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Project Drawdown: Accelerating Solutions to Global Warming
Project Drawdown lists some 100 solutions to achieve the time where we reduce the amount of greenhouse gases and begin to actually draw them down from the atmosphere. But solutions don’t just happen. The Drawdown Review 2020 (Pages 77-78) says: “’Accelerators’” … Continue reading
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Trump and Other Bad News for the Environment
We must keep pressing on even in spit of these rather depressing headlines from Inside Climate News: Besieged by Protesters Demanding Racial Justice, Trump Signs Order Waiving Environmental Safeguards As protests for racial justice roiled the nation, President Trump on … Continue reading
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Tagged EPA, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, greenhouse gases, Trump
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A Plant-Rich Diet & Reducing Greenhouse Gases
The grand shutdown has caused a 17 percent reduction in greenhouse gases, which is great. However, that means even this amazing life change still left us producing 83 percent as much greenhouse gases as in the past. Plus the predictions … Continue reading
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Tagged beef, diary, eat less, flexitarian, lamb, less red meat, Plant-Rich Diet, vegan, vegetarian
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Covid-19: Greenhouse Gases Down 17%, But…
The Washington Post reports the Covid-19 world shut down led to a startling decline of more than 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That includes a peak drop in daily emissions of 17 percent in early April, according to … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, greenhouse gases, Paris Accord
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Investor Prediction: Solar insanely, world-changingly cheap
Ramez Naam , author and solar investor, writes in part at his blog: Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted. And modeling of that price decline leads me to forecast that solar will continue to drop … Continue reading
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Tagged fossil fuels decline, Ramez Naam, renewables, solar predictions
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NYTimes: Renewable Energy Poised to Eclipse Coal in U.S.
A New York Times article by Brad Plumer notes that partly driven by Covid-19: The United States is on track to produce more electricity this year from renewable power than from coal for the first time on record. It adds: It … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, Decline of coal, energy predictions, renewables, wind power
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What Does Drawdown Mean?
We are gradually working out way through the recently released Drawdown Review 2020. So it makes sense to talk about what Drawdown means and why it is the focus of Project Drawdown. This from the Drawdown Review 2020 (Pages 8-11): … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon sinks, Drawdown Review 2020, greenhouse gases solutions, Greenhouse gases sources
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Drawdown Review for 2020 — Our Overview — Part I
One early inspiration for the Sandwich Climate Action Coalition was Project Drawdown and the 2017 book Drawdown. In March 2020, Project Drawdown released a 104-page Drawdown Review 2020, which updates the 2017 book to “respond nimbly to the rapidly evolving landscape … Continue reading
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Tagged Drawdown Project, Drawdown Review 2020, Save the Planet
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Covid-19 and the Future of Energy Use
Will the world wide decline in energy use, caused by the Covid-19 related economic slowdown, be a way to transition to clean energy or will the rebound be more use of fossil fuels? Here is key summary paragraph from … Continue reading
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Tagged energy predictions, fossil fuels decline, IEA
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Will Covid-19 Ruin Big Oil and Help Save the Climate?
The prevailing narrative is that big bad oil and the fossil fuel industry will prevail no matter how bad a business model it might be. A Guardian article weakens that assumption, by addressing: Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry and … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid-19, End of Fossil Fuel
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