Doing some writing today. For a proposal so it won't see light of day but thought I'd share snippets of it.

We’ve found design solutions to tackle the climate emergency typically fall into the recycle, re-use and offset category.

From turning plastic into trainers that people can continue to consume to companies planting trees to offset their huge carbon footprint in server farms, these intentions are good, but there is a larger design emergency.

Our everyday, well intentioned design practice to tackle the climate emergency is a short term bandaid.

We believe there is an urgent two part education needed;

1. Designers recognising the role they will need to play in radical systems change to tackle the climate emergency

2. Wider public education around how everything around us is designed consciously and unconsciously and its contribution to the climate emergency (e.g cars and urban mobility).

Regularly, the design briefs we receive are shaped by the existing economic operating systems - sell more, control more, build more.

Whilst we produce good work day to day and make things better for people to use we find ourselves straddling the challenge of designing for a world of today that’s flanked by consumerism versus a new paradigm of tomorrow that puts the earth first.

Big up the http://www.designandclimate.org  group - feeling inspired by your work and making some plans.