Thursday, November 11, 2010

NoMix toilets


Today I had a meeting at the UTS Institute of Sustainable Futures and in their mens rooms they had installed the NoMix urine separating toilets, to recover phosphorus from urine for use in urban agriculture.
More info at TreeHugger and Novaquatis.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Video: BioSand Filters



Thursday, September 2, 2010

Ebook: Ecodesign, a promising approach to sustainable consumption and production



From
Brezet JC & Van Hemel CG.
Ecodesign: a Promising Approach to Sustainable Production & Consumption

©1997 Technical University of Delft & United Nations Environment Programme

http://www.ivt.ntnu.no/ipd/fag/ecodesign/theory/theory_frames.htm

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Video: Dirty Water Vending Machine



Thanks to Jessica Tong for supplying this link.

Video: Cycling in Copenhagen



Thanks to Tom Wilson for supplying this link.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Absurd products: Toot Tone

Absurd products: Better Marriage Blanket



More at https://bettermarriageblanket.com/

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Ebook: Ingredients


Free ebook on materials for industrial design by Chris Lefteri.

www.moreingredients.com

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Video: B-cycle




More at
www.bcycle.com

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/finally_urban_bike_sharing_comes_to_the_states_16428.asp

Tuesday, April 20, 2010



More at http://www.ozharvest.org/

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Video: Design Thinking

Friday, April 9, 2010

Thursday, April 8, 2010

UNSW finalist entry to Australian Design Awards



By Sam Adeloju, BID'09

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010

RagBag


Fashion items upcycled from disposable HDPE shopping bags, picked up from the trash heaps of India.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Plastics Identification



For the 3-step method for plastic identification click here.

For the 7 ID codes for plastics click here.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Design for disassembly and recycling










Rexite.com




Rexite Attila and Rexite Cricket, compactors for aluminium cans and PET bottles, designed by Julian Brown.

Tectan.de

Video: Nike Trash Talk




Video: Chindogu un-useless Japanese inventions



Volumes 1 and 2 of this book by Kenji Kawakami are available at the UNSW Library under P608.752/1.

Report: Useless Christmas gifts



More here
http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=337627
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1525907.htm

Video: Philips Chulha stoves



More at
http://www.design.philips.com/chulha

Video: Compressed Air car



More at http://www.mdi.lu/english

Core 77 Human Power Challenge




More at http://www.core77.com/challenge/humanpower

Enoughness.co.uk





Some of the recipients of the Landfill Prize include the Bra Dryer, the Motorized Ice Cream Cone, and the Philips Sonicare with UV sanitizer.

Video: Reverse vending



iForm.net


Fox-Fibre.com


Nike Air Jordan XX3


Video: UK Folding Plug

SoftAirDesign.com


Restbox.com

Ebook: Lifecycle Design Strategies


Book: Design for the real world, by Victor Papanek


Mobile Christmas


Video: Who killed the electric car?


Who killed the electric car?
©2006, 90 min
DVD available at UNSW Library PDVD 629.2293/29
Trailer at www.sonyclassics.com/whokilledtheelectriccar/electric.html
Trailer at http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJAlrYjGz8
Full video here: http://www.viddler.com/explore/etika/videos/7/
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Web: OnePlanetLiving.org


WWF posters

Why UAE has the highest per capita footprint








Ebook: Living Planet Report

Book: Earth at Night, by NASA


Book: Material World, by Peter Menzel




Resist-NoShopping.com


Ebook & Interactive: Design Can Change



Ebook also available here.

Video: Playpumps





More at www.playpumps.org

Monday, March 22, 2010

Video: Greenfly > design greener products



Higher quality videos available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php

Downloadable material data sheets and design guidelines available at http://greenflyonline.org/video.php

Ebook: Our Choice