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Our Party Program builds climate leadership among creatives
Our Party Program builds climate leadership among creatives
We’re back for another season of The Determined Ones Podcast. To kick off season 4, we’d love to share with you an opportunity to join us…
Silence is Violence
Silence is Violence
The Determined supports the efforts of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for equity and justice.
Call-for-Entries: Earth Day/Climate Designers Poster Collection
Call-for-Entries: Earth Day/Climate Designers Poster Collection
“Earth Day 2020 will be far more than a day. It must be a historic moment when citizens of the world rise up in a united call for the…
What Does It Mean To Be An Environmentalist Today? Reporting back from VERGE, SOCAP, RES
What Does It Mean To Be An Environmentalist Today? Reporting back from VERGE, SOCAP, RES
We just got back from a whirlwind tour of 3 climate-focused conferences; SOCAP19, Verge19, and RES19. In this episode, Marc and Sarah…
It Takes Guts — An Interview with John Bielenberg
It Takes Guts — An Interview with John Bielenberg
We sat down to chat with our mentor and friend John Bielenberg while he and Marc were in Montana building out the Big Hemp project.
How to get a big positive vision off the ground
How to get a big positive vision off the ground
We love hearing from entrepreneurs with amazing visions to build a better future. And we hate when those visions fail before they’ve even…
Small design changes can make huge impact — An interview with Mike Morrison
Small design changes can make huge impact — An interview with Mike Morrison
In this 24 minute episode, we chat with Mike Morrison, creator of the #betterposter campaign to make the academic research poster easier…
AMA with The Determined
AMA with The Determined
We get a lot of random questions about our process and what it’s like working with us, since we’re not your typical design studio. This…
Rise of the Climate Designers
Rise of the Climate Designers
“There’s a new breed of designers emerging… designers that want to focus their creative talents towards solving our climate crisis. We’re…
Our climate crisis: A new opportunity for design students
Our climate crisis: A new opportunity for design students
In this 14 minute episode, we hope to empower concerned designers and aspiring entrepreneurs to have the tools they need to confidently go…
How Creativity Will Save the World — an interview with Katie Patrick
How Creativity Will Save the World — an interview with Katie Patrick
This week we sat down and had an inspiring 23 minute conversation with Katie Patrick, author of How to Save the World. Katie is an…
When to spend money in an early stage business
When to spend money in an early stage business
We meet a lot of entrepreneurs who have been in the bootstrapping frame of mind for so long, once their business does start making money…
Creating valuable businesses — an interview with Justin Lokitz and Maarten Van Lieshout of BMI
Creating valuable businesses — an interview with Justin Lokitz and Maarten Van Lieshout of BMI
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3 years in and we’re still learning a ton
3 years in and we’re still learning a ton
We started The Determined 3 years ago, so we spend this 26-minute episode exploring what we’ve learned over the last year — what didn’t go…
10 Mistakes that make your website look unprofessional
10 Mistakes that make your website look unprofessional
In this 27 min episode, we cover 10 mistakes we see climate startups and other orgs making on their websites, and we include simple tips…
Demo: How to prototype your messaging & marketing, and test it before you’ve built it.
Demo: How to prototype your messaging & marketing, and test it before you’ve built it.
In this 23 minute demo, Marc and I run through a sample website test, sharing how to set up and run a quick test so you can prototype your…
Communicating Our Climate Crisis — an Interview with Jim Giles
Communicating Our Climate Crisis — an Interview with Jim Giles
In this 17 minute episode, we interview journalist Jim Giles, who is on a mission to spread some much-needed hopeful news about our…
Business-to-business is still humans-to-humans (B2B=H2H)
Business-to-business is still humans-to-humans (B2B=H2H)
We talk to startups, accelerators, and investors who are working on products for B2B, and we get this question:
Two Tools to Help You Brand Your Climate-Focused Startup
Two Tools to Help You Brand Your Climate-Focused Startup
In this 16 minute episode, we walk through an exercise you can do with your team to:
How Thinking Wrong helps your climate startup be heard, stand out, and kick ass
How Thinking Wrong helps your climate startup be heard, stand out, and kick ass
In this 11 min episode, Marc and Sarah discuss how Thinking Wrong can amplify work that challenges the status quo. We’ll go into a few…
How can one tiny employee at a big corporation address our climate crisis?
How can one tiny employee at a big corporation address our climate crisis?
If you’re feeling concerned about climate change and wondering what you can do, without quitting your corporate job and becoming a climate…
When and how to invest in branding your climate startup
When and how to invest in branding your climate startup
In this 12 min episode, Marc and I discuss how design can be invaluable when starting a business, and why it shouldn’t be left for the…
Top 5 messaging mistakes climate organizations make
Top 5 messaging mistakes climate organizations make
In this 17 minute episode, we walk you through some of the biggest messaging mistakes we see climate companies making, and we share some…
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