It’s a beautiful day in Project Drawdown’s neighborhood
Across the United States, individuals are working to reduce the threat of climate change. Drawdown Stories, a new initiative of Project Drawdown, aims to showcase their work and inspire others by passing the mic to the climate problem-solvers whose voices and stories often go unheard.
Launched earlier this week, Drawdown’s Neighborhood: Pittsburgh features 11 stories of how people are mobilizing to fuel a green future in a city with a deep history in coal and steel. In the spirit of Pittsburgh native Mister Rogers, the series showcases the diverse “neighborhood” of people working to help the world reach drawdown, the future point when greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere start to steadily decline. Climate solutions heroes who share their efforts to build a better community and a better world include Clara Kitongo, program coordinator at Tree Pittsburgh; Alexis Cromer, food operations director at 412 Food Rescue; and Veni Mittal, community service chair at the Green Building Alliance.
In addition to the featured videos, the Drawdown’s Neighborhood site offers discussion prompts to engage classrooms or communities in dialogue around each episode. And there are resource links to help individuals and others take action to address climate change in their own lives and neighborhoods.
Drawdown’s Neighborhood is hosted by Matt Scott, manager of storytelling and engagement at Project Drawdown. To view the videos, learn more, and stay up to date with future releases, please visit drawdown.org/neighborhood.
Join Drawdown Lift director Kristen Patterson Thursday, March 17, 12-1:30 pm ET in an online panel discussion titled Women, Dirt, and Data: Confront the Climate Crisis and Uproot Gender Inequality. Panelists will explore the role of rural and Indigenous women’s rights to the soil and forest they steward in alleviating the climate crisis and enhancing gender equity. Hosted by Landesa, the discussion will also feature Amy Coughenour, CEO of Cadasta and Cristiane Pankararu, co-founder of the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestrality (ANMIGA).
Drawdown’s Health and Education Solution: The Cascading Benefits of Access to Universal Education and Voluntary Family Planning—a new Drawdown Solutions policy brief—shows how universal access to quality education and voluntary family planning services are not only essential human rights and cornerstones of gender equality, but also can contribute to efforts to achieve drawdown. It makes the case that both should be integrated into climate deliberations, funding priorities, and country-level actions. Download the report and sign up to receive notification of future publications.
Perhaps no one cares more about getting this climate thing right than parents of young children, who clearly recognize every day the importance of shaping a better world for future generations. In the just-released podcast “Are Some Climate Solutions More Impactful Than Others?”, Project Drawdown director Jonathan Foley explains how Project Drawdown is addressing the climate crisis and explores what mothers and others can do to help.
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