What if everything turns out alright? The latest version of Positive News magazine brings “you the news from 2050 where everything has turned out just fine – from a stable climate to AI tamed and incredible species comebacks. Because imagining the future we want is vital if we’re to make it happen.” Features include Britain’s first heat pump village and slow, green travel with kids. Details here (thanks to What Design Can Do):

For Campaign magazine’s 20 July podcast, ISBA (the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers) Director General Phil Smith and Purpose Disruptors co-founder Jonathan Wise came together to debate whether 'Advertised Emissions' - a framework published by Purpose Disruptors as a way to encourage the advertising industry to take full responsibility for its climate impact – was a fair way to measure the industry’s actions. Purpose Disruptors define advertised emissions as: “The greenhouse gas emissions that result from the uplift in sales generated by advertising”, arguing that ad agencies must go beyond simply seeking to reduce the impact of their own operations. Listen here

A new system using QR codes on clothes labels could aid reselling and recycling. Digital product ID startup Eon, fashion brand Ahluwalia and Microsoft have collaborated on Symphony Unlocked which provides information about manufacturing processes, materials, sustainability certificates and supply chain. Design Week has the details here

With the Secretary of State rejecting Marks & Spencer’s proposal to knock down and replace its flagship building on London’s Oxford Street, Save Britain’s Heritage is celebrating what it has termed a “‘watershed moment’ that links the benefits of carbon reduction and heritage for the first time”. Critics argued that M&S’s plans would have released 40,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere immediately because of all the steel and concrete required for the new building. Retrofitting the existing building to contemporary standards would have a much smaller carbon cost, they argued. SAVE’s campaign against the plans put carbon firmly at the heart of the debate about knocking down buildings or re-using them, it says, which may have important implications for future decisions. More here

Can 3D-printed tiger teeth help save our rarest animals from extinction? The Guardian reports on a new startup that aims to reduce the number of animals being killed in India for body parts which have symbolic significance by providing synthetic alternatives. Full story here

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