About Us

Certifications

Diversity Supplier: Woman-Owned Small Business

Registered Architect, Massachusetts

LEED AP

Municipal Vulnerability Provider

Connective Leadership Institute

Climate Creatives

Our unique engagement programs combine sustainability content with art and design experiences to pull people into your with goals with joy and commitment. Businesses, organizations, educational institutions, and communities develop an optimistic culture of sustainability, collaboration, and innovation. With over 125 partners, we have reached 500,000 people on-site in three countries, plus countless media impressions. Clients have included Harvard Business School, Fidelity Investments, Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, Harvard Innovation Lab, Newton Public Schools, Broward County, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, German Embassy, and many others.

Founder & President

Susan Israel, AIA, LEED AP

As an architect, artist, social entrepreneur and change agent, in 2008 I made a leap to do something more for our climate. What would motivate other people to do more as well? Something inspiring and visible. What was preventing people from acting? Fear, and lack of belief that their actions matter.  I founded Climate Creatives to use art and design to engage people because data alone doesn’t do it: behavioral change begins with an emotional commitment. From my background in art and design, I know the power of creating: how it can teach, engage and inspire far beyond other methods.

Prior, I practiced architecture at Graham Gund Associates, Moshe Safdie Architects and others before founding my own firm. I participate in the Clean Tech Open NE as a Mentor, on the Friends of UN World Oceans Day planning group, and as a Harvard alumni leader including as an HAA Board of Directors member (emeritus), Class Chair, and a Founder of Harvard Alumni for Climate and Environment (HACE). I am available for public speaking and contributing articles. I attended Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School of Design.