GREEN GRADS is an ongoing UK initiative founded and curated by multi-award-winning design journalist Barbara Chandler, known for her long-running pages in the London Evening Standard, to platform UK graduates engaging with eco-issues, such as sustainability, climate change, circular production, waste and pollution, diminishing resources, biophilia, bio-diversity and much more.  

Kurt was offered a place with GreenGrads UK for his works efforts and ideology towards using sustainable methods and renewable materials in ceramics. Kurt has pledged to continue his work towards highlighting marine life issues and continuing to develop his pit fired work to show how renewable materials can be used to decorate ceramics without mined materials.