Katie Patrick

Katie Patrick I teach people how to save the world. I'm an environmental engineer and designer. I specialize in the nexus between data, game design and behavior change. Hello!

I'm Katie. I'm an environmental engineer and a software designer. I help social-change entrepreneurs, city innovators and sustainability managers implement powerful data, game design and behavior change techniques that create epic and measurable change. Get my free 5 day course on game design techniques for social impact here -> http://bit.ly/2uDfltM

My approach is designed to sharply tap into yo

ur audience's motivational core. I can help you use these principles to unleash your greatest innovations, inspiration and creativity, so you can experience the joy of implemeting a project that really does change the world. This is my professional bio:
Katie Patrick is an Australian-American environmental engineer, designer and computer programmer. Her company, Hello World Labs applies data-driven, gamification and behavior-change techniques to solve the world’s biggest environmental problems. She is the creator of the behavior change game and Youtube channel Detrashed, the author of Detrash Your Life in 90 Days - The Art of Zero Waste Living and the creator of Zerowastify an app designed to better measure municipal solid waste. Katie has been a media spokesperson on environmental issues and has been featured regularly on TV, radio and in print publications including Vogue Australia. She was CEO of the VC-funded green-lifestyle magazine Green Pages Australia and was appointed environmental brand ambassador by the Ogilvy Earth advertising agency for Volkswagen, Lipton Tea and Wolfblass Wines. She has served on the board of Australia’s national eco label, Good Environmental Choice Australia, and won the Cosmopolitan Woman of the Year Award for entrepreneurship. After graduating from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a B.Eng in Environmental Engineering, she worked as an environmental design engineer for building engineers Lincoln Scott in Sydney on some of the world’s first platinum-LEED-certified commercial buildings. Katie lives in San Francisco with her young daughter Anastasia.

07/09/2026

The sneakiest mistake and the No 1 invisible assumption almost every climate + environmental change-maker makes.

This is climate action design.

07/08/2026

I can't believe I didn't do this sooner. Try this one quick thing at home to bring back the butterflies for $10 and takes 10 minutes.

I am planting Milkweed seeds that I can use in pollinator gardens around my local area - some in public lands, school yards, and private gardens.

Find out which variety of milkweed your local caterpillars eat and start growing.

07/03/2026

You CAN regenerate the planet more than you think! Try this one quick thing at home to bring back the butterflies for $10 and takes 10 minutes.

I am planting Milkweed seeds that I can use in pollinator gardens around my local area - some in public lands, school yards, and private gardens.

If we don't sprout new milkweed plants for the Monarch caterpilllars, no one will! You have to get out there and make it happen. Literally the only reason we have ANY pollinator gardens in cities and suburbs is because folks made it happen.

Find out which variety of milkweed your local caterpillars eat and start growing.

Don't forget to cold statification (put them in the fridge for 2 weeks) if you are planting in warmer months.

07/03/2026
07/03/2026

3 tips for improving my scale model eco city. This thing is AMAZING for generating attention and meaningful conversations about environmental design, escpecially for kids.

Comment ECOCITY for a free detailed tutorial on how to make your own.

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