In the heart of Climate Week, amid the hum of possibility and urgency, The WIE Suite’s members catalyzed something more than conversation—they brought forward entirely new modes of imagining what sustainability, food systems, and design can be. Across immersive experiences, convenings, and collaborative dinners, these women wove narrative, science, and beauty into a vision for tomorrow that feels possible now.
Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD, invited us into a world where sustainability is not a burden but a seduction. Her creation, PlanetHAUS, transformed typical event architecture into a living, breathing, sensual exploration of climate, culture, and collective imagination.
More one thousand guests passed through rooms that married art, science, and activism – spaces lit by ideas as much as light fixtures. Onstage, voices like Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Sir David Adjaye, Sam Kass, Camilla Marcus, and Benjamin Bronfman pushed the questions deeper: “What happens when sustainability becomes seduction? When data becomes desire? When carbon becomes craveability?”
Guests ranged from fellow WIE Suite members Nichelle Sanders and Genevieve Roth to actors including Miss Peppermint, Chiké Okonkwo, and Alysia Reiner, and brands such as Carhartt, Coyuchi, ThredUp, Seed, and Cesta. Nonprofits from The Footwear Collective to Farmlink and Rethink Food came in dialogue. The goal: to make climate feel less like a chore and more like a cultural moment.
“PlanetHAUS showed that the future we need won’t be won on sacrifice, but on irresistible design.”
Julia and her team dared us to see a future where once-fractured systems converge: fashion, food, soil, health. Already, the gears are turning for PlanetHAUS II, slated for San Francisco’s Climate Week in April 2026.
On another evening, Vanessa Barboni Hallik, Co-CEO of Another Tomorrow, formally signed The Climate Pledge, committing her company to net zero emissions by 2040. But she did more than sign: she gathered visionaries over dinner, including WIE Suite member Stephanie Roberson, Chief Merchandising Officer of Shopbop, to deepen dialogue between sustainable fashion and cultural momentum.
Vanessa’s reflection from the week resonated with us:
“So much has changed this year and the tide has really gone out. I’m more excited and energized than I’ve ever been.”
In those intimate conversations, climate strategy met storytelling, supply chains met artistry, and business met belonging.
Camilla Ruth Marcus, founder of west~bourne, proclaimed a paradigm shift in how we eat, grow, and care for Earth. Her belief: regenerative agriculture is not niche, but foundational to climate justice, health, and sovereignty.
She pressed us to see the hidden abundance in soil:
“Consumers are shifting as they are learning more about the greater nutrient density of regenerative food … with healthy and rich soil comes vastly greater vitamins, minerals … We are going after the $1T supplement industry because the solution to the climate crisis … is regenerative food.”
Collaboration became her central call: seed to shelf, farmer to consumer, brand to community. In conversation and in conviction, she urged that food’s future be built from roots upward.
