View highlights from the 2019 Drawdown Learn Conference.
More than 16 hours of presentations, discussions, interviews, and other moving moments from the three-day event are now available free and on demand.
In order to reverse global warming, it’s time for everyone to get involved—to connect and partner, and to weave together disparate efforts into local, regional, and global solutions-oriented movements.
And what better way than by engaging with and supporting the young people who have the largest stake in our efforts?
Since the nonprofit, environmental organization Project Drawdown published Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming in 2017, schools, community groups, nonprofits, governments, businesses, and individuals have been galvanized by the solutions-based blueprint.
On Oct. 18-20, 2019, the Omega Center for Sustainable Living hosted a powerful array of presenters who illuminated what is possible in the effort to achieve Drawdown—the critical point when atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations peak and decrease each subsequent year—by or before 2050.
The 2019 Drawdown Learn on demand video is free and features more than 16 hours of powerful, illuminating, and inspiring conversations.
DRAWDOWN™ and DRAWDOWN LEARN™ are trademarks of Project Drawdown and are used with permission.
Meet the Teachers
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Katharine Wilkinson, PhD, serves as vice president of communication and engagement at Projec ...
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Rhiana Gunn-Wright serves as director of climate policy at the Roosevelt Institute. Befor ...
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Xiye Bastida is a teenage climate activist based in New York City and one of the lead organi ...
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Alexandria Villaseñor is a 14-year-old climate justice activist based in New York City and ...
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Andrew Revkin is the founding director of the new Initiative on Communication and Sustainabil ...
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Jonathan Foley, PhD, serves as executive director of Project Drawdown, a nonprofit organization&n ...
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Chad Frischmann is a co-author and the lead researcher of the New York Times best-seller ...
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Sherri Mitchell, JD, is an indigenous rights activist, spiritual teacher, and transformation ...
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Renee Lertzman, PhD, is an internationally renowned thought leader and adviser who work ...
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Henk Rogers is one of the world’s leading advocates and activists for reducing, and eventually ...
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After a dedicated career as a community activist, writer, and leader of non-profit organizations, ...
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New York State Senator Jen Metzger (42nd District) has been a leading voice in the state Legislat ...
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Donna U. Hope is the founder and President of UHope-Consulting, LLC, a New York-based consulting ...
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Felicia M. Davis coordinates sustainability for Clark Atlanta University and is a member of ...
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Sachem HawkStorm, hereditary sachem (chief) of the Schaghticoke People, is a fierce advocate ...
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Mark Lowery serves as assistant director of the New York State Department of Environmental Co ...
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Peter Buckland serves as the academic programs manager at Penn State’s Sustainability Insti ...
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Haley Stauffer is a graduate assistant at Penn State University in the Agricultural and Biologica ...
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Senorpe Asem-Hiablie, PhD, is an assistant research professor for the Institutes of Energy and En ...
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Carla Goldstein, JD, is president of Omega Institute and cofounder of the Omega Women's Leadershi ...
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Robert "Skip" Backus is the chief executive officer of Omega Institute, the United States’ prem ...
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Laura Weiland is the former director of the Omega Center for Sustainable Living (OCSL), and ...
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Saffran Mihnar is an advocate for climate solutions focused on communication, campaigning, and ne ...
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Frank Niepold is the climate education coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admini ...
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Niclas Svenningsen serves as manager for the Global Climate Action team in the United Nations Fra ...
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Mark S. McCaffery is founder and co-focal point of the Climate Education, Communication, and Outr ...
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Timothy Damon is founder and president of the Global Youth Development Institute (GYDI), an inter ...
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Isatis Cintron is a Puerto Rican PhD student at Rutgers University studying the chemistry, transp ...
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Abby Ruskey is a climate learning and action specialist from Olympia, Washington. Her work s ...
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Deb Morrison, PhD, is a collaborative design based educator-researcher engaged in disrupting raci ...
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Cinnamon Bear, of the Karuk Tribe, is an educator and traditional medicine herbalist who work ...
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Greg Schundler's career chronicles a journey from energy infrastructure finance in New York City, ...
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Roberto Múkaro Borrero has a distinguished and diverse background in program and policy deve ...
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Bahar Bouzarjomehri serves as the vice president of Olympia (Wa.) High School's Climate Action Cl ...
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Kaylee Shen is the president of the Olympia High School Climate Action Club, based in Olympia, Wa ...
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Heidi Kirk teaches Environmental Science at Olympia High School in Washington State and advises t ...
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Birch Kinsey is a Buffalo-based just transition advocate. Since she was 14 she has been working w ...
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Silas Swanson is an undergraduate student studying Earth and Environmental Engineering at Col ...
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Naomi Hollard is a Franco-Caribbean organizer for the Sunrise Movement who has been based at Phil ...
