Foday David Kamara, aged 22 from Sierra Leone, has won the Young Climate Designer Prize in global non-profit The World Around’s first Young Climate Prize competition. Kamara’s project, EcoVironment, uses “an innovative indigenous plastic extrusion technology” to turn plastic waste into bricks and paving tiles. More on all the winners from Design Week here

In the latest episode of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Circular Economy Podcast, Notpla co-founder Pierre Paslier talks about how they are using seaweed as a viable alternative to plastic packaging and how that works in a circular economy. Listen here

Even though trade-fair Salone del Mobile has pledged to “focus on sustainability” with a new Sustainability Policy and Green Guidelines for exhibitors, “To really address climate change, we need a genuine moment of restart – one that asks difficult questions about the role of Salone instead of seeking ways to perpetuate business as usual. It is no longer enough to do less harm, we must actively find ways to regenerate natural systems and build a path towards global equity,” says Making Design Circular founder Katie Treggiden in Dezeen. “My greatest fear is that none of what's good about Milan can exist without the very problems it is trying to solve.” Read the full piece here

Dezeen also has a new podcast series, Climate Salon, which “will provide insight into how specialists across diverse disciplines can work in conjunction to mitigate the effects of climate change”. Its first episode, titled Radical Sustainable Living, features designer Tom Dixon, Siv Helene Stangeland, founder of Norwegian architecture firm Helen & Hard, and Sumele Adelana, architectural designer and product specialist at design software company SketchUp, the series sponsor. Listen here

“The ‘ninjas’ fighting climate change denial on Twitter”: the BBC reports on Team Ninja Trollhunters, a group of 25 people from around the world who came together to fight climate change denial on Twitter. “The "ninjas" began keeping tabs on prominent Twitter accounts which disputed the basic science of climate change. Whenever those users tweeted something which broke the platform's rules, they would report them.” More here (story via Carbon Brief )

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