Spesh Ep: Drawdown Design Project with C. Andrew Hall

Image description: Andy Hall has a salt & pepper beard and wears a black Western-style button-up shirt with aviator glasses tucked onto the collar and stands next to Alie, smiling and wearing a mustard yellow dress. They are standing at an outdoor restaurant.

Image description: Andy Hall has a salt & pepper beard and wears a black Western-style button-up shirt with aviator glasses tucked onto the collar and stands next to Alie, smiling and wearing a mustard yellow dress. They are standing at an outdoor restaurant.

Art meets science! Problems meet solutions! Climate change meets … hope? In this atypical episode, things get casual as hell as Alie sits down to talk about the Drawdown Design Project: an illustration non-profit started by filmmaker, Emmy-nominated television editor and longtime friend Andy Hall. When he’s not having to edit Alie on Innovation Nation, Andy is the founder and creative director of the Drawdown Design Project, which commissioned some of the world’s most sought-after artists to illustrate climate solutions outlined by Drawdown.org. What resulted was the just-released limited-edition 200 print run of ENGAGE, EMPOWER, CULTIVATE and ELECTRIFY. Andy walks me through the passion, the production and the process of raising money for rainforests while making something gorgeous and uplifting. Also: I used to serve snacks on film sets. 

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Alie Ward