We Are Climate Designers
Are you a designer (in any industry) taking on climate action? You are not alone. We'll introduce you to other climate designers doing amazing work that confronts our changing climate. You'll hear firsthand how designers consider sustainability, climate science, product life cycles, regenerative design, and environmentally friendly options in their work. You can learn more and join us at climatedesigners.org Brought to you by Sarah Harrison and Marc O’Brien of The Determined.
Episodes
In this episode, Sarah interviews Project Drawdown’s Jamie Alexander and Aiyana Bodi, digging into topics like…
how designers (and anyone) can integrate their passion for climate action into their job roles wherever they currently work, and…
pushing the companies they work for towards a higher standard of corp...
In this episode, Sarah Harrison sits down with climate communications consultant and climate activist Cass Hebron, founder and editor of The Green Fix newsletter.
Listen in to learn more about her work as a communications consultant for environmental organizations, and why it’s so important to talk about our climate crisis with the people in your lif...
In this episode, Sarah Harrison sits down with Filmmaker Sanjana Sekhar to discuss a short documentary called Expedition Reclamation, which Sanjana was one of three co-directors for as part of the Brave Space Project.
Listen in to learn how the film seeks to reclaim the outdoors for underrepresented voices, and how this project relates to creative st...
In this episode, Marc and Sarah discuss the latest Conference of the Parties and whether the outcomes from that meeting matched our expectations, and, real talk, what we expect to happen next. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, on the 10th day of COP26.
You can watch this episode on our YouTube channel, or join us live when we...
The media won’t speak truth to power. They can’t. The power in question is what keeps the media going.
Join us as we break this down and discuss why the mass media coverage of climate change is not the whole truth, what’s missing, and why they keep it from us.
We also talk about the result on society of this s...
Join Marc & Sarah in the first of a series inspired by War on Women’s song lyrics “Let’s raise some wonderful, beautiful hell.”
The episodes in this series will be about an hour long, with informal, candid conversation between Marc & Sarah about topics we don’t hear many people talking about but that really need to be said.
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Designers may have incredibly innovative eco-friendly ideas, but how do we actually get these ideas into production? How do you convince a client or an employer to choose a more sustainable option that might cost more? Why do design-led companies boost stock performance by 211% over standard S&P 500 companies?
In this episode, Marc and Sarah sit down and have a delightful chat with illustrator and outdoor enthusiast Kika MacFarlane.
Kika makes lovely illustrations, often about oceans, forests, and mountains. She recently had her eyes opened to the potential of art as activism when one of her illustrations went viral on social media.
Bartlett Brands is a small studio in San Francisco who creates gorgeous brands, specializing in eco-friendly packaging design for indie cosmetics and personal care products. We sat down to chat with founder Rebecca Bartlett and Art Director Lauren Golik about their incredibly innovative strategies to make the most environmentally sustainable decisions for products and packaging without sacrificing aesthetics and that “w...
Jonny Black is a green graphic designer, one of the founders of Cast Iron Design, who specializes in branding, web design, packaging, and environmentally responsible print production.
In this interview we chat about how — and why — Jonny merged his passion for environmentalism with his expertise in graphic design, and what some of the unexpected perks and benefits have been since the two converged.
In this episode, recorded May 12, we sit down with the designers who collaborated on an updated version of the FirstThings First Manifesto, originally written by/for Graphic Designers in 1964.
While keeping the humor and vision of the original manifesto, First Things First 2020 was written with a sense of urgency due to our climate emergency, along with the expectation that this decade...
Michael Leggett was a software designer working for big tech companies like Google and Facebook until the 2016 election spurred him to find a new career tackling the climate crisis. He joined forces with Seattle startup Nori to help build an online marketplace where customers pay farmers to draw CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the soil. In this episode we chat about what it was like to leave his steady tech job...
We’re excited to introduce you to Eric Benson, one of our advisors and collaborators at ClimateDesigners.org.
Eric is the Chair of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as author of the book, Design to Re-Nourish, a manual of sustainability through systems-thinking for the graphic designer.
In this 17 minute conversation, we ask Eric to share some of his experien...
Warning: This Episode Might Get You Fired.
Inspired by books like Ruined by Design by Mike Monteiro and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi by Mark Boyle, we ask: “What can (or maybe should) designers do, in their current jobs, to take a stand and have an impact on climate change?”
We spend our 37 minutes discussing real practical ideas for designers to grow i...
For this episode of We Are Climate Designers, Marc and Sarah interviewed Evan Hynes of Climate.careers. Evan created Climate.careers to “Mobilize the world’s talent to solve the climate crisis.” Climate.careers is the place to go if you want to do impactful work within climate, or if you want to hire someone looking to dedicate their career to climate impact. We talk about finding purpose in your work, happiness, the so...
New Podcast! For Climate Designers, by Climate Designers. Listen to this intro to get a sense of what this podcast will be all about.
Available in your favorite podcast player — please subscribe, and share with another Climate Designer you know to help us spread the word.
http://climatedesigners.org/podcast/000
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