“How do you teach a new generation of designers about sustainability in an ever-changing environment?” asks Design Week in article looking at how design education is responding to the challenges on the Climate Crisis. Read the piece here

Slow Factory is a US-based initiative offering free online education “focused on sustainability, equity, climate justice and human rights”, experiential workshops that “showcase landfills as sites of cultural importance, reframe waste as a design problem and provide tools to create circular systems in product design”, an international conference series and a partnership programme that pairs scientists and sustainability experts to drive innovation. More details here

The FT’s Climate Capital Live event is running from 8-10 March as “a platform for politicians, business leaders and financiers to evaluate the risks and opportunities they face in light of the climate crisis”. The event will be both in-person and online and speakers include Barbados PM Mia Mottley, Dennis Woodside, President of Impossible Foods, and an impressive line-up of CEOs, Chief Sustainability Officers and campaigners. Check out the programme here

World leaders, environment ministers and other representatives from 173 countries have agreed to develop a legally binding treaty on plastics. The treaty would cover the “full lifecycle” of plastics from production to disposal, to be negotiated over the next two years, reports The Guardian. Full story here

“I am a hypocrite. The business is not sustainable but we are trying to do good where we can and I don’t think that is a bad plan.” Also from The Guardian/Observer comes this refreshingly honest interview with Iceland CEO Richard Walker on the supermarket’s struggles to live up to its green promises. Of its much-publicised pledge to go plastic-free by 2023, Walker says, “We won’t get there. We are trying day and night as hard as we can but it is clear it’s going to be a very, very big ask. Lots of things happened: the pandemic, the channel mix to online, which [leads to] more plastic, and the other retailers were a lot slower in coming over to our way of thinking than I thought.” Read the full interview here

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