Eric is hosting, and Re-nourish again is sponsoring the current season of Climify on the Climate Designers' network. Season 2 will feature a range of provocative and engaging climate and... read more →
As part of my existential search to figure out my life, I'm taking it day-by-day. In that journey, I have asked myself for years "what makes a good day?" I... read more →
What makes a good day? This is a question I’ve been asking myself daily even before my normal routine was hijacked by the 2020 pandemic. Days currently blend together. I... read more →
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 →
The planet and humanity needs designers to change the way they make things. This was the astutely accurate thesis from the 2002 book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by... read more →
This past spring 2014 semester I joined forces with two other design educators from vastly different teaching institutions than my own to test the most effective way to teach sustainable... read more →
During the fall of 2011, I had coffee with a Professor from Architecture where we hatched out a plan to use our respective spring 2012 courses to create a functioning... read more →
As I've written before about teaching sustainability in manageable chunks, I took the opportunity this fall 2011 semester to continue to perfect this pedagogy. I allow the students to only... read more →
Information visualization explores how to represent data and communicate information in effective and interesting ways. This semester at Purdue University, I am taking a course in Information Visualization Design where... read more →
Yesterday I was awarded a $22,500 grant from the University of Illinois Student Sustainability Committee to investigate a more sustainable means of making paper from agri-fiber and agri-fiber waste. I... read more →