Slides and Resources from Session 2 (DEEPEN)

Overview

• Deepen understanding of Drawdown Solutions
• Share experience of researching Solutions to reversing global warming in small groups
• Engage with Four Levels of Actions and begin applying them to specific Solutions
• Select one Solution to research at Four Levels of Action for next week

Slides

• Session 2 – Deepen. These are the slides with notes that we went through during our second session. Videos are not embedded in order to work better on Zoom and to reduce the size of the presentation. At present, the slides are only available in Microsoft PowerPoint format.

AV During Presentation

• What is Possible Now? (11:37). From the Awakening the Dreamer workshop offered by The Pachamama Alliance, this video helps to see that a new future is possible and that a huge, unstoppable movement is already in action, committed to creating a new story for humanity.

[👆🏽 Click to watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUVOOWVHDMM)

👆🏽 Click to watch on YouTube

• Will Grant Four Levels of Action (7:35) ( transcript). A great way to think about your personal action portfolio! Will Grant is an activist, author, and long time professional facilitator who works with organizations to help accelerate positive momentum and change. You can find more about his work here. Also, we will soon be discussing Will Grant on the Movable Middle (on Pachamama Global Commons) in future sessions.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/319403161

• Going Forth (2:48) Katherine Wilkinson’s (VP of Communications and Engagement – Project Drawdown) closing thoughts from her Fall 2018 TED Talk for Women about Project Drawdown.

Handout(s)

• Solutions Research #2. For your solutions research, focus on one solution that really interests you and investigate how and where it is already in action in the world. Use this form as a guide. We recommend you start with the Drawdown website (www.drawdown.org), and then delve deeper by searching online to find information, people, organizations, and initiatives relevant to your solution. You may choose to work on this assignment with a partner or group.
• Example Solutions Research from Week 1:
  • Scott Henson on Plant Rich Diets and Health and Education
  • Larry Gales on Electric Cars and Net Zero Buildings
  • Jae Geller on Tiny Native Forest Gardening for Wildlife and Drawdown

For Fun and Going Deeper and Wider

• Stand by Me (5:27). Singers from around the world unite in showing us one way we can see ourselves as being connected as a human family.
• Talking About Climate Change. How do you talk to someone who doesn’t believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we’ve been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion — and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate.