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VentureWell Tools for Design and Sustainability – most of prof. Faludi’s MCAD class on green product design. Includes:
Design for Cradle to Cradle certification short online course for C2CPII.org, requires free registration. If you don’t like registering, some of the videos are on YouTube .
Instructables for choosing greener materials , including PDF charts for choosing greener plastic , wood , metal , and power electronics .
Priorities for sustainable design lecture (one hour long, broken into 6 parts)
Laws & Labels lecture (45 min long, broken into 4 parts; somewhat dated)
Autodesk Sustainability Workshop videos (also included in VentureWell content above):
Business Model Canvas Sustainability Booster by Presidio Graduate School (green business model tool)
Ecodesign for the UN Sustainable Development Goals by UNEP
The Natural Step primer by TNS Canada (my favorite resource for it, but it’s been superseded by the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, FSSD .)
Factor 10 Engineering Principles by Rocky Mountain Institute (systems thinking tool)
12 Leverage Points by Donella Meadows (systems thinking tool)
Ecolizer by OVAM (LCA lookup tables)
Design With Intent by Dan Lockton (persuasive design strategy cards)
Evil by Design by Chris Nodder (persuasive design website & book)
Books