IIDA Northern California
Climate Action Position Statement

IIDA Northern California recognizes that the effects of climate change severely impact the livelihood of present and future generations. We accept that the Interior Design Profession needs to be committed and accountable to creating positive change through our work. As advocates for healthy, sustainable, and equitable spaces, we challenge interior design professionals and industry partners to take an integral role in tackling climate change and restoring our communities and planet.

IIDA Northern California will inspire, educate, lead, and foster our design community to – be socially and environmentally accountable.

Here’s a first step you can take:
Sign the Interior Design Pledge for Positive Impact

Why is Climate Action Important?

The climate crisis is no longer an abstract phenomenon. With extreme weather events and a pandemic raging around the world in 2021, the crisis is hitting closer home than ever before.

What’s more, environmental degradation is hitting vulnerable and disadvantaged communities harder– African-Americans, for example, are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste.

The climate crisis is a health issue and an equity issue, and there’s only one way to fight it–lowering the amount of greenhouse gasses we put into the atmosphere.

Metropolis Magazine

Climate Crawl

A gathering of Northern California designers and activists to share climate action initiatives, challenges, innovations and stories.

The IIDA climate action committee is putting together a focus group – a representative from each of several firms in Northern California interested in addressing climate change. There is much that we can do as designers to retool and implement solutions at our firms. Every firm is in a different place in their journey, we feel it would be invaluable to share and learn from each other. Each month a different firm will host the C4 and share successes, challenges, and resources with the group. We are in this together and need to work together if we are going to move quickly to address the climate crisis.

Take a crawl through our conversations and see how our design community is working together to affect change in our community. Visit the Newsroom for all the recaps >>

Stay Informed

For the latest updates on Commercial Interior Design legislation in California, text “InteriorDesigner” to 52886

Interior Design Pledge for Positive Impact

We accept that the Interior Design Profession needs to be committed and accountable to creating positive change through our work.

Sign the pledge

Join our Climate Action Committee

We are actively seeking engaged members for our climate action committee. Join forces to ensure our chapter is leading this cause.