"Drawdown" edited by Paul Hawken

    There was a memorable commercial a few years ago that imagined the start of a work day in a gas-powered office -- a sleepy employee starts up the pull-cord coffee maker with a two-stroke engine, the copy machine chugs away spewing exhaust into the cubicles, employees try to discreetly cough into their sleeves. After glancing at the recently published "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming", you come to feel that our oil-reliant economies, transportation, manufacturing, and food production come out seeming just as illogical and outdated as this scenario of the copier with a fuel tank.

    Edited by Paul Hawken, (who co-authored the now classic "Natural Capitalism" along with Amory and L.H. Lovins) "Drawdown" follows the ideas of the earlier book – it recognizes that our economic well-being is tied to environmental sustainability and places a monetary value on the natural systems we draw from and live in.  "Drawdown" also furthers the thought, featuring some of the groundbreaking work being done today that puts these ideas into practice.

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