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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
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Victor Papanek (Author)
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Thames & Hudson (Editor)
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Ecodesign: The Sourcebook
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Alastair Fuad-Luke (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
DesignAddict review:
Green Design colorfully documents the rising trend to create and market new and innovative products that help consumers downsize and upgrade their lives. Through a carefully chosen selection of green toys, objects, fabrics, paper and alternative energy sources, the photographs and articles in Green Design illustrate what happens when green-minded lifestyles meet well-designed, high quality products. Many of the examples in this book show how successful business plans can flourish when ecological and social responsibility are core considerations.
Though the book features color photographs of all the products mentioned - from American Apparel to Lego to Sonic Fabric to Jimi Wallets to Stupid Sock Creatures - Green Design is not a glorified catalog. It is a well-focused collection of products created by over 50 designers that exemplifies their work and the inspiration behind it.
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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Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise: The Interface Model
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Ray Anderson (Author)
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Peregrinzilla Press (Editor)
In 1991, Chelsea Green published Beyond the Limits, the revision and updating of The Limits of Growth by Dennis and Donella Meadows, and Jorgen Randers. Their book helped greatly to popularize the phrase "sustainable living." Over time at Chelsea Green, our publishing program has sought new and delightful ways to apply the principles of sustainable living. This effort has seen new books published on subjects as diverse as flower farming and building houses from straw bales.
For the most part, however, sustainable living is not a valued concept in the business community, where "growth" is narrowly defined as synonymous with money, and is considered by many to be the sole indicator of success. This is the world in which Ray Anderson was reared. After graduating as an industrial engineer from Georgia Tech, where he also played on the football team, he followed a traditional and successful business path, until in 1973 he was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and founded Interface, Inc., a carpet manufacturing company.
Over the next two decades, Interface grew and prospered, a success by most traditional business indicators of growth-revenues, profits, products, and territories. Ray Anderson, however, found himself growing increasingly uneasy, a discomfort that became focused when he read Paul Hawken's book The Ecology of Commerce. It became instantly clear to him that the processes of nature must be incorporated into every aspect of his life, including his company.
Mid-Course Correction is the personal story of Ray Anderson's realization that businesses need to embrace principles of sustainability, and of his efforts, often frustrating, to apply these principles within a billion dollar corporation that is still measured by the standard scorecards of the business world. While the path has proved to have many curves, Interface is demonstrating that the principles of sustainability and financial success can co-exist within a business, and can lead to a new prosperity that includes human dividends as well.
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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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The Eco-Design Handbook
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Alastair Fuad-Luke (Author)
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Thames & Hudson Ltd (Editor)
This one-stop sourcebook for designers and consumers alike is a guide to ecologically sensitive and consumer-friendly furniture and objects for everyday use.
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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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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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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)
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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