Eric Benson, a UI graphics professor, has been promoting the development of sustainable design standards and practices through his team's
“Re-nourish” web site. "While Benson and the others still have a fair distance to go before they succeed in revolutionizing the field, their showing in a recent competition confirms that they are headed in the right direction. The group’s sustainable design research site recently placed among the top three in the Cooper Hewitt People’s Design Award competition...as well as being selected as the “Web pick” of the week by Communications Arts, one of the graphic design field’s top publications." (http://www.rdmag.com/News/Feeds/2009/12/general-sciences-graphic-designer-wants-to-make-his-field-greener/)
This site is clean, clear and user-friendly in all of it's interactive areas. It's not intended to knock us out visually (although I find it to have a real fresh feel), but rather gives you easy access to the kind of information that we really need to incorporate into our daily m.o.'s as current and future designers.
