A curated list of resources to help designers take their first step on your climate journey.
– by Marc O’Brien, co-founder of Climate Designers
⚡ climatedesigners.org Climate Designers provides the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers to be climate leaders everywhere they work.
⚡ Resource Library Whether you’re just beginning your climate journey or are an experienced industry professional, this resource has something for you.
⚡ A Field Guide to Climate Design Exploring the intersections and interconnections between the design world and the climate crisis with a mission to empower all designers to become "climate designers," even in the non-"green" jobs we find ourselves in every day.
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⚡ Climate Action Venn Diagram To find your meaningful and bespoke way to help address the climate crisis, draw your own Climate Action Venn Diagram
⚡ 22 Ways Creatives Can Support Climate Action Ideas for how your creative practice can contribute to positive climate action
⚡ Unlocking the Power of Transferable Skills Learn how to identify and effectively present transferable skills, especially when transitioning to the climate sector
⚡ Re-nourish Providing useful strategies, tools, and resources to practice sustainable design
⚡ drawdown.org The go-to resource to learn what it takes to reach “drawdown”—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline, thereby halting catastrophic climate change—as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible
⚡ Drawdown Explorer Building upon thousands of hours of analysis by scientific experts from around the world, the Drawdown Explorer provides detailed information on the many technologies and practices proven or proposed to effectively reduce greenhouse warming pollution in the atmosphere.
⚡ Discover A customizable guide to climate solutions resources
⚡ Drawdown Roadmap Providing a science-based allocation framework to help private investors, philanthropists, and other funders develop more effective climate strategies
⚡ Job Function Action Guides Product Design & Marketing
⚡ The Breakdown videos (season 1 & season 2) have great motion graphics and important narratives that will entertain and educate you
⚡ 11 Unsolved Problems in Climate Change
⚡ What the news won't tell you about climate change
⚡ Stories on Climate Solutions (The Opposite of Doomscrolling)
⚡ 2040, a great documentary to watch with kids or parents with kids