About
Drawdown GA
The Mission
Drawdown Georgia provides a road map for Georgians - all of us - to build a new future based on our diversity, our ingenuity, and our shared humanity. Our solutions are tailor made for our state’s unique economic, social and natural resources, and we’re making it our mission to build equitable social capital so that we create a more just economy and a healthier population along the way. Can we come together from across multiple social, geographic, and political perspectives to get it right? We’re betting on us.
Why Georgia?
It’s possible you might think that we’re the most unlikely state to lead on bold climate action; a so-called “southern” that would not step up to the kind of change we imagine as Drawdown Georgia. We’re not inclined to paint our movement with any one color, and we believe it’s a place where people of all stripes will come together to give the best of what we have to give - intellectually and passionately. Let’s build on the many innovative things that are already happening here, let’s put an inclusive and diverse lens on the challenges. Let’s bring climate solutions home.
Who We Are
An epiphany of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, the Drawdown Georgia road map was created by a working group of academic partners. Now we need you. Community and business leaders, policy makers, advocates, innovators, entrepreneurs and municipal officials — you have the power to breathe life into each of our solutions.
Marilyn A. Brown, PhD, CEM, NAE, NAS
Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology
Blair Beasley
Consultant, Emory University
Kim Cobb, PhD
Director, Global Change Program
ADVANCE Professor, College of Science,
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael Oxman
Professor of the Practice, Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
Daniel Rochberg
Instructor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health,
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Marshall Shepherd, PhD
Director, UGA Atmospheric Sciences Program
Full Professor, Department of Geography
University of Georgia
Beril Toktay, PhD
Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
Marilyn A. Brown, PhD, CEM, NAE, NAS
Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology
Puneet Dwivedi, PhD
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Georgia
David M. Iwaniec, PhD
Urban Studies Institute, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Georgia State University
Sudhagar Mani, PhD
School of Chemical, Materials and Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering
Adjunct Professor of Food Science & Technology
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
University of Georgia
Daniel Matisoff, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jacqueline E. Mohan, M.E.M., PhD
University of Georgia
Michael Oxman
Professor of the Practice, Sustainable Business
Scheller College of Business
Georgia Institute of Technology
Richard A. Simmons, PhD, PE
Strategic Energy Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
Laura Taylor, PhD
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jasmine Crowe
Founder and CEO, GOODr
Roy Richards Jr.
Chairman of the Board, Southwire
Nathaniel Smith
Founder and Chief Equity Officer, Partnership for Southern Equity