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Behind the Syllabus

Climate Designers – Behind the Syllabus: A Four-Episode Climate Podcast!

Since the summer of 2019, Re-nourish has been helping to get the Climate Designers project launched and effective in creating climate action in the design community. As part of that... read more →
  • July 17, 2020
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Climate Desigenrs, Systems thinking, Teaching
Veronica Pham

Behind the Pen: How our illustrations were made with artist Veronica Pham

When we decided to re-do the content and look of our site, we knew we wanted to return to our roots of digital illustrations. When we switched to photography, it... read more →
  • January 29, 2020
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Artists, Projects

Trees are our past & future

As a kid I played outside mainly because my parents forced me too. However, I turned those demands into adventures filled with many good memories from my backyard, playgrounds, and... read more →
  • October 3, 2019
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles
I am a climate designer

I am a climate designer

In early 2019, I started to prepare for my spring 2019 courses at the University of Illinois. That term I was assigned to teach EDGE (Ethics of a Designer in... read more →
  • September 30, 2019
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Teaching

How to teach systems thinking to designers: An Illinois Case Study

At the end of our 2016 book “Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design In Practice,” we wrote that our systems thinking for designers process was in its infancy and and... read more →
  • January 25, 2018
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Education, Systems thinking, Teaching

Compassionate Systems Design: A framework for sustainable cultures

A cultural celebration exists in a time and space where we come together to celebrate who we are and what we value. It also helps us honor our past, present... read more →
  • March 7, 2017
  • Charlene Sequeira
  • Articles, Research, Teaching

What is the Future of Graphic Design after the 2015 Paris Climate Talks?

“No matter the outcome of the international climate negotiations, it is clear that now more than ever before, we need the ideas and contributions of as many people as possible... read more →
  • January 13, 2016
  • Eric Benson
  • Articles, Conferences

Closing the Sustainability Gap: The Emerging Role of Sustainable Graphic Designer

Abstract   This research examines the emerging role of sustainable graphic designer. A current gap exists between a small group of highly-motivated sustainable graphic designers and the rest of the... read more →
  • October 30, 2015
  • Amy Dirtz
  • Articles

Going (and Staying) Green: Momentum for the Sustainability Movement

Some may argue that the trend towards “going green” began with the release of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) and the brief American disillusionment with oil that began in the... read more →
  • October 28, 2013
  • Elizabeth Phillips
  • Articles

Reflections on the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Chicago

I never considered myself an environmentalist before I undertook a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies. To be perfectly honest, I still don’t see the stereotypical tree-hugging, granola-eating environmentalist when I... read more →
  • October 2, 2013
  • Todd Barsanti
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