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Project Drawdown

May 1st, 2017 at 7:00 pm – Paul Hawken will speak upon the release of Project Drawdown, a book containing the 100 most substantive solutions to roll back climate change, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world. 

Sponsored by Book Passage, the Environmental Forum of Marin, and Dominican University, and held at its Angelico Hall. The book will be included in the ticket. Tickets will be sold through Book Passage and are now available.

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author who has dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul Hawken has written seven books, which have been published in more than fifty countries and twenty-nine languages. Natural Capitalism, coauthored by Hawken, was cited by President Bill Clinton as one of the five most important books in the world. 

The Environmental Forum has been preparing informed environmental advocacy for 44 years, through its annual Fall Master Class, and Lecture Series in the Spring. See: MarinEFM.org 

Book Passage celebrated its 40th anniversary providing books, lectures, classes and author events in Nov, 2016. See: BookPassage.com and get your ticket soon. 

Project Drawdown: In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, including dozens of advisors and contributors, such as Berkeley Prof. Michael Pollan, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, and 350.org founder Bill McKibben, have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and methods are described here—some are well known, some you have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in the developing world 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 toward not just slowing the earth’s warming, but actually reaching drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to seize our planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world. See Drawdown.org


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