LibGuides: Sustainable Design: General & Multiple Applications

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Videos to Borrow

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Blue Vinyl

Circulation Desk Video TH2238.5 .B584 2002 c.1

Manufactured Landscapes

Circulation Desk DVD TR706 .E39 2007

The Next Industrial Revolution

Circulation Desk DVD QH541 .N49 2001

Maquilapolis

Circulation Desk DVD HD6101.Z6 T55 2006

An Inconvenient Truth

Circulation Desk DVD QC981.8.G56 I533 2006

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Circulation Desk. DVD TL220. W46 2006

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About This Page

Resources on this page offer information about social, environmental, and economic implications of a broad range of materials, products, and practices.

It is not the intention of this resource to promote or endorse any one designer or source of information.

Bibliography

Cradle to Cradle
McDonough, William and Braungart, Michael. NY: North Pint Press, 2002.

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Drawing on their experience in (re)designing everything from carpeting to corporate campuses, McDonough and Braungart make an exciting and viable case for change, and for putting eco-effectiveness into practice. And they show how anyone involved with making anything can begin to do so as well.
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability
Thorpe, Ann. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007

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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
Eco-Design: The Sourcebook
Fuad-Luke, Alastair. Eco Design: the Sourcebook. San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2006.

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The latest edition of this definitive sourcebook includes up-to-the-minute listings for more than seven hundred consumer products from clothing to kitchenware, electronics to furniture that have a minimal impact on the earth while remaining useful and beautiful. This remarkable compendium also directs readers to little known gems and handcrafted objects from artisanal studios.
Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Subscription required, articles available through ILL.
Sustainability, Science, Practice, & Policy
an open access e-journal

WebSites and Blogs

101 Things Designers Can Do
The Basel Convention
Biomimicry Institute
Design for the Environment
An EPA partnership program
Earth Policy Institute
Environmental Health Perspectives
Government/Department of Health & Human Services - U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sponsored publication for reports on studies of health effects of environmental factors.
Environmental Working Group
Fair Trade Fondation
Metropolis Magazine
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Next Industrial Revolution
McDonough & Braungart
Science & Environmental Health Network
SEHN has been the leading proponent in the United Statesfor the Precautionary Principle.
Slow Design Movement
The Story of Stuff
A video defining the Life Cycle Analysis that includes environmental, social, and economic impacts of our material production & consumption
Sustainability At Fit
Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy.
an e-journal
Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative
A roadmap for improving the sustainability of bioplastics –defined as plastics which derive 100% of their carbon from renewable agricultural and forestry resources.
Waste-for-Life
World Resources Institute

Sustainable Design: General & Multiple Applications

Frequently Asked Questions / InterLibrary Loan

Videos to Borrow

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About This Page

Bibliography

WebSites and Blogs

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