Civilian Climate Corps

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 and ran until 1942. CCC put 3 million unskilled single men, between the ages of 18 and 25, to work planting trees, building bridges and campgrounds, establishing wildlife preserves, and create more than 700 parks. The proposed Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) Act is part of President Joe Biden's American Jobs Plan to help fight the climate crisis. This branding campaign hopes to promote the Civilian Climate Corps Act to the American public in hopes they will contact their representatives in Congress.

Eric Benson was born in Arizona and raised in Mid-Michigan where he later received his BFA in graphic and industrial design from the University of Michigan in 1998. He worked professionally as a UI/UX designer at Razorfish and Texas Instruments before he received his MFA in design from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. His MFA thesis became the internationally recognized and award-winning sustainable design website www.re-nourish.org. His work with Re-nourish translated into an academic career where he currently is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois