Gisele Bündchen Joins Paul Hawken In Promoting 'Drawdown' Book, 100 Solutions To Global Warning

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Supermodel Gisele Bündchen covers the June/July issue of Vogue Paris, but talking fashion is not on her mind just now. Gisele is using her post-runway-retirement time to increase her commitment to Planet Earth, a long-standing passion for the world's top model.

Bündchen is using her global platform as an environmental advocate, articulate voice on deforestation in the Amazon, and role as a United Nations goodwill ambassador to promote environmentalist Paul Hawken's latest book, 'Drawdown.'

The 'Drawndown' website says that Hawken's new book:

". . . maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. The goal of the research that informs 'Drawdown' is to determine if we can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years. All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world."

The subtitle of "Drawdown—The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming'—may sound brash. We chose that description because no detailed plan to reverse warming has been proposed. There have been agreements and proposals on how to slow, cap, and arrest emissions, and there are international commitments to prevent global temperature increases from exceeding two degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. One hundred and ninety-five nations have made extraordinary progress in coming together to acknowledge that we have a momentous civilizational crisis on our earthly doorstep and have created national plans of action. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has accomplished the most significant scientific study in the history of humankind, and continues to refine the science, expand the research, and extend our grasp of one of the most complex systems imaginable—climate. However, there is as yet no roadmap that goes beyond slowing or stopping emissions.

To be clear, our organization did not create or devise a plan. We do not have that capability or self-appointed mandate. In conducting our research, we found a plan, a blueprint that already exists in the world in the form of humanity’s collective wisdom, made manifest in applied, hands-on practices and technologies. Individuals, communities, farmers, cities, companies, and governments have shown that they care about this planet, its people, and its places. Engaged citizens world over are doing something extraordinary. This is their story.

Appearing with Hawkens, Bündchen also puts the problem in very human terms, while honoring Gaia, which she always does. 

"I believe we are spiritual beings having a human experience. And I believe that Planet Earth is, like, you know, it's a spaceship. Let's put it that way," Bündchen told "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose. "In this spaceship, life is very fragile, in a way."

"This planet – I mean, look at it. Fruits grow on trees. You know, the Earth provide us food, rivers, all the animals, all the species. I mean, we are blessed! We are living in heaven here. I mean, come on," Bündchen added. 

Paul Hawken recently made an extended presentation on 'Drawdown' in Seattle. We share the entire video presentation.