Opening on January 20 at London’s Building Centre, new exhibition Homegrown: Building a Post-carbon Future “argues that a new approach to building is needed to answer the social and environmental crises we are facing – one that respects geography, ecology, people and place.  Created in collaboration with Material Cultures, this exhibition asks how we can critically reassess our relationship with the built environment by engaging with our landscape and its materials holistically.” More details here

France is continuing its pioneering legislation aimed at reducing waste with a new law whereby “any restaurant with more than 20 seats – including work canteens, bakery chains, fast-food and sushi outlets – will have to provide reusable, washable cups, plates, dishes and cutlery for customers eating in,” as The Guardian reports. Environmental groups claim that 55% of the 180,000 tonnes of waste generated by fast-food outlets in France each year comes from people eating in. More here

If you missed the 2022 Design for Planet Festival, the Design Council has been uploading videos of the talks on its YouTube channel. Currently available sessions include William McDonough’s keynote for future generations of designers and businesses. View here

Bloomberg Green’s Big Plastic series of articles sets out he challenges of reducing plastic waste globally. Setting the scene is Leslie Kaufman’s article The Climate Impact of our Insatiable Plastic Addiction which includes advice on limiting plastics climate impact from three experts. Read the piece and the rest of the series here

Recommended reading: launched in October 2022, as part of the Phenomenal World website, editorial series The Polycrisis “aims to untangle the Gordian Knot of security, climate, economic, and political dilemmas”. Its authors look at how our challenges are interlinked, taking a global perspective. Both the Polycrisis and Phenomenal World are backed by US non-partisan social sciences research organisation, the Jain Family Institute. Read it here

Here’s to a paradigm-shifting 2023!

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