Green Grads returns to the Surface Design Show with double the stand space and 14 graduates presenting work across materials, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and glazes.

Green Grads showcase projects that turn waste into resource. URGE shares books on creative wellbeing, purposeful practice, regenerative design, and the natural intelligence behind biomimicry.

In North Devon, Ecotribo turns retrieved ocean plastics into high-quality new products, and invites you to take part in every stage — from clean-ups to collaborations.

URGE joins the World Design Organization | Updates from founders Sophie Thomas, Michael Pawlyn, and Alexie Sommer | The next generation of sustainable designers at the Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair this week.

URGE’s Sophie Thomas invites you to take part in a pioneering year-long pilot programme developed with CIWM, Design Council and WRAP – offering behind-the-scenes access to waste facilities, expert-led workshops, and practical tools for a truly circular economy.

With highlights from bike tours to bench displays, hands-on workshops and the D! Climate Action Cards - LDF 2025 offers creativity, collaboration, and climate action.

Across the two days at the Barbican, URGE co-founders Alexie Sommer, Michael Pawlyn and Sophie Thomas will join an inspiring line-up of speakers. Here’s how you can join them.

The International Court of Justice has delivered its opinion that climate inaction can breach international law. But the most inspiring part? It all began with 27 law students from the Pacific Islands.

Interior Design MA students from the RCA bring radical spatial experiments to The Gallery, and 125 objects explore humanity’s relationship with water at the Wellcome Collection.

Design Declares invites contributions to its Climate Action Cards for the World Design Congress 2025, plus selected New Designers talks and tours this week.

As the Design Council launches its Skills for Planet Blueprint — a first step toward up-skilling one million designers in green skills — now is the time for designers to embed the mission. By Alexie Sommer & Bengt Cousins-Jenvey.

A selection of events from the London Festival of Architecture, Scotland’s Architecture Fringe, London Design Biennale, London Climate Action Week and elsewhere.

Five thought-provoking ways to engage with the latest thinking on regenerative design. You just might have to adapt it to your discipline.

URGE member Paul Zhu shares his lessons from starting the gift card Ecoswap for ethical and sustainable brands.

If you want to think about the Circular Economy as more than just recycling, there are six events in May and June you need to know about.

If you need inspiration or investment to do something new in 2025, one of these free events could be for you.

Bengt Cousins-Jenvey takes over from Ella Doran as editor of the URGE newsletter. He revisits past editions and asks for feedback from readers.

URGE co-founder Alexie Sommer explores Alki's new state-of-the-art workshop in Northern Pays Basque, showcasing its fusion of high design, sustainability, and artisanal craftsmanship.

As we step into the second week of a brand new year, we want to extend a warm and heartfelt welcome to our URGE community. We hope that you’ve had a restful break and a smooth transition into 2025. To warm up for the year ahead, we share some

URGE co-founder Sophie Thomas reflects on her chapter in the book MATERIALS: An Environmental Primer (published by RIBA), exploring the urgent need for material innovation and circular design.

URGE co-founder Federico Gaggio investigates the field, considering how media contribute to the crises we face, and what a healthy Media Ecology may look like.

Plus Design Declares and Disrupt Design are seeking expressions of interest for their workshop on Circular & EcoDesign and will you join SAS in their cold water campaign this October?

As September unfolds, the anticipation for the London Design Festival builds, bringing with it an exciting array of events across the city...

The United Nations Environmental Assembly will congregate for their final negotiations on the legally-binding plastics treaty this November, + this week the documentary Common Ground comes to the UK

The 2024 report released last week by the UK Climate Change Committee (CCC) warns the incoming government that the UK is currently not on track to hit our 2030 commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Plus, S.A.S have a message for the new government, and what if the climate transition and retrofit of our homes and streets were designed, owned and governed by the people who live there?

Read our open letter to Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the British Museum.

plus Think Global and Act Local for World Localization Day, and the Creative Mentor Network are seeking their next Chair of Trustees.

In episode #126, of The Great Simplification, Nate welcomes back Daniel Schmachtenberger to discuss a new paper, which he co-authored...

And Doughnut Economics Action Lab are looking for new case studies of inspiring initiatives that show what it means to aim to live within the Doughnut’s dimensions...

Reduce emissions, build resilience, repair ecosystems, remove greenhouse gases: these are the four Rs that can save us, says David King, chair of the global Climate Crisis Advisory Group

An afternoon of talks and workshops, exploring the role of design in the development of products and services, at Yorkton Workshops, London E2.

Plus Carbon Brief report on China's renewables and The Royal Designers for Industry are calling for applications for their Summer Residency 2024 'Mend Do and Make' in Dartington...

Plus a few of our picks from the Green Products Award 2024.

Grand Designs Live, opened this weekend with an enthusiastic cohort of 25 Green Grads showcasing their work. Jay Blades’ Craftworks, opens 15-17 May and What's on for Clerkenwell Design Week 2024.

Join URGE and Art Jameel in a demo session to explore the MENAT adaptation of the guide, and the Bio-Spaces: Regenerative, Resilient Futures exhibition has opened at the Roca London Gallery...

Also in the news this week; our seas and rivers are under threat; can you get involved to turn the tide on the sewage scandal of Britain and support Surfers Against Sewage this coming May?

Alongside, a landmark climate justice victory in the European Court of Human Rights and a new book for Interior Designers; 'Sustainable Interior Design' by Chloe Bullock published by RIBA.

A multi-disciplinary collective that helps organisations envision and enact radical responses to the climate emergency.

We look back on our work with the Design Museum calculating the environmental impact of their Waste Age exhibition and The World Around Young Climate Prize is open for nominations...

URGE co-founder John Grant outlines six ways to engage and motivate people to take substantive action.

And there is still time to visit the RCA Textile Circularity Regenerative Fashion Hub at Rich Mix and visit Design Centre London, for talks and conversations about circular methods and mindsets...

And upcoming events; the V&A Make Good Symposium 2024 and The World Around & Future Observatory's In Focus, continue the conversations on the impacts of climate change on design and architecture...

Clare Farrell and Brian Eno discuss their shared commitment to mobilising change in the face of climate emergency, under the banner of an emergent movement called HardArt. Follow along on @endless_vit...

Plus, Carbon Brief cover a new study that demonstrates a near-universal global public support for climate action, and Prototypes for Humanity have launched their call for entries for 2024...

an opinion piece published by the Centre for Liveable Cities, Singapore, where she lives.

Step back in time and experience Earth's history like never before, & join Interior Design Declares at Futurebuild this March, they'll be running design clinics sharing advice & knowledge at the show.

Meanwhile, the Surface Design Show, reveals the theme for 2024 - to design responsibly; emphasising zero-waste manufacturing and sustainable alternatives to protect the planet.