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. Other writers include

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, and the foreword was written by (

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. The book describes solutions arranged in order by broad categories: energy, food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, materials, and "coming attractions". The book provides a list of 100 potential solutions and ranks them by the potential amount of greenhouse gases each could cut, with cost estimates and short descriptions. ''

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'' notes that the author has had influence in corporate sustainability efforts and that companies such as

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have backed the project. It was intended that the book be supplemented with an online database, ''

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'', which was to compile the numerous types of solutions.

Reception

''Drawdown'' has been a ''New York Times'' bestseller and has received favorable reviews. For example, ''

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'' called the book "an optimistic program for getting out of our current mess". An April 2017 video on

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described the book as "a collection of policies, plans, and active programs to reduce carbon emissions outside of the purview of the federal government". In the video, Mr. Hawken stated, "the reason we can say 'the most comprehensive plan ever proposed' is that no one's ever proposed a plan... which is sort of astonishing when you think about it." According to an article in Vox, "until 2017, there was no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have".

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* * , Project Drawdown headquartered in San Francisco, USA * {{url, https://www.drawdowneurope.org the Drawdown Europe Research Association project headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2017 non-fiction books Climate change mitigation Sustainable development Climate change books 2017 in the environment Penguin Books books

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