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This website is a project of the Sandwich Climate Action Coalition of Sandwich, NH.
Category Archives: Resources
A Trend: Decarbonizing Atmosphere Will Boost Economy
We have been saying it for a while, but it is again reinforced in this Atlantic Magazines Weekly Planet newsletter: taken together…the world’s most powerful financial institutions believe that the future is decarbonized—and that, far from hurting the economy, climate action … Continue reading
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Tagged European Union, hydrofluorocarbons, US Congress
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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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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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Inspiration, Part II: The Drawdown Project
The Drawdown Project helped SCCC steering committee members Katherine Thorndike and Leonard Witt visualize the possibilities for attacking global warming on individual and societal levels. Its vision statement inspires us most: Stopping global warming is possible, with solutions that exist … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 global warming solutions, Drawdown Agenda, Drawdown Project, greenhouse gases
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Pachamama: What Inspires Us, Part I
Katherine Thorndike, who along with Leonard Witt and Peggy Longley, all of Sandwich and all on the steering committee, pointed us to the Pachamama Alliance. Here is why it inspires us: Pachamama Alliance, empowered by our partnership with indigenous people, … Continue reading
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