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Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice

Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice

The book walks the reader through how to design using systems thinking with Mother Nature as a model for creation.

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Redefining Regenerative Design

What the Five Principles of Soil Health Can Teach Designers

4 min readDec 28, 2022

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Redefining Regenerative Design

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Climate Hope for 2024

What was promising from 2023 and inspires Climify guests in 2024

5 min readJan 8, 2024

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Sunset over a field of windmills

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Firewater, Oklahoma

Formerly Stillwater, Oklahoma May 7, 2047 96 F 80% humidity 30% chance of precipitation

20 min readSep 22, 2023

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Firewater, Oklahoma

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Climate (AI)ction

Image made in Midjourney with the prompt “solar power and green fields and ai — ar 7:4”

5 min readJul 27, 2023

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Climate (AI)ction

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Should we Rebrand Climate Action?

“You cannot talk about anything without talking about climate.” — Gabrielle Mérite (Information Designer & Data Illustrator)

5 min readApr 7, 2023

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Should we Rebrand Climate Action?

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The Shopping Maul

In Canada and America, “Black Friday” is the day after Thanksgiving. The ominous sounding name is hardly a bad moniker for multi-national…

4 min readNov 26, 2022

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The Shopping Maul

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Climate Change Solutions Need the Design Educator, Now.

Reflections on the First Season of the Climify Podcast

7 min readApr 14, 2022

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Climate Change Solutions Need the Design Educator, Now.

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A Proposal to Connect all Design for the Common Good

Systems Thinking is “the way”

9 min readFeb 18, 2021

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A Proposal to Connect all Design for the Common Good

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Behind the Syllabus: How to Introduce Climate Science into your Design Curriculum

The Beginning In January 2019, I emailed a few design faculty I knew in North America. From Toronto to California, I hoped to recruit a…

4 min readJul 2, 2020

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Behind the Syllabus: How to Introduce Climate Science into your Design Curriculum

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Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101:

A Toolkit for Making Positive Impact

3 min readDec 7, 2019

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Systems Thinking for the Graphic Designer 101:

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Eric Benson

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Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder of Re-nourish & Fresh Press Agri-Fiber Paper Lab.

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