EcoGraphic :: Communication and Design

In her latest book Green for Life, Victoria Boutenko emphasizes the importance of adding greens to our diet, in order to stay healthy and happy.
From the Inside Cover:
In search of the perfect human diet, Victoria Boutenko compares th standard American diet with the diet of wild chimpanzees. Chimpanzees share an […]

The communications giants are currently lobbying the US Congress to pave the way for tiered internet service. This would allow Internet Service Providers like AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth to charge for, and limit access to Internet content and delivery.
Commercial content providers with deep pockets would be able to pay for high-speed content delivery, […]

For only £50 you can own a piece of the English Countryside. Join the FordHall Community Land Initiative and help Charlotte and Ben Hollins save their family’s organic farm from developers.
For only £50 (approx. $100 Cdn.) you can own a share in Fordhall Farm, and save an important piece of the English countryside […]

Over the next several years, Sustainability by Design will create and coordinate a series of design briefs, research tools, stakeholder design charrettes, educational events, community workshops, exhibitions and publications. Municipal officials, researchers, citizens and local stakeholders will explore consensus-based concepts for how a sustainable region might evolve. These community processes, research initiatives and policy […]

The Visual Thesaurus is a remarkable dictionary and thesaurus with an intuitive interface. The Visual Thesaurus provides visual thinkers with an exceptional tool for writing, brainstorming and research. The searched word is displayed in the middle of the screen, with related words appearing around it, creating a connected, semantic map. Meanings and definitions are […]

CORNER BROOK - A national conference aimed at drawing attention to conservation and stewardship issues will be held in western Newfoundland this summer.
Valuing Nature: Stewardship and Conservation in Canada 2006 will be held in Corner Brook, Newfoundland July 5-8 2006 at the Pepsi Centre and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College. Held every three years, Stewardship […]

Today there are magazines published for every interest imaginable. The list of available titles is endless, and the number of publications concerned with the well-being of our planet is expanding as environmentalism, global warming and sustainability become popular issues. While most publications do an exceptional job of reporting recent news and events, and articles […]

A small company on Vancouver Island in British Columbia has developed a new soil which not only recycles fish and wood processing waste, but replicates as closely as possible the nutrients found in the forest floor. By combining forest fines and fish fines leftover from processing, and then aging the new soil for an […]

Sustainable Design is the new black in the Design World. We often talk about practicing sustainable design, however we often forget to consider what we are in fact sustaining, or attempting to sustain. In a marketing-zealous world, many projects are now labeled ‘green’ and yet how ‘green’ are they?

Since the headline is the first contact your readers have with your message, it must reach out to them. Promise them a benefit.