Drawdown Intro

Rjukan Solarpunk Academy

DRAWDOWN is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming. Based on ten years of research, the book outlines one hundred solutions for drawing carbon out of the atmosphere back to safe levels within thirty years. Over the next months, Portland based poet Alicia Cohen will read DRAWDOWN. For each of the solutions she will write a poem, to be read out load on Radio Luftballett. Alicia Cohen is a poet based in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of three books of poetry: Coherer (Verge Books), Debts and Obligations (O Books), and Bear (Handwritten Press). Her work is included in anthologies including Make It True: Poetry from Cascadia, Salt: Poetry on the Oregon Coast and forthcoming Earth Bound: Compass Points Toward an Ecopoetics and Counter-Desecration Phrasebook: A Glossary for Writing Within the Anthropocene both from Wesleyan University Press. She had a doctorate from the poetics program at SUNY Buffalo and has written on the politics of visibility in contemporary poetry; presently she is working on questions of ecology, feminism and housework. Produced by Margrethe Kolstad Brekke/KORO Vågestykke 2017. Soundscapes and Jingles - based on Jon Gjerde`s recorded hangglider loops- by Hilde Annine Hasselberg and Thorolf Thuestad.