Sandi Goldie & Jim Bronson are from Southern Oregon. They have been leading workshops introducing the Drawdown approach to climate change for some time. The approach alters the conversation by focusing on solutions instead of problems. Reducing emissions is an opportunity rather than a burden. It is a chance to build a strong, clean and modern city with a vibrant economy fit for the 21st century, supporting a better, healthier and more prosperous society for all. The road to drawdown begins locally.

Over the past five years, Project Drawdown has brought together a qualified and diverse group of researchers from around the world to map, measure and model the 100 most substantive solutions to address climate change. The result of the study, as reported in the book Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken, is a path forward that can roll back global warming within 30 years. According to Hawken, drawdown is that point in time when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begins to decline on a year-to-year basis.

The plan shows that humanity already has the means at hand. Nothing new needs to be invented, and the solutions come from a variety of sectors, including education, land use, food production, energy, transportation, building and city planning, and even the materials we use in our daily lives. In other words, there is a part to play for everybody.