Drawdown

Paul Hawken's climate plan gathers 100 solutions to global warming, ranks them by how much greenhouse gas each could cut, and gives each a cost estimate and a short description. Developed with an international coalition of researchers, scientists and professionals, the solutions are grouped under energy, land use, food, transport, materials, buildings and cities, and women and girls, plus a set of coming attractions. Examples include educating girls in lower-income countries, clean energy, and land practices that pull carbon from the air. Deployed together over thirty years, the authors argue, they could reach drawdown, the point when atmospheric greenhouse gases peak and start to fall. Published in 2017, it became a New York Times bestseller.

Peter Kareiva, director of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, endorsed it as an ideal environmental sciences textbook too interesting to be called one, and Happy Family founding partner Jessica Rolph called it optimistic and empowering.