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Academics at UGA have joined the fight against climate change and are finding ways to solve climate problems in their own backyard.
Drawdown Georgia is an organization dedicated to combating climate change and significantly reducing Georgiaâs carbon footprint by the year 2030 based on solutions tailored to Georgiaâs unique social, economic and natural resources.
Founded by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation in 2019, Drawdown Georgia combines the efforts of academics statewide, including UGAâs Marshall Shepherd, Jacqueline Mohan, Puneet Dwivedi, Sudhagar Mani and Jeff Mullin.
Between 2019 and the end of 2020, Drawdown Georgia operated phase one of its mission, in which experts from across the state came together to research and analyze the best possible solutions to reduce carbon emissions for the specific needs of the state. Phase two began Jan. 1, 2021 and looks to implement these solutions and evaluate their effectiveness.
PORTSMOUTH With Earth Day fast approaching, Seacoast eateries are joining a local nonprofit to encourage plant-based foods and reducing environmental impact.
Spearhead by Seacoast Area Renewable Energy Initiative (SEAREI), local favorites are participating in “Planted for the Planet from Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, April 25.
The 22 participating restaurants will offer a variety of plant-rich menu items dubbed “Earth Day Entrées for patrons to enjoy throughout the weekend.
Black Trumpet chef and owner Evan Mallett said his restaurant will take part in the “restaurant week type format” to highlight why consuming less meat and conducting more eco-friendly food practices are necessary.
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By Richard Schiffman
Bill Gates is a man with a big agenda. He and his wife run the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation. It aims to eliminate diseases, boost food production, and end extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. As Gates writes in his latest book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” he gradually came to the realization that climate change poses a major threat to those goals.
It won’t be enough to just reduce emissions of CO2, as governments pledged to do in the 2016 Paris Climate Agreement, Gates insists. The world’s wealthiest countries need to get all the way to zero carbon by the year 2050. That means that, in addition to radically slashing the production of greenhouse gases, we’ll have to start removing them from the atmosphere.