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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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William McDonough (Author)
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Michael Braungart (Author)
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North Point Press (Editor)
A manifesto for a radically different philosophy and practice of manufacture and environmentalism
"Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic. Why not challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world, they ask.
In fact, why not take nature itself as our model? A tree produces thousands of blossoms in order to create another tree, yet we do not consider its abundance wasteful but safe, beautiful, and highly effective; hence, "waste equals food" is the first principle the book sets forth. Products might be designed so that, after their useful life, they provide nourishment for something new-either as "biological nutrients" that safely re-enter the environment or as "technical nutrients" that circulate within closed-loop industrial cycles, without being "downcycled" into low-grade uses (as most "recyclables" now are).
Elaborating their principles from experience (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, the authors make an exciting and viable case for change.
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Ecodesign: The Sourcebook
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Alastair Fuad-Luke (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
Alas, environmentally friendly design hasn?t always meant high style. Confronting that challenge head on, ecoDesign lists well over 500 consumer products for those who seek design that?s not only beautiful and useful, but also has minimal impact on the earth. Some of these pieces-from clothing to kitchenware, electronics, furniture, and much, much more-have already become classics. But this remarkable sourcebook also guides readers to undiscovered gems and handcrafted objects from artisanal studios. Detailed illustrated entries describe the products themselves, while an extensive reference section defines these new and hybrid materials and provides information on manufacturers, design studios, green organizations, and a further reading list. ecoDesign is the total resource guide for a new generation of contemporary design.
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ecoDesign: The Sourcebook: Third Fully Revised Edition
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Alastair Fuad-Luke (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
With this revised edition, ecoDesign cements its reputation as the definitive guide to recycled, recyclable, renewable, and energy-efficient products. From fashion and furniture to cars and cosmetics, this copiously illustrated and easy-to-use sourcebook showcases hundreds of examples of great design, all created with the earth's future firmly in mind. Each entry includes detailed product information, while a vast resource section that lists manufacturers, design studios, and organizations makes it easy for consumers to find and use these innovative products. Fully revised for this third edition with entirely new entries and updated manufacturer info, ecoDesign contains all the resources to craft a smartly sustainable (and supremely stylish!) future.
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Experimental Eco-Design: Product, Architecture, Fashion
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Cara Brower (Author)
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Rachel Mallory (Author)
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Zachary Ohlman (Author)
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RotoVision (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
A showcase of outstanding and innovative work that shows that EcoDesign needn't mean dull design. This book highlights new ways of thinking about sustainable design, while showcasing innovative product. It is a collection of outstanding, innovative product, graphic, fashion, and environment designs. The thoughts of the world's leading designers - Ezio Manzini (Italy), Ed Van Hinte (the Netherlands), Droog members Richard Hutten (the Netherlands) and Bless (France), Tom Dixon (UK), Jan Dranger (Sweden) and Edwin Datschefski (UK) - provide a grounding in the materials, methods, and processes behind outstanding projects: their work provides visual inspiration for innovative design. Experimental EcoDesign offers inspirational reading for anyone interested in green design also coming with an extensive directory of sources of materials, manufacturers, design studios, and organizations.
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Green Design
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Buzz Poole (Editor)
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Mark Batty Publisher (Editor)
A fuel cell powered backpack and clothes made from sonic fabric are just two of the innovative ideas included in Green Design. By examining how companies such as American Apparel and Lego have been able to understand their places in the business world as places in the physical world, Green Design shows how designers and companies that take progressive, creative approaches to products and product marketing can satisfy bottom lines as they maintain environmental and social values. Though the book features color photographs of all the small products mentioned, Green Design is not a glorified catalog. It is a collection of products that exemplifies the work of designers leading the trend for people to downsize and upgrade their lives for the betterment of one another and the world we share. With essays by writers who have collectively contributed to Wired, Mother Jones, NPR?s All Things Considered, Entertainment Weekly, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Print, The San Francisco Chronicle, I.D., dwell and Photo District News, Green Design is a book suited for designers implementing aspects of green design and consumers who want to be informed about the products they buy.
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Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
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Ray Anderson (Author)
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Peregrinzilla Press (Editor)
Of value to business people, environmentalists, and educators alike, Mid-Course Correction is a business book about the enviornment that's written from a personal perspective. With passion and pride, Ray Anderson, Founder, Chairman and CEO of one of the world's largest interior furnishings companies, recounts his awakening to the importance of environmental issues and outlines the steps his petroleum-dependent company, Atlanta-based Interface, Inc., is taking in its quest to become a sustainable enterprise -- one that will never have to take another drop of oil from the Earth. Thought-provoking and thoughtful, Anderson's story is told from the heart.
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Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design
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Wendy Jedlicka (Author)
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Wiley (Editor)
How to take the lead with sustainable packaging design solutions
With initiatives like the Wal-Mart Scorecard in the U.S. and the E.U.'s Packaging Directive, delivering sustainable packaging is now an integral part of today's global competitive market. Written by experts from a wide variety of fields, here is a comprehensive, single source of actionable information that enables everyone involved in the design and development process to make smart, informed decisions, opening new possibilities for creating truly innovative solutions.
Wendy Jedlicka, CPP (Roseville, MN) is President of Jedlicka Design Ltd. and a member of the faculty at Minneapolis College of Art and Design's groundbreaking Sustainable Design Certificate Program. A Certified Packaging Professional, she serves as Upper Midwest Chapter Chair (o2umw.org), as well as U.S. co-coordinator for the o2 Global Green Design Network (o2.org), and contributes frequently to Packaging Design magazine's "Sustainability Update" feature column.
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The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability: Charting the Conceptual Landscape through Economy, Ecology, and Culture
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Ann Thorpe (Author)
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Island Press (Editor)
Designing for sustainability is an innovation shaping both the design industry and design education today.Yet architects, product designers, and other key professionals in this new field have so far lacked a resource that addresses their sensibilities and concerns. The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability now explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design-designers' choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world-but also the economic and cultural elements involved.
The Atlas is neither a how-to manual nor collection of recipes for sustainable design, but a compendium of fresh approaches to sustainability that designers can incorporate into daily thinking and practice. Illuminating many facets of this exciting field, the book offers ideas on how to harmonize human and natural systems, and then explores practical options for making the business of design more supportive of long-term sustainability. An examination of the ethical dimensions of sustainable development in our public and private lives is the theme present throughout. Like other kinds of atlases, The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability illustrates its subject, but it goes far beyond its visual appeal, stimulating design solutions for "development that cultivates environmental and social conditions that will support human well-being indefinitely."
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The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office
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Alastair Fuad-Luke (Author)
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Thames & Hudson Ltd (Editor)
The Eco-Design Handbook is the first book to present the best-designed objects for every aspect of the home and office, including the most environmentally sound materials and building products. The book contains three essential components. An introduction puts forward the history and latest thinking in green design strategies. Its core comprises two sections devoted to detailed illustrated descriptions of objects for domestic living and products for the office or work-related activities. The third element is a vast reference source, defining available materials, from organic to specially developed eco-sensitive composites and then providing detailed information on manufacturers, design studios, green organizations, online information, as well as further reading and a glossary of useful terms and concepts. Lastly, a comprehensive index makes it possible for the reader to find any product, designer or manufacturer instantly. This is a complete resource, equally invaluable for the broad consumer market and for design professionals.
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