Sustainability: A History by 
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution’s 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature’s best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Cause and Effect: Visualizing Sustainability by Cause and Effect is a collection of work from around the world that reveals a credible and understandable contemporary visual language for communicating ecology. Its spectrum ranges from campaigns, posters, brochures, and digital media to interventions and guerrilla marketing. It utilizes graphic design, information graphics, and illustrations as well as photography to get its message across.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by "Reduce, reuse, recycle" urge environmentalists; in other words, do more with less in order to minimize damage. As William McDonough and Michael Braungart argue in their provocative, visionary book, however, this approach perpetuates a one-way, "cradle to grave" manufacturing model that dates to the Industrial Revolution and casts off as much as 90 percent of the materials it uses as waste, much of it toxic.
The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability by The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability ... explores the basic principles, concepts, and practice of sustainable design in a visually sophisticated and engaging style. The book tackles not only the ecological