Design Declares will re running its next open session on 24 November. The sessions “are designed to help you meet and learn from other designers about opportunities and challenges we all face when trying to reduce the environmental impact of our design businesses”. The Design Declares team will be updating on new chapters in Brazil and Ireland as well as hosting “breakout sessions to dig deeper into the challenges around collaborating with and learning from others, and how Design Declares could support support this moving forward”. Tickets available here

“The climate crisis is too big a challenge for any one person or design to address alone, and so we must work together — across the supply chain, professions, communities, nature and AI.” In the first of a series of articles on the lessons of its recent Design for Planet festival, Design Council’s Chief Design Officer Cat Drew looks at the essential role of collaboration in tackling the Climate Crisis. Read it here

“In the UK, an estimated 3bn disposable nappies are thrown away every year”. Writing for Disegno, Ann Morgan talks to Berlin-based designer Luisa Kahlfeldt of Sumo about her work creating a more sustainable, re-usable alternative. Read the interview here

Can biomimicry help us to design disaster-resilient buildings? ArchDaily’s Ankitha Gattupalli looks at the concept’s potential and concludes that “Embracing an evolutionary approach and accounting for past failures during design can better prepare infrastructure for unexpected disasters”. Read her article here

“Offsetting has been hailed as a fix for runaway emissions and climate change – but the market’s largest firm sold millions of credits for carbon reductions that weren’t real.” An extensive article in the New Yorker, The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle, investigates carbon offsetting pioneer South Pole and raises doubts about the claims of the entire offsetting industry. Read it here

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