Sophie Thomas is one half of the duo behind London-based sustainable design agency thomas.matthews. For this week’s Cool People, we went down to the studio to talk environmentally-friendly communications and ten ways design can fight climate change.

In an attempt to minimise the amount of waste we produce and encourage recycling, the UK government introduced fortnightly refuse collections in many parts of the country earlier this year. But what’s one home’s weekly bin-full compared to the industrial-size skips that supermarkets dispose of every single day? Global Cool contributor Liam Tullberg met up with an organisation that offers a simple solution.

As expectations mount ahead of next week’s UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Global Cool’s newest contributor Andrew Laughlin looks at the build up.