The Design Council’s Design for Planet Festival returns on November 8 and 9 at Northumbria University. Following last year’s launch in Dundee, this year’s event will be hosted by biologist Patrick Aryee. Speakers include London based Youth Climate Justice Activist Daze Aghaji, designer Phoebe English, whose studio focuses on circular design in fashion, Brands with Purpose’s Sara Vaughan, plus URGE’s Michael Pawlyn and his co-author Sarah Ichioka, who discuss biomimicry and their book Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency. Tickets are free. Details here

Design Declares launched last week and already the number of signatories is growing fast. At the time of writing, almost 70 individuals, studios and design groups had signed up and declared a climate emergency via the Design Declares website. Signatories now include graphic design studio Apfel, leading design academic Lawrence Zeegen, the Kenwood Design Office Team and the Product Design Department at the University of Sussex. Add your voice here

The Aldersgate Group, which “champions a prosperous, net zero emissions, environmentally sustainable economy”, has launched a manifesto for the new Prime Minister and her government. The green line: a route out of crisis and towards prosperity will “outline how ambitious climate and environmental policies can help solve the energy and cost of living crises, and drive much needed investment and job creation across a range of economic sectors and regions”. More here

A little late to this but we are in the last days of Secondhand September - Oxfam’s challenge to people to buy nothing but secondhand clothing for 30 days. More here

“Public companies, even those with good intentions, cannot be purpose-driven!” The brilliant Nick Asbury, a long-time critic and sceptic of Purpose, reflects on Patagonia’s ownership change and what it means for the Purpose movement in marketing and business. “The Patagonia story has been reported as a new model for businesses to follow, but in truth it’s a story about the failure to find any model that can exist beyond the tight control of a family-held trust.” Read in full here

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