#3 - How Can We Save the Planet? with Martha Schwartz
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Today's Guest is Martha Schwartz. She is a landscape architect, urbanist, artist, and climate activist. She is also the Senior Partner at Martha Schwartz Partners and a tenured Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD.) She talks to us about Geoengineering and "How Can We Save The Planet?" Martha shared with Abhay visuals for the discussion. You can watch the video that includes all the visuals HERE Martha's Top 10 Reads (in order) 1. The Water Will Come   Jeff Goodell 2. The Sixth Extinction    Elizabeth Kolbert 3. Six Degrees:  Our Future on a Hotter Planet Mark Lynas    4. The Planet Remade    Oliver Morton 5. Climate Wars     Gwynne Dyer 6. A Case for Climate Engineering David Keith 7. Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet Gernot Wagner, Martin   Weitzman 8. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration, Holly Jean Buck 9. The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway can download PDF 10.  Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Edited by Paul Hawken (good handbook for on what we CAN do about it) Supplemental Resources Losing Earth, NYT The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming  David Wallace Royal Society Assessment on Geoengineering The Visual Guide to the Findings of the IPCC Michael E. Mann, Lee R. Kump IPCC 2014 (International Panel on Climate Change 20140 IPCC 2018 (International Panel on Climate Change 20180 USGCRP National Climate Assessment (more US focussed) 🔴 Subscribe to watch the live recordings on our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/35fnkCL ✅ For show inquiries contact us at [email protected] ✅ Let's connect: Twitter: https://twitter.com/AWALight Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/contextualizing.light/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/awalightingdesigners LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/awa-lighting-designers Other Relevant Links: Host Website: https://awalightingdesigners.com/ Host Book website: https://www.contextualizinglight.com/ ---
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