Thursday, February 25, 2010
Video: Recycling Innovations
Sorting Innovations, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. www.gruener-punkt.de. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Glass
Recycling Glass, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. www.gruener-punkt.de. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Paper
Recycling Paper, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. www.gruener-punkt.de. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Tinplate
Recycling Tinplate, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. www.gruener-punkt.de. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Aluminium
Recycling Aluminium, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. http://www.gruener-punkt.de/. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Tetrapak
Recycling Tetrapak, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. http://www.gruener-punkt.de/. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Video: Recycling Plastics
Recycling Plastics, from the video "Giving Packaging a New Life", ©2001 Duales System Deutschland, Frankfurter Straße 720-726 Köln Germany. http://www.gruener-punkt.de/. Produced by ECC Kohtes Klewes Bonn and realized by Film4Ma Köln.
Ebook: Natural Capitalism
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins. Snowmass: Rocky Mountain Institute, 1999.
Ebook: Sustainable Products
Sustainable Products: using Nature's cyclicsolarsafe Protocol for Design, Manufacturing and Procurement. Edwin Datschefski, 2002. www.biothinking.com
Ebook: Your Home, Sustainable Design Guide
Your Home: Design for Lifestyle and the Future. Includes Technical Manual. Canberra: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2008.
More at http://www.yourhome.gov.au/
More at http://www.yourhome.gov.au/
Ebook: Business Ecodesign Tools
Business Ecodesign Tools: Ecodesign Methods for Industrial Designers. Washington DC: Industrial Designers Society of America.
EBook: Product Innovation, the Green Advantage
Product Innovation, the Green Advantage: An Introduction to Design for Environment. Canberra: Environment Australia, 2000. ISBN 9780642547231
EBook: Global Warming, Cool It!
Global warming, cool it! A home guide to reducing energy costs and greenhouse gases. Canberra: Environment Australia, 1997. ISBN 0642194505.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Video: The 11th Hour
92 min documentary produced by Leonardo di Caprio. Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
Part 1
Part 1
Link to video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7676460785363705931#
Video: Waste = Food
A 56-min SBS documentary featuring the "Cradle to Cradle" concept proposed by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. Video link here. DVD available at UNSW Library.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Paul Polak: Out of Poverty
Paul Polak, author of Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail, discusses his 12 steps for effective problem solving to end global poverty.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Jane Chen: Embrace infant warmer
Embrace infant warmer costs only $45 compared to hospital incubators at $20,000.
More at Embrace Global
Design for the other 90%
An exhibition and book from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.
From the website:
Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 5.8 billion people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90% explores a growing movement among designers to design low-cost solutions for this “other 90%.” Through partnerships both local and global, individuals and organizations are finding unique ways to address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the world’s poor and marginalized.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
ICSID calls for Design Solutions for Disaster
In a global appeal following the devastation in Haiti, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) has launched a call to designers from all disciplines to unite in an open dialogue with international relief organisations to assess potential design-effective rehabilitation projects. In support of the UN’s efforts to help the Haitian people overcome challenges in relation to the country’s reconstruction plans, designers, academics and design students, as well as experienced developmental workers are encouraged to join the discussion and become a fan of the ‘Uniting Designers in Disaster’ page on Facebook.
Emily Pilloton on "Design Revolution" and Project H
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Emily Pilloton, industrial designer and founder of Project H Design, shows examples of humanitarian design which are showcased in her new book "Design Revolution: 100 products that empower people" (also published as "Design Revolution: 100 products that are changing people's lives")
Friday, February 5, 2010
Millennium Development Goals
Designing to End Poverty by 2015.
Various websites of the United Nations show information on the Millennium Development Goals:
SociallyResponsibleDesign.org
A project of the Design & Innovation Research Unit of the University of Salford. Website provides a downloadable summary and slide presentation on socially responsible design strategies.
FurnishWithAConscience.com
A project of the Salvation Army stores, provides fact sheets and advice from interior design experts on reusing other people's junk.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Ebook: Okala Ecodesign Guide
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) produced the Okala Ecodesign Guide in 2007 as an introduction to sustainable design for practicing and beginning designers. Click on the image above for an abridged version of the guide. Also downloadable in full here. The book is also available at the COFA Library: CFA 658.575/94. There's also lots of resources in the IDSA Ecodesign Section.
IDSA also produced the freely downloadable booklet Business Ecodesign Tools in 2000.
Sustainable Minds
Sustainable Minds 1.0 enables designers to create more environmentally sustainable products, integrating on-demand, Web-based software with educational content enabling users to apply ecodesign strategies to generate innovative and greener product concepts, and use life cycle assessment (LCA) to measure the potential environmental and human health impacts of the concepts. This delivers quantified performance metrics to facilitate design decisions that support greener products.
The video below shows Sustainable Minds working with Autodesk Inventor.
Solidworks Sustainability
SolidWorks Sustainability Xpress is a new SolidWorks Add-In that allows you to look at the Life Cycle Assessment of a part. This free download requires SolidWorks 2009 Sp2.1 or greater and will work with the SolidWorks Education Edition, Student Edition or Student Design Kit. Select material, manufacturing process, where manufactured, where used, and see different effects on the enviroment. Great library for finding similar materials based on physical and mass properties.
Click for other videos on Solidworks Sustainability here and here.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Video: Tim Brown: Designers should think big
Tim Brown, CEO of the innovation and design consultancy IDEO, comments that designers keep themselves busy with the less important issues in the world and asks that we consider participatory "design thinking."
IDEO Design Toolkits
Free downloadable resources for designers from IDEO, the world's largest industrial design organization.
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