Interview with Kathleen Draper, co-author of Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis
Kathleen Draper, co-author of Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis answers my interview questions and highlights some interesting books! Before jumping into the interview, please check out Kathleen's book Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis:
Review from Book Depository:
In order to rescue ourselves from climate catastrophe, we need to radically alter how humans live on Earth. We have to go from spending carbon to banking it. We have to put back the trees, wetlands, and corals. We have to regrow the soil and turn back the desert. We have to save whales, wombats, and wolves. We have to reverse the flow of greenhouse gases and send them in exactly the opposite direction: down, not up. We have to flip the carbon cycle and run it backwards. For such a revolutionary transformation we'll need civilization 2.0.
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Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis
A secret unlocked by the ancients of the Amazon for its ability to transform impoverished tropical soils into terra preta--fertile black earths--points the way. The indigenous custom of converting organic materials into long lasting carbon has enjoyed a reawakening in recent decades as the quest for more sustainable farming methods has grown. Yet the benefits of this carbonized material, now called biochar, extend far beyond the soil. Pyrolyzing carbon has the power to restore a natural balance by unmining the coal and undrilling the oil and gas. Employed to its full potential, it can run the carbon cycle in reverse and remake Earth as a garden planet.
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Q. Do you have a favourite smart thinking book (and why that book)?
Not really. I have a few authors that I gravitate to like the Heath brothers, Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell for Business, Jared Diamond for environment. I like authors that can distill science into understandable and entertaining stories that make me happy to learn about diverse subjects.
Switch
Review from Book Depository:
Change is hard. It doesn't have to be. We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback.
But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour.
Illustrating their ideas with scientific studies and remarkable real-life turnarounds - from the secrets of successful marriage counselling to the pile of gloves that transformed one company's finances - the brothers Heath prove that deceptively simple methods can yield truly extraordinary results.
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Q. What's the most recent smart thinking book you've read (and how would you rate it)?
I’m not sure if these are considered smart books, but I am reading various books by Chris Magwood. Currently the one I am reading is Sustainable Home Design which is very good. I’m building a sustainable home so anything in that genre is open game at the moment!
Essential Sustainable Home Design: A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process
Review From Book Depository:
Design your own sustainable home. Many people dream of building a beautiful, environmentally friendly home. But until now there has been no systematic guide to help potential builders work through the complete process of imagining, planning, designing, and building their ideal, sustainable home.
Essential Sustainable Home Design walks potential homebuilders through the process starting with key concepts, principles, and a project vision that will guide the house to completion.
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Book Depository €27.54 Waterstones £28.99(All links earn commission from purchases. Prices accurate at time of writing)
Q. Do you have a favourite childhood book?
Not from my childhood, but when raising my daughter my favorite was The Giving Tree and hers was The Magic School Bus series.
The Giving Tree
Review From Book Depository:
Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series.
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Q. Do you prefer reading on paper, Kindle or listening to an audiobook?
Audio mostly but paper when there is time. Never Kindle.
Q. Do you have a favourite bookshop (and why that shop)?
No. I live in the country, and we have fewer and fewer of them. But I do love my local library!
Many thanks to Kathleen for answering my questions and for her recommendations!
Please don't forget to check out her book Burn: Igniting a New Carbon Drawdown Economy to End the Climate Crisis.
Daryl
Image Copyrights: Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Burn), Cornerstone (Switch), New Society Publishers (Essential Sustainable Home Design), Penguin Books Ltd (The Giving Tree)
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