Climate Design in 2025

January 12, 2025

Coming up in future newsletters this year I’ll be exploring the UX of Energy, that is, how we experience energy as a technology that serves us rather than a...

Environmental Economics, Part 3

November 24, 2024

In 2002, the Irish government introduced a 15 cent tax on plastic shopping bags. Previously supermarkets provided these bags free to customers. The goal of...

Environmental Economics, Part 2

November 17, 2024

In December, 1952 a sickening, deadly smog fell on London, England. Pollution from burning coal blanketed the city by an unsual weather pattern. Over the...

Environmental Economics, Part 1

November 10, 2024

Part 1 of a primer on Environmental Economics

Software for Wind Energy

October 7, 2024

A primer of the state of the industry for 2024

Event: Climate UX Case Studies

March 12, 2024

Free, March 13 at 12pm ET

How can we bridge design and climate science?

February 13, 2024

A free videoconference

How Electricity Is Made in Each Country

December 29, 2023

One of the most powerful ways that design contributes to climate work is making the invisible visible, as with data journalism. These series of 60 charts by...

When Should I Charge My Car?

October 22, 2023

Here’s a perfect place for design to solve a climate problem. Let’s say the area where you live uses a mix of renewable energy and fossil fuels for...

Is the solution simply solar + batteries?

October 15, 2023

tldr: Another answer to the questions of “what should I personally do/invest in?” and “in which industry should I work?” could simply be: solar. The IEA’s...

Climate Word to Know: Agrowth

October 8, 2023

Enso by Billy Gray Some argue we can’t fix the climate within the current capitalist economic system. The “degrowth” camp argues that focusing on gross...

Climate Consumer Segments

October 1, 2023

When thinking about how our design will be received, it’s helpful to have an understanding of how our audience interprets climate information. This allows us...

Climate Word to Know: Attribution

September 24, 2023

To stay climate literate in 2023 you should know the term attribution, as in attribution science. Attribution science determines how likely weather was...

Can Stories Bring Rivers Back to Life?

July 31, 2023

Alewife Brook and Mystic River, March 2017 I am a story skeptic. The abuse of storytelling in the business world combined with the falseness abound in social...

More Places to Design for the Climate

July 23, 2023

MCJ Collective created a wonderful resource called Guide to Software in Climate Tech to help developers think about where to apply their skills. They...

Are We Afraid of Nature?

July 15, 2023

Or, why save something we don't use?

The Climate Road Less Traveled

July 4, 2023

You've only got 80,000 hours of work; what will you do?

Climate Maps of the Future

June 8, 2023

This ain't your father's meteorology

Climate Career Advice for Designers

May 9, 2023

Find the intersection of climate needs and your expertise

Climate Solutions to Focus On

April 30, 2023

Ignore the tiny changes, we need to make big changes now

Hey ChatGPT, rank the climate solutions!

April 24, 2023

Question: In ranked order, what solutions should people work on to solve the climate emergency? Answer: The climate emergency is a complex and multifaceted...

What’s Actually Amazing About Strandberg’s RESQ:D Guitars

April 23, 2023

Hint: It's Not the Guitar

Welcome to Climate Design

April 21, 2023

An introduction to this newsletter / media empire in the making