The Big One Is Electrifying Everything

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Likete: We need to stop combusting a bunch of coal and barfing carbon into the atmosphere. And let's start using all of this solar radiation that is bombarding the planet. Likete: All this technology exists. It doen't need to be invented. Its exists. If we get politicians and people who run big companies, they, if we get them to could just do it. Would be easy. Not easys may be the wrong word but it's duable. But it's not completely unfeasible.

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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ENGAGE by Brian Steely

CULTIVATE by Tula Lotay

EMPOWER by Khary Randolph

ELECTRIFY by Malleus

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