video series and learn more today! drawdown.org/drawdown-roadma… #ClimateCrisis #ClimateSolutions #ClimateAction #DrawdownRoadmap
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"We do need hope, of course we do. But the one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come."
ow.ly/CDw130ooaar @GretaThunberg #WednesdayWisdom
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Seaweed pouch containers used during the @LondonMarathon on April 28 helped to reduce the use of hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles. #LondonMarathon ow.ly/8uqh30oCvov
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Wondering how to act on #climate solutions?
Seek out organizations that focus on food waste, forest protection and restoration, girls’ education or carbon pollution, @CrystalChissell of @ProjectDrawdown tells @susan_shain in @NYTimes. @nytclimate
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A broad and growing group of agriculture officials, farmers, and climate activists are promoting #silvopasture. Not only does it increase soil health and productivity, but it also pulls #carbon out of the atmosphere – lots of it.
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Every job is a #climate job. Why? Climate impacts every facet of our lives, and also because corporations have the agency to implement climate solutions.
How have you made climate action part of your job? 👇 👇 👇
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Japan just launched its first urban train service that relies entirely on renewable energy. CO2 emissions from the Setagaya Line were 1,065 tons in 2017. Using renewable energy will reduce the figure effectively to zero. #masstransit ow.ly/hoL130obaSq
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Climate solutions aren't about finding a silver bullet (or a single answer). They call for both/and thinking. It's about understanding how a multifaceted approach to climate action can create change, building collective momentum. ⚡
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About 1,000 #Australian engineers and 90 organizations – including large firms and respected industry figures – have signed a declaration to “evaluate all new projects against the environmental necessity to mitigate #climate change”.
By @BenSmee ow.ly/a2Pe50wQlZg
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Fungi play an important role in #Drawdown solutions to #globalwarming. We are excited to learn that the first field trials using #fungi to reduce #carbon in the atmosphere are under way in Australia, via @CosmosMagazine: ow.ly/R8xu30n5VOe
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Be moved. Be inspired. Be optimistic. Today, our future is in the right hands.
A photo tour of the #climatestrike #fridaysforfuture #schoolstrike4climate. ow.ly/GuBy30o44Rw
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Retrofitting buildings with insulation is a cost-effective solution for reducing energy required for heating and cooling.
If 54% of existing buildings install insulation, 8.3 gigatons of emissions can be avoided. Read more of our findings: ow.ly/x7tq30npHTX
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Greta Thunberg leaves the United States with simple #climate crisis message: VOTE. @GretaThunberg
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The notion of “silver bullets” has persistent appeal—“what’s the one big thing we can do?”—but they simply don’t exist for complex problems such as the climate crisis. A whole system of solutions is required. drawdown.org/solutions
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From 1976 to 2019, the cost of a photovoltaic module—a solar panel—dropped from $106 per watt to $0.38 per watt. fastcompany.com/90583426/the…
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What happens when solar installations and regenerative grazing are combined?
Agrivoltaics - where solar panels are mounted 7 feet off the ground to let farmers or cows wander underneath. @Shemkus explains these #climatesolutions @CivilEats ow.ly/sw9N30npvVX
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"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
-- Jane Goodall #WednesdayWisdom
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A new 60-acre high-tech greenhouse in #Appalachia is designed to bring back local, full time jobs while shrinking the environmental footprint of delivering food to cities like Wash DC and Nashville. #farmingnow @AppHarvest
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This list of "16 Awe-Inspiring & Brave Women Who Are Fighting For Our Future & Against Climate Change" includes @DrKWilkinson of @ProjectDrawdown! ow.ly/1t0J50wEe0h via @indiatimes
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"Educating girls, together with family planning, is listed by Project Drawdown as the fifth most impactful solution we have, if we want to limit global heating to 1.5C." wired.co.uk/article/educatin…
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"These are the 76 climate solutions we need to scale up right now to have a chance," @adelepeters talks with @GlobalEcoGuy for @FastCompany on our latest #Drawdown #climate solutions research results.
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Today we salute the young people who are exercising their rights of peaceful assembly and freedom of speech in expressing the urgency and importance of stopping #globalwarming and #climatechange: ow.ly/2knA30o3GaO #climatestrike #FridayForFuture
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Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work for the climate by restoring habitats such as forests and wetlands, which absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and help biodiversity thrive.
@StephenWoroniec talks with @GeorgeMonbiot: ow.ly/N6nB30ooRsv
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While limited in area, coastal wetlands contain large carbon sinks; protecting them would secure an estimated 15 gigatons of carbon, equivalent to over 53 gigatons of CO2 if released into the atmosphere. A Drawdown #climate solution. ow.ly/rykb30o12xy
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Building with wood has 2 key climate benefits:
1. Growing trees absorb and sequester carbon, which remains stored in timber construction materials.
2. Producing those materials generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions than cement or steel.
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“Greater adoption of a wider array of perennial vegetables could help to address some of the central, interlocking issues of the 21st century: climate change, biodiversity, and nutrition.” #Drawdown senior fellow @EricToensmeier in @CivilEats. ow.ly/Ff6v50B3L7L
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