Domestic Greenclean
Resources
Sustainable Design Resources
The UK Government's Sustainable Development Unit
http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/
Sustainable design portal
http://www.eco.barkingcrickets.org/
Resource for sustainable design links.
ecosustainable HUB
http://www.ecosustainable.com.au/links.htm
Another source of useful information.
o2 | UK
UK arm of worldwide o2 sustainable design network.
ESPDesign.org
Entirely Sustainable Product Design - a good overview of key concepts and tools involved in sustainable design.
London Remade
London centered group focusing on increasing recycling markets within the capital.
The Centre for Sustainable Design
General interesting links and websites
Communities and Local Government Select Committee Report on Refuse Collections (July 2007)
BBC story on Select Committee Report
GE Ecomagination
MBDC
MBDC is a product and process design firm dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide. William McDonough and Dr. Michael Braungart founded MBDC in 1995 to promote and shape what they call the "Next Industrial Revolution" through the introduction of a new design paradigm called Cradle to Cradle Design, and the implementation of eco-effective design principles. See also under books.
GreenBlue
Outlet for MBDC research
ELEMENT06
Sustainable design company.
Internetwork for sustainability
SRD - Society for Responsible Design
An Australian site combining the efforts of society and industry through environmentally and socially responsible design practices to make products and services significantly better.
Sustainable Business Network
http://www.sustainable.org.nz/home.asp
New Zealand based business network.
Locus Research
New Zealand based sustainable design and research company.
worldchanging
Interesting environmentally focused ideas
Design: Green
Highlighting the business feasibility of green products.
Massive Change
Website (and book) illustrating and discussing the possibilities of interconnected human and global development through design.
Packaging
Visy Closed Loop
http://www.visyclosedloop.com/index.php
Closed loop packaging - providing cost effective environmental packaging, that can be captured after use, recycled and manufactured into new products.
WRAP
UK resource efficiency programme
Sustainability books
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability, Ann Thorpe, Island Press (February
2007) ISBN-10: 1597261009
An illustrated book that presents an accessible conceptual overview of
the three main landscapes for design and how designers can navigate them
Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Earthscan Publications Ltd (November 2000) ISBN 1853837636
Reanalysing the way in which we value the environment whilst also saving money.
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change, Victor Papanek, Thames & Hudson Ltd (November 1985) ISBN 0500273588
Classic text looking at the social and environmental responsibility of the designer.
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture, Victor Papanek, Thames & Hudson Ltd (November 1985) ISBN 0500278466
Further exploration of ideas discussed in Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things - William McDonough, Michael Braungart, Rodale Books (April 2002) ISBN 0865475873
An exploration of closed loop living (which practices as it preaches, being manufactured from a recyclable polymer).
Massive Change: A Manifesto for the Future Global Design Culture - Bruce Mau, Phaidon Press (October 2004) ISBN 0714844012
An investigation into how design can be used to combat a variety of issues which are affecting the environment and the human race.
The Eco-Design Handbook: A Complete Sourcebook for the Home and Office - Alastair Fuad-Luke, Thames & Hudson (March 2005) ISBN 0500285217
A recently updated source book with all things ECO from household items to raw materials.
The Total Beauty of Sustainable Products, Edwin Datschefski, Rotovision (July 2001) ISBN 2880465451
A quantified look at a variety of sustainable products.
Biomimicry - Janine M. Benyus, Harper Collins (September 2002) ISBN 0060533226
Design inspiration from nature.
General resource
the global : ideas : book - social inventions to inspire and inform
Edited and compiled by Nick Temple, Jack Darach, Vivienne Rösch, The Institute for Social Inventions (September 2004) ISBN 0 948826 63 0