Video - The Story of Cap and Trade

An interesting insight into the problems that are facing our planet. While Copenhagen has already happened, it takes a closer glimpse at how the climate change issue came about and how the same mindsets can't be realistically used for its solution.

As a designs we need to keep these things in mind so that we can design sustainable products that havce a low impact on the environment throughout the product's life. There is an instance in this problem where the job as Industrial Designer seems paradoxial as the logical solution is to create less things when our job is to design new things and hence more things. But our own personal challenge as a designer is to use this as inspiration to design for the planet, to draw the line where we are at now and design products that performs a reliable use, to design a lasting product, design sustainably for the market and the natural environment.

Designers may not be politicans and change laws and the way that business works, but we can introduce better materials and processes that lessen the current reliance on material harvesting and energy use and to create objects that change the way we regard objects.