Week 4

Hawken, Paul. Drawdown: the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Roll Back Global Warming. Penguin Books, 2018.

This book, spearheaded by Paul Hawken, is a comprehensive study on sustainable technologies and practices and their potential impact on the world around us. Many scientists contributed to the work, and includes sustainable sources from across the board, including the environmental benefits of having higher educated women, globally. In my field of sustainable technology, direct and indirect consequences can make gathering information about the benefits of a certain technology tough, as the information tends to be very vague. This book, “Drawdown”, is important to me because it gives an in depth look at so many scenarios and possibilities to reduce green house gas emissions, which is a large part of my major. The creation of comprehensive works such as this one allow people new to a subject to be able to look at the information holistically.