An agency out of Vancouver, BC designed a beautiful website - DesignCanChange.org - aimed at educating and uniting the design community to use their influence and purchasing power to combat climate change.

Straight from the website: “Design Can Change works with the notion that we can collectively encourage substantial change. By utilizing our ability to effectively communicate and build interest, we can generate awareness and further the cause to end global warming.”

The site is successful in portraying dismal facts in such a beautiful manner (with a little help from their sponsor, Getty Images), with the underlying hope that we can all make a difference and that we are all responsible for change.

While the site has great tools and resources on what kind of steps to take to “greenify” your ways, it seems to have fallen short in generating conversation and action within their site - there is a blog that seems to have gone unnoticed.

On the positive side, you can “Take the Pledge” which garners you a spot within their worldwide directory that is accessible to any visitor. Hopefully being featured in Time Magazine’s 2008 “Design 100″ issue helped to direct more attention to the site and make use of the seemingly under-utilized tools.