Can 2023 be the year there aren’t any more research papers of the basics as groundbreaking findings. We know good work, social infrastructure, good schools, access to green spaces, access to health, enough money to live, good quality housing is then baseline, it creates ..
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If you successfully achieve the corporation's goals but give the user a bad experience, then you have lost that user as a customer and as an advocate. Therefore, you have ALSO failed to achieve your corporation's goals. Failing the user means failing the company. 6
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Been finding user-interface.io newsletter really useful for UX/UI tips like this. Lots on form design too.
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Here is an example of how to make your text more scannable.
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As if the offset market wasn't complex enough, here's a crypto layer on top of it.
The result: more greenwashing (even if unintended).
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Am putting this on in June again. It's free, it's easy to apply, it's remote and I think it's a really nice way to learn and position your future creative work along #climatechange
Please share and if you're up for sponsoring I'm all ears.
#climatechange #creativity
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So grateful to have @LingQL @GooseGreenGP and @AnaBrdly give morning talks during our upcoming 2022 summer residency and delighted one of our keynotes will be a Q&A with @anabjain @jonardern about their work at @Superflux
#climatechange #residency
lowcarbondesigninstitute.org/residency-2022/
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Target hit and over-raising! by investing in you can help them create a new culture of borrowing in UK towns and cities, protecting the planet by reducing the amount of waste and emissions we create. Find out more: bit.ly/3iL962s Capital at risk
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Online deliveries are estimated to double by 2030. Logistical and low/no carbon solutions need to go hand in hand with communicating to people the environmental impact of different delivery options sifted.eu/articles/ecomm
'Demonstrating that decomposition can put fashion back into natural resource cycles will be a powerful proof point for fashion'
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🚨Pledged funding for arts activities is at stake in the Government's #SpendingReview on Weds. I've signed the petition urging to keep his promise and support every child's creativity at this crucial moment. #KeepYourPromise
On-demand grocery and delivery apps — is this a new 'servant economy'?
And should we, as conscious consumers (or conscious investors), play no part in it?
Read this from :
sifted.eu/articles/serva
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Final wrap -A brilliant month long residency #ClimateEmergency. Highly recommended. Great cohort 1. Thank you ☀️👏🏾👏🏾
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Indigenous land management styles that evolved over centuries are increasingly seen as synergistic with the state efforts to protect biodiversity and manage nature in a way that hedges against climate change. buff.ly/3phDBzn #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Sustainability
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How might we design products that accelerate an equitable transition to net-zero?
Deeper conversations on this topic to follow during the #locdi residency kicking off in June 👇
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Say hello to our 2021 virtual residents. Can't wait to see what they create. #climatechange #residency #arts
lowcarbondesigninstitute.org/2021-residents/
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Portugese village recovering from wildfire with the help of SDG-aligned crowdlending platform
JUST RELEASED: Our 2020 progress report! 📋
5 years on from the #ParisAgreement and launch of the SBTi it’s time to assess the impact of #ScienceBasedTargets.
Here’s a preview of our findings in this thread. ⬇️
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Eight supply chains account for more than 50% of global CO2 emissions.
The good news: fully decarbonising supply chains would not significantly increase end user cost
Promising developments for #EV
Asphalt causes air pollution, car tyres make microplastics. Big opportunities ahead for materials designers
'A global carbon market could reduce the total cost of fulfilling the Paris agreement by 79% compared with relying on local markets alone'
'...discrimination and racism continues to dictate who gets dumped on and who gets resources to mitigate floods, wildfires and other disasters' theguardian.com/environment/20 #environmentaljustice
"Maybe the coronavirus will be the thing that makes older generations let go of The War and start looking forward to the new type of threats we face too."
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They may have saved his life, but PM Boris Johnson will not reconsider the NHS surcharge that applies to foreign health workers.
Euronews.com
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Employers demands highlight the gender inequalities reinforced by corona
We’ve seen lots of images of empty shelves and that too is the situation in food banks. made a plea for donations after getting low on stock & volunteers. They've had a big response but the team running the centre is worried how long their resources will last.
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How can we use design to help us through a national crisis? Our CDO shares her views: medium.com/design-council #DesignThinking
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Great listen—'We have a tendency to point to another group of people as the source of our world's woes. But is the solution simply saying "they" are the problem? What happens when "they" scapegoat "us" in response?' theliturgists.com/podcast/2020/2
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Before, a man had to be home for a plumber to enter the house. Now women in Jordan are training themselves up—and tackling the country's water crisis
There are hidden costs to keeping social media sites 'clean'
Economic incentives don’t always lead to predictable behaviors, but in the case of Mexico’s sugary drink tax it sure has. This decade it will have thousands of lives and millions of dollars. Read more:
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'We realised many of the world's next 2bn people will be born in slums and this is a global problem... We are living in one urbanised planet and the two halves have to work together or we will get revolution.' monocle.com/radio/shows/th #architecture
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
— Alan Watts
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Selfridges switch to wood-based compostable food packaging for Christmas
Why is Central Europe turning towards populism? Ivan Krastev argues depopulation and identity loss are key factors project-syndicate.org/onpoint/the-me