Doom & Bloom (Live @ SF Climate Week)

Doom & Bloom live at KALW!

Join Doom & Bloom for our second live recording at KALW in San Francisco!

Designers want to do climate-positive work, but they keep hitting roadblocks.We'll sit down with Renee Lertzman, climate psychologist and strategist, to discuss how designers can shift the culture within the design industry to prioritize climate-forward design decisions.Design + psychology + culture + climate. If you’re a designer, this live podcast recording is for you.

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PodcastDoom & Bloom is the podcast of Climate Designers, a global community providing the knowledge, skills, and professional network to support designers in becoming climate leaders everywhere they work.

HostMarc O’Brien is a designer, strategist and educator who has focused his work at the intersection of design, business, and climate action since 2016. Before focusing on climate, he worked in the social impact space on technology, public education, health, and economic development projects. In 2019, he co-founded Climate Designers, a global community of designers committed to climate action. Marc is a Senior Adjunct at California College of the Arts, leading courses in climate design and social innovation.GuestDr. Renée Lertzman is a founder, psychologist, researcher, and strategist who has spent three decades investigating one of the most pressing questions of our time: why do people struggle to act on what they care most deeply about—and what does it actually take to change that? Her answer challenges everything we think we know about motivation, resistance, and human behavior. The problem, she has found, is never lack of care. It's that care gets buried under anxiety, unprocessed grief, and the weight of impossible-feeling choices, and the strategies we use to overcome that tend to make it worse. Her work, spanning corporations, governments, nonprofits, and communities across the globe—is built on a simple but radical premise: the capacity for change already exists in people. Our job is to unlock it.

Renée has advised senior leaders and leadership teams at Google, IKEA, Johnson & Johnson, WWF, Live Nation, and the White House, and her TED Talk, How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Action, has been viewed over two million times. She is the author of Environmental Melancholia and the founder of the acclaimed Project InsideOut, seed funded by the 11th Hour Project and KR Foundation. Her forthcoming book, So You Want to Change the World? Creating the Future You Want from the Inside Out (Viking 2027), is the culmination of thirty years of practice and research at the intersection of psychology and planetary change.

Learn more at reneelertzman.com.

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