Posted by Dean Malmgren Over the past year, IDEO has been working toward meeting a series of wide-ranging climate commitments. In the first phase of our work, we tackled what some might consider “low hanging fruit” in the work toward Net Zero: we estimated our carbon footprint, offset our greenhouse…

Words by Dean Malmgren, Michelle Santana, Nazlican Goksu, Tom Cohlmia & Uvini Lokuge In 2019, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) released an updated climate report reiterating how critical the 2020s will be in curbing wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts. The report outlined that over the next decade, we need to…

Words by Anna Várnai, Dean Malmgren, Jenny Gottstein & Mike Sakowski “Genuine question: are offsets a useful thing?” That was the question that we woke up to from our colleague, EJ Baker, on IDEO’s #climate Slack channel in mid-September. For months, Anna Varnai, Jenny Gottstein, Mike Sakowski, and I had…

Article by Dean Malmgren For IDEO to commit to Net Zero or to prioritize emissions reductions initiatives, we first needed to understand the magnitude of our global carbon footprint and which factors were the greatest contributors. We quickly realized the complexity of the challenge. There are hundreds of people across…

Author Iain Roberts Those were the words that Tim Brown, co-founder and co-CEO of Allbirds, uttered to me just before the pandemic began. We were at a conference that IDEO was hosting in the Bay Area. …

by Nazlican Goksu, Sue-Jean Sung, Jason Baker, Peter Jackson, and Kyle Cheon This story is part of a series of design fiction that explores what a new era of public service could look like in 2025, five years after COVID-19. Learn more here. Taniel gets a laugh whenever they tell…

by Nazlican Goksu, Sue-Jean Sung, Jason Baker, Peter Jackson, and Kyle Cheon This story is part of a series of design fiction that explores what a new era of public service could look like in 2025, five years after COVID-19. Learn more here. “It’s complicated.” That’s Sander’s stock answer whenever…

by Nazlican Goksu, Sue-Jean Sung, Jason Baker, Peter Jackson, and Kyle Cheon This story is part of a series of design fiction that explores what a new era of public service could look like in 2025, five years after COVID-19. Learn more here. Sue is an Enabler. No, that doesn’t…

by Nazlican Goksu, Sue-Jean Sung, Jason Baker, Peter Jackson, and Kyle Cheon This story is part of a series of design fiction that explores what a new era of public service could look like in 2025, five years after COVID-19. Learn more here. Lyn Li loves her job. She started…