Re-nourish

07/28/2025

The event "The Climate Shift: Action, Optimism & What Matters Now" is just 8 days away and there are still free seats available!

🚨HUGE Update! Book Raffle!! (International winners will need to pay for shipping).

📚 Anne Therese Gennari will be raffling off her book "The Climate Optimist Handbook"
📚Jenny Morgan will be raffling off her book "Cancel Culture and Climate"
📚Kate O'Neill will be raffling off her book "What Matters Next"
📚Cate Mingoya-LaFortune will alwo be raffling off her book "Climate Action for Busy People"
📚Dana R. Fisher will, yes be raffling off her book "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action"

🌎 Register now for free! ->

Take a break from your daily grind and join Climify host Eric Benson for an energizing 90-minute conversation that redefines what it means to be hopeful in the…

07/21/2025

🎙️I'm proud to be hosting this inspirational event with amazingly awesome people!

The Climate Shift: Action, Optimism & What Matters Now
August 5, 2025 3-4:30 PM CST!

🌎 Register for free here! -> https://lu.ma/rvvp9ryl

​Take a break from your daily grind and join me for an energizing 90-minute conversation that redefines what it means to be hopeful in the face of the climate crisis. Featuring a dynamic panel of changemakers — Anne Therese Gennari, Jenny Morgan, Kate O'Neill, Cate Mingoya-LaFortune, Cynthia Leung, and Dr. Dana R. Fisher — this event invites you to explore the power of climate optimism not as blind hope, but as a courageous commitment to action.

07/11/2024

In 2011, I watched the film "Garbage Warrior" with my graphic design students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. We embraced Michael Reynold's (Earthship Biotecture) ethos to design & build with the important materials (glass, paper, metal, etc.) that society considers "waste" after use.

🌿 There is no waste in nature. Humans sadly invented it and continue to make it worse. This is one reason why I still do what I do in life. hashtag hashtag

Thirteen years later, I had the absolute privilege to interview Michael with Abigail Zhuk on the Climify Podcast and he refreshed my memory about how awesome his work is. He is bucking the standard method hashtag and construction companies use to create our homes. Michael calls his houses hashtag .

🌰 They feature:
- Use of natural and recycled materials
- Passive heating and cooling
- Solar energy
- Food production
- Water harvesting
- Contained sewage treatment

Listen to my interview with Michael!
🍎 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/4cZUPJt

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06/24/2024

Co-founder Eric Benson was on the Developing Life Podcast to discuss the Climify Podcast and the work of Re-nourish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW-9Yq9OuiA

In Episode 16 of The Developing Life Podcast- Planet-Positive thought leaders unpack the critical challenges of our modern world, from digital distractions t...

05/21/2024

💥 How do you change/disrupt the system?💥

In the upcoming season of Climify Podcast, we will be speaking with 10 individuals who are working to change and disrupt our systems of power to help address our hashtag . Our guests are involved in various action levels, from daily life to work, and even those who influence national policies. We will learn what has worked for them and how you can implement solutions in your home, hashtag studio, or curriculum to contribute to hashtag .

📢 Climify, season 4, will debut on June 12, 2024. Tune in on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Big thanks to Bhavna Bhavanishankar Abigail Zhuk Adam Thaddeus Dziąba Camryn Burkins Jacqui Himmel

04/25/2024

We're happy to support the amazing Climify Podcast!

A new episode came out today with Cam Burkins talking with Melinda Adams.

Dr. Melinda Adams to go deeper into her life and work. In particular, this episode explores solastalgia (or climate anxiety) and soliphilia (cures or mitigation methods against that anxiety). Melinda shares Traditional Ecological Practices that provide hope for our collective future, which will surely be Matriarchal!

https://www.climatedesigners.org/edu/climifypodcast/deep-dive-with-dr-melinda-adams-solastalgia-soliphilia

01/08/2024

❤️‍🩹 How can we feel our positive strides in 2023 made any difference if GHG emissions still rose? Good question. It’s a really really good question.

My answer, and that of climate experts like Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, is to realize that a continued determined push forward to reduce our GHG emissions is the only logical path we can take. Apathy and embracing the status quo (like a morning drive-thru at Starbucks) will undoubtedly backfire and help the corporations and politicians that help cause this mess to win.

As Dr. Gill says,
"…1.5 is better than two degrees. Two degrees is better than 2.5 than three than four, right? My God, every fraction of a degree is worth fighting for."

So, to find more inspiration for improving my climate actions, I reached out to three thought leaders from the past three seasons of the Climify Podcast.
(nisha mary poulose, Raz Godelnik, & Carissa Cabrera)

https://ericbenson.medium.com/climate-hope-for-2024-1bec86a7553b

What gives you hope for our world in 2024?

What was promising from 2023 and inspires Climify guests in 2024

11/15/2023

Looking for volunteers for Season 4 of Climify!

Position Title: Design Researcher

Position Description:
In season four of Climify, I plan to speak with six design educators. These design educators have already embraced climate science and justice in their research and pedagogy and my discussions with them will focus on their role in climate action and justice in addition to how they are bringing those topics effectively into the classroom and their research. Each episode will include not only the interview, but also a deeper journalistic dive into what they share; to help better define terminologies, resources, and the history of what they discuss.

The Design Researcher will help explore the full story beyond the interview. The Design Researcher will listen to the interview and locate interesting points where further research into the guest's jargon, life story, design work, methodologies, etc. can be researched to tell a deeper story woven into the interview. Think "Ooligies" podcast. In addition, they will help create questions for the guest and appear on the program. The ideal student would also be interested in climate or the environment as part of their future work or research to help make season 4 informative and entertaining.

08/18/2023

🌎 Thank you so much, everyone, season three of Climify is a wrap! 🎙️

What were your thoughts on the season?
What climate action have you taken inspired by our fantastic guests?
How great is Project Drawdown?

05/16/2023

I will be presenting about the podcast Climify at the UCDA Design Education Summit next week! If you are attending, please reach out so we can chat!

Apple Podcasts

05/03/2023

Designers and design educators! How do you best create a positive impact in communities? What does environmental justice look like?

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In this fifth episode of season 3, Pamela Fann, CDP, CDT Fann joins me to share her journey from Corporate America to diversity, inclusion, integration, and climate activist and entrepreneur. She shares how she defines restorative design, environmental justice, and how best we use their principles to tackle the entangled issues of racism and our climate crisis.

https://lnkd.in/ghjNFFDv