Drawdown #1: Refrigerant Management

Every Friday Portland-based poet Alicia Cohen will post an audio reading of a new poem from her series Reading Drawdown here on Radio Luftballett ​ What is Reading Drawdown? A collection of 100 hundred poems, one poem for each solution proposed in Drawdown. The first poems of this series will be published serially at Luftballet.com on Fridays through June 2018. ​ What is Drawdown? A comprehensive plan to reverse global warming. www.drawdown.org ​The result of ten years of work by researchers who have identified and modeled the 100 most substantive, existing solutions to address climate change. It is a path forward that can roll back global warming within thirty years. ​Why Reading Drawdown? An Introduction by Alicia Cohen: When I first heard of Project Drawdown from my friend and collaborator, the artist Margrethe Kolstad Brekke in Norway, I was deep in a depression due to the wildfire season in the American West where I was born and where I live. This summer, 2017, was unlike anything I have ever known. For three years running our summer skies periodically turn dark grey and the sun blood red as we are warned by the authorities to stay inside and avoid breathing deeply. I have never seen such skies before and this summer was the worst—it happened over and over and even into the fall. Global warming modeling shows the West's forests only burning with more frequency through this century. ​