My CXD Global Field Study (looking for Signals of Better related to Cities as Living Systems that are healthy, resilient, and regenerative — a mouthful I know...) STARTS TODAY! I am headed to Venice and then Barcelona, with side trips...

Extinction Rebellion (XR) is a decentralized, international movement using nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience to demand action against climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecological collapse. Founded in the UK in 2018...

A pictogram (or icon) is a graphic symbol that conveys meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object. It is pretty clear — no matter what language you speak — which side was which on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Kudos to artist and musician Miles Wintner regarding this bold, bright poster design for Earth Day. The composition, titled “Earthflower,” depicts our planet as a bloom held and admired in human hands, a figure of collective care drawn at a scale that renders the gesture...

Observed annually on April 22, Earth Day focuses on global environmental protection through campaigns including End Plastics, The Canopy Project, Climate and Environmental Literacy, Food and the Environment, and Fashion for the Earth.

I am going with Blue Sky. The expression “blue sky” refers to imaginative, expansive thinking without constraint. Like with brainstorming, we are not held back...

It doesn’t get any bolder than this. Cities benefit from visual identities, and this is New York’s — in its simplest form, on which a multitude of variations are based.