Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Ebook: Guided tour in Ecodesign
This e-book, Guided Tour in Ecodesign, www.ivt.ntnu.no/ipd/fag/ecodesign, was based on the book, "Ecodesign: a Promising Approach to Sustainable Production & Consumption", ©1997 Technical University of Delft & United Nations Environment Programme. A copy of the printed book is available at UNSW Library: PQ 745.2/127.
The book mentions 8 ecodesign strategies, and under those a total of 33 substrategies. Explanations can be found in Module A and Chapter 5.1 of the book.
1. Dematerialization
2. Shared use of the product
3. Integration of functions
4. Functional optimization of product (components)
5. Cleaner materials
6. Renewable materials
7. Lower energy content materials
8. Recycled materials
9. Recyclable materials
10. Reduction of weight
11. Reduction in (transport) volume
12. Alternative production techniques
13. Fewer production steps
14. Lower/cleaner energy consumption
15. Less production waste
16. Fewer/cleaner production consumables
17. Less/cleaner/reusable packaging
18. Energy-efficient transport mode
19. Energy-efficient logistics
20. Lower energy consumption
21. Cleaner energy sources
22. Fewer consumables needed
23. Cleaner consumables
24. Reduce wastage of energy and other consumables
25. Reliability and durability
26. Easier maintenance and repair
27. Modular product structure
28. Classic design
29. Stronger product-user relation
30. Reuse of product
31. Remanufacturing/refurbishing
32. Recycling of materials
33. Safer incineration
These strategies were also reiterated in Chapter 8 of the e-book D4S Design for Sustainability: A practical approach for developing economies, freely downloadable at www.d4s-de.org.
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, May 9, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Ebook: Ingredients
Free ebook on materials for industrial design by Chris Lefteri.
www.moreingredients.com
www.moreingredients.com
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
WHO Technical Notes for Emergencies
A downloadable collection of technical notes PDFs, including
Cleaning wells after seawater flooding
Cleaning and disinfecting wells
Cleaning and disinfecting water storage tanks
Rehabilitating small-scale water distribution systems
Emergency treatment of drinking water at point-of-use
Rehabilitating water treatment works after an emergency
Solid waste management in emergencies
Disposal of dead bodies in emergency conditions
Essential hygiene messages
Emergency sanitation
Care Cube: Swiss Army Knife for a Village
Designed by Alexander Rose and Danny Hillis for the 2004 Popular Science Design Challenge, to supply clean water, communications and power after a disaster. Rose and Hillis’s aircraft-deployable station comes equipped with a water-purification unit, a computer and PDA-like networked communication devices, and a Stirling engine and power generator. An induction hose sucks in river water for purification. Users can borrow PDAs, which ping messages to one another and, when close enough to home base, into cyberspace. To make electricity, users either hop onto a stationary bike and pedal, hamster-style, or they can burn wood, rice husks or other combustibles. Weather permitting, the station’s Stirling engine can also run on solar power.
Other prize winning entries can be viewed here.
Ebook: An Inconvenient Truth
Downloadable study guide for the climate change movie, An Inconvenient Truth, winner of the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. If you haven't watched it yet, go and rent the DVD! There are also two copies you can borrow from the UNSW Library PDVD 363.73874/63. Click here for the trailer.Full video here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8847562857479496579#
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Ezine: MADE Materials And Design Exchange
Free online copy of the MADE (Materials and Design Exchange) magazine. A free MADE ezine subscription offer is also available on the IOM3 website.
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