Online Media

• VentureWell Tools for Design and Sustainability – most of prof. Faludi’s MCAD class on green product design.  Includes:
  • Whole System Mapping design method
  • Measuring sustainability, including life cycle assessment (LCA), EPEAT certification, and Cradle to Cradle certification
  • Materials selection
  • Lightweighting
  • Design for Lifetime and Sharing
  • Energy effectiveness
  • Changing lifestyles (persuasive design)
  • How to integrate into existing classes
• 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):
  • Whole System Mapping design method (1 video)
  • Energy effectiveness (4 videos)
  • Lightweighting (4 videos)
  • Design for lifetime (repair / recycling / long life) (4 videos)
  • Material selection (3 videos)
  • Persuasive design (3 videos)
  • Green building basics (4 videos)
  • LCA primer (PDF)
• 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• The Natural Step primer by TNS Canada (my favorite resource for it, but it’s been superseded by the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development, FSSD.)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

• Design + Environment by Helen Lewis & John Gertsakis
• Okala Practitioner by Philip White, Louise St Pierre, Steve Belletire
• Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough, Michael Braungart
• Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
• Biomimicry by Janine Benyus
• The Green Imperative by Victor Papanek
• Worldchanging: A User’s Guide to the 21st Century, edited by Alex Steffen.
• Packaging Sustainability by Wendy Jedlicka