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A creative industries collective dedicated to system change

Newsletter  | Mar 18, 2026
ICYMI: the must-read intelligence report released under FOI
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ICYMI: the must-read intelligence report released under FOI
Newsletter  | Mar 03, 2026
Design has a digital carbon footprint that all creatives can address
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Design has a digital carbon footprint that all creatives can address
Newsletter  | Feb 13, 2026
CIWM partners with URGE to deliver design skills pilot programme
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CIWM partners with URGE to deliver design skills pilot programme
Newsletter  | Feb 03, 2026
Green Grads at the Surface Design Show 26 this week
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Green Grads at the Surface Design Show 26 this week
Newsletter  | Jan 20, 2026
No climate resolutions yet? Start this year differently
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No climate resolutions yet? Start this year differently
Training  | Jan 05, 2026
Design Skills for Embedding Circularity
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Design Skills for Embedding Circularity

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Newsletter  | Mar 18, 2026
ICYMI: the must-read intelligence report released under FOI

A landmark intelligence report linking ecosystem collapse to UK food and national security appeared this year after a Freedom of Information battle. Most people missed it, but creatives need to read it and act on it.

ICYMI: the must-read intelligence report released under FOI
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A landmark intelligence report linking ecosystem collapse to UK food and national security appeared this year after a Freedom of Information battle. Most people missed it, but creatives need to read it and act on it.

Newsletter  | Feb 13, 2026
CIWM partners with URGE to deliver design skills pilot programme

Design Skills for Embedding Circularity has officially been announced: designers learn from waste-site visits and expert sessions, then tackle end-of-life in a June sprint. URGE needs you.

CIWM partners with URGE to deliver design skills pilot programme
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Design Skills for Embedding Circularity has officially been announced: designers learn from waste-site visits and expert sessions, then tackle end-of-life in a June sprint. URGE needs you.

Work  | Mar 01, 2025
Green Skills Training Program for Casson Mann

A tailored nine-month Green Skills training programme for Casson Mann with a focus on Reducing Emissions, Evaluating Green Impact and Influencing Green Behaviour.

Green Skills Training Program for Casson Mann
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A tailored nine-month Green Skills training programme for Casson Mann with a focus on Reducing Emissions, Evaluating Green Impact and Influencing Green Behaviour.

Training  | Jan 01, 2025
Sustainability Capacity Training for Design Teams

URGE builds green-skills training for design teams: carbon + materials literacy, circular design, supply chains and regenerative thinking, built into the creative process. Start with a quick diagnostic, then mix and match workshop modules. Want to design your programme? Get in touch.

Sustainability Capacity Training for Design Teams
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URGE builds green-skills training for design teams: carbon + materials literacy, circular design, supply chains and regenerative thinking, built into the creative process. Start with a quick diagnostic, then mix and match workshop modules. Want to design your programme? Get in touch.

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Newsletter  | Oct 25, 2021
Tracking the impact of Waste Age
Tracking the impact of Waste Age

Last week, the Design Museum's landmark Waste Age exhibition launched: URGE is helping to create a thorough environmental audit of the show to assess its impact

Newsletter  | Oct 18, 2021
Why your Climate Shadow may be more important than your Carbon Footprint
Why your Climate Shadow may be more important than your Carbon Footprint

Plus Earthshot prize winners, and 'poo tomatoes' spotted in Kent

Newsletter  | Oct 11, 2021
Tackling the creative industry's class problem
Tackling the creative industry's class problem

The UK's Social Mobility Commission has created a new toolkit to address the lack of people from working class backgrounds across the industry

Newsletter  | Oct 04, 2021
Tools to reduce your carbon footprint
Tools to reduce your carbon footprint

The ad industry launches Carbon Calculator: can design do the same?

Newsletter  | Sep 27, 2021
Design for Planet and URGE
Design for Planet and URGE

URGE members speaking at Design Council's major new conference

Newsletter  | Sep 21, 2021
Picturing climate change
Picturing climate change

EEA's Climate Change PIX winners plus URGE's Fiona Glen at Write the Earth event and no more plastic for Morrisons' bananas

Newsletter  | Sep 13, 2021
ClubZero's reusable design system
ClubZero's reusable design system

Plus Global Design Forum picks and why BlackRock's former head of sustainable investing thinks his former occupation is a dangerous placebo

Newsletter  | Sep 06, 2021
Planted show to reconnect us with nature
Planted show to reconnect us with nature

Plus, new European Green Capital to be announced, a roadmap for sustainable live music and GSK claim to have launched first carbon neutral toothbrush

Newsletter  | Aug 30, 2021
Penguin Books' Green Ideas series
Penguin Books' Green Ideas series

Plus, Goodfest wants to co-create a Sustainable Creative Manifesto

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