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Jaysa Mellers is a 14-year old activist who worked to shut down Connecticut's last coal-fired pow ...
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Isabel “Scout” Pronto Breslin, a high school student in Rhinebeck NY, co-created Hudson Valle ...
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Kellianne Ticcony studies marine biology at Stony Brook University. At Rhinebeck (NY) high school ...
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Laura Heady, MS, is the conservation and land use program coordinator at the New York State Depar ...
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Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, MS, is executive director of the Mid-Hudson Library System, a public ...
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Rebecca T. Miller is Editorial Director, Library Journal and School Library Journal< ...
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Matthew Bollerman is the director of the Hauppauge Public Library. Bollerman previously was direc ...
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Geoff Kirkpatrick is the Director of Bethlehem Public Library in Delmar, NY. He is a former ...
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Having spent extensive time in Africa developing and implementing entrepreneurship and permacultu ...
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Connor Stedman, M.S., is an ecological designer, farm planner, and climate educator based in ...
Schedule
To view the full 2019 Drawdown Learn Conference online viewing schedule download the PDF SCHEDULE HERE.
| FRIDAY | |
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| 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. |
Welcome & Conference Ceremonial Open with Schaghticoke First Nations, Penobscot, Tlingit and Taino Peoples Remarks by Omega CEO by Robert "Skip" Backus The Nexus of Climate, Gender Equality, and Women's Leadership with Katharine Wilkinson, Project Drawdown VP of Communications & Engagement Healing and Transformation: A Conversation: Katharine Wilkinson and Sherri Mitchell Panel: Women Advancing Climate Policy Solutions with Rhiana Gunn-Wright (Green New Deal policy lead), Jen Metzger (NY Senator), and Didi Barrett (NY Assemblywoman) moderated by Carla Goldstein (cofounder, Omega Women's Leadership Center) |
| SATURDAY | |
| 9:10 a.m.–9:50 a.m. |
From Anxiety to Action: Psychology for Climate Work with Renee Lertzman, PhD. |
| 9:55 a.m.–10:10 a.m. | Overview & Updates on the Drawdown Research, Chad Frischmann, Project Drawdown Vice President and Research Director |
| BREAK - Share your ideas & questions at #DrawdownLearn | |
| 10:30p.m.–11:20 a.m. | Unpacking the Green New Deal: The Critical Importance of Equity. Andrew Revkin leads an interview and Q&A with Rhiana Gunn-Wright (policy lead for the Green New Deal) |
| BREAK - Share your ideas & questions at #DrawdownLearn | |
| 11:35p.m.–12:25 p.m. | The Paris Agreement and You: The Critical Role of Education and Public Engagement. UNFCCC Education, Coordination, and Outreach Stakeholders (ECOS) coordination team members including National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s Frank Niepold and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat team members Adriana Valenzuela and Niclas Svenningsen join us from Bonn, Germany |
| 12:25p.m.–1:25 p.m. | LUNCH BREAK - See Media Zone Schedule (Facebook Live) for further programming. Share your ideas & questions at #DrawdownLearn |
| 1:45p.m.–2:35 p.m. | Cultivating Drawdown Scholars: An Overview of Penn State’s Inaugural Program with Peter Buckland, academic programs manager, Penn State Sustainability Institute and others |
| BREAK - Share your ideas & questions at #DrawdownLearn | |
| 3:05 p.m.– 3:55 p.m. | Climate Learning at Scale: Washington State’s Story Applied to Your Reality, including partnership and integration of indigenous knowledge into schools, with Deb Morrison (University of Washington, ECOS), Abby Ruskey (U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, ECOS), Cinnamon Bear Enos (Muckelshoot Tribe), Apolonio Hernandez (Braided Consulting & educational specialist for the Spokane Tribe) |
| BREAK - Share your ideas & questions at #DrawdownLearn | |
| 4:25 p.m.–5:15 p.m. | Crowd-Sourced Learning & Action: How a GIS-Powered Tool Can Activate Community Climate Solutions with Greg Schundler (City of Portland), Abby Ruskey, Heidi Kirk (high school teacher), students, and others |
| SUNDAY | |
| 11:00 a.m.- 11:15 a.m. |
Updates from the Drawdown Organization with Jonathan Foley, Project Drawdown Executive Director |
| 11:15 a.m.–11:30 a.m. |
From Local Action to a Global Movement: Our Work in Hawaii with Henk Rogers |
| 11:30 a.m. –12:30 a.m |
Youth Leadership Panel with Birch Kinsey, Silas Swanson, Naomi Hollard, Saffran Minhar, Destiny Hodges, KayLee Shen, Bahar Bouzarjomehri, Jaysa Mellers, Alexandria Villasenor, and Xiye Bastida with Sherri Mitchell. Conference close with Schaghicoke First Nations and other northeast Indigenous partners |
Tuition & Fees
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