10 Emerging technologies to watch

So much is happening what should we pay attention to? Solar Fuel Mobile 3-D Light-trapping Photovoltaics Green Concrete These are the ones I think are interesting. You can view the rest at the original post in Workplace Learning Today.

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The politics of sustainable design

Let’s face it, green design, sustainable design, ecological conscious innovations all of these concepts are highly politicized ideas. It’s inevitable. Every time you have innovative ideas they must enter into the arena to compete with the ideas of folks who’d like to see more of the same. The main reasons? The usual suspects: money and […]

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Making Sustainable Design a Reality

An interesting blog posting by a civil engineer (Dana Breig Probert),  dealing with the hurdles of developers and other stakeholders in an effort to move towards sustainable design. It’s written for the civil engineering audience but it is still an interesting and relevant posting. This may be a good example of sustainable design beyond products […]

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The Story of Stuff

Annie Leonard, spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where stuff comes from and where it goes within the linear system of industry. She takes into considerations of societies, cultures, governments. She uses flash animation to make her story clear. It’s worth watching. The cycle of stuff explained through flash animations and voice over. Closely […]

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Sustainable Societies Diagram

This is a work-in-progress. (You can click on the image to view it full-size). This may be another example of bottom-up innovation – where the people themselves lead change. Relevant Links: Rainforest Action Network: Sustainable Economies Updates: Added 5/12/08 – Product Usability Weblog: “Design Strategies for Sustainable User Behavior” Related on the Web: 5 Simple […]

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Going Green: the Supply Chain Dependency

Harvard Business Review has an interesting article that begins to expose the wider dependencies involved in implementing green strategies. Here are the highlight points: Design your products with sustainability as a core principal. Refine your goals and put them to paper. Embrace transparency and meaningful metrics. Harvard Business Review: HBR: “You’re Only As Green as […]

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What does experience design have to do with sustainability?

I am glad to see questions like these popping up within my own field of experience design. When we talk about sustainable design we are not only talking about the design of products and services but also the design of all the experiences that are related to sustainable behaviors, attitudes, values etc. Alexa Andrzejewski, over […]

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The Psychology of Everyday (Sustainable?) Things

“According to the logic that if people feel strongly attached to a product, they are more likely to take better care of it and less likely to quickly replace it, it can be assumed that extending the psychological life span of a product could be the most sustainable decision a designer makes. During her doctoral […]

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Sustainable Design Shines with Good Design Awards

“From their site: “The scope of the Good Design Award now transcends mere evaluation of design, and this system is now beginning to play a dynamic role in getting us to think about basic matters such as the lives we should be living and how industry can undergo continuous development.” Sustainable Design Shines with the […]

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Yahoo! Goes Green

Yahoo has a new section called “Yahoo! Green” it has features like a list of actionable items to change the way we consume energy. The feature includes a built-in calculator that helps you calculate how making changes to your life-style can help our environment. It also features gadgets like this handy dandy cranker-upper MP3 player. […]

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