Campaign group Make My Money Matter, which “works to transform the financial system, so it puts people and planet on a par with profit”, has released a film to highlight high street banks’ “hidden relationship with the fossil fuel industry”. The film features Game of Thrones stars (and real-life couple) Rose Leslie and Kit Harrington. It was created by ad agency Mother and directed by Ben Strebel. “In the last 12 months, the Big 5 UK high street banks – Barclays, HSBC, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds - provided $37bn to fossil fuel companies, helping drive climate change,” Make My Money Matter says. “But you can change this. Tell your bank to break up with fossil fuel expansion.” Film below.

And talking of films, in order to persuade people to attend its Big One series of demonstrations this weekend, Extinction Rebellion and Odelay Films created Change Your Future. A couple explain why they didn’t take action while sitting in a living room which we learn is a warning from the future.

It’s Freezing in LA, the self-styled ‘independent magazine about climate change’ is releasing audio versions of some of its favourite past articles. They are available via podcast providers, including Apple

and Spotify

“If we are serious about achieving 2030 sustainability goals, the first thing we must do as an industry is to challenge and reinvent the entrenched opaque sales model that abdicates the supplier from responsibility for carbon costs and planetary impact at the point of sale,” Pearson Lloyd co-founder Tom Lloyd tells Design Week in an article looking at where investment to improve sustainability needs to be targeted in the design industry. Read the full piece here

Design Week also reports that, for this year’s Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal, Matter has designed a new plastic-free Royal British Legion poppy made entirely from paper comprised of 50% recycled coffee cup fibres. Full story here

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