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06 Apr 2021 How Oceanium are tackling the climate crisis with sustainable seaweed

Alex Harbinson is an October 2020 Associate who completed her first placement at Oceanium. My journey to On Purpose was a fairly lengthy one. I studied graphic design and worked both agency and client side before transitioning into marketing. I...

01 Apr 2021 What I learnt about climate change during my placement in the food industry

Roser Preuss (she/her) is an October 2020 Associate who did her first placement at Cotswold Fayre. There she worked on measuring and improving the environmental sustainability of its supply chain. My wakeup call to the finite nature of our...

17 Dec 2020 What are elected leaders doing to stay on track with the Paris Agreement?

No-one is acting fast enough to tackle the urgency of the climate crisis. The Paris Agreement gives state actors a universal mandate to reach this target: keeping temperature rising within 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial levels. It was...

09 Oct 2020 The Climate Emergency in the time of a pandemic: What you can do about it

The global pandemic has exposed major cracks in our institutional systems. It has been bigger and more disastrous than anyone could have comprehended earlier this year. With our minds focused on our immediate needs and the effect it has on our...

23 Jul 2020 An Introduction to Climate Conversations

We believe that the climate crisis requires an unprecedented response from all parts of humanity. At On Purpose, we are passionately committed to playing our part in that response. We started 2020 by declaring a climate emergency and our firm...