Intro to Project Drawdown

August 29, 2019

Project Drawdown (drawdown.org) is a framework consisting of 80 solutions organized into 7 industries. 

For instance the #1 solution for reducing greenhouse gases is Refrigerants in the Materials sector.  Refrigeration uses chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) to keep things cool.  HFC substitutes are already on the market including natural refrigerants such as propane and ammonia.

#3 Solution is Reduced Food Waste.  From what this author understands, at least in the U.S., approximately 30% of waste that goes into a landfill is food!!  This is a solution that can be incorporated by the individual, businesses all the way back to the production end.

As you look at your lifestyle find the "solutions" that you think you or your business can incorporate.

The Pachamama Alliance offers workshops and intro webinars to Project Drawdown.  There is also a book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming;  Edited by Paul Hawken; copyright 2017;  The Project Drawdown website, is more about the solutions, but implementation can be done by anyone, it is not a framework that has to be paid to use, it's open source so to speak.

We believe that this framework is the best to work with and solutions can be chosen to work with based on a business' products and/or services and even on the individual level.

As we structure our site here on Your Business Our World, we'll be using Project Drawdown's industries and solutions as a foundation to work from and organize documents by.

Pachamama Alliance has graciously given us permission to put their PD reference sheets on our website, which can be found here:

https://www.yourbusinessourworld.com/learn/resources/documents/category/7-project-drawdown

Catalogue of various resources on food waste from usda and epa - accessed July 2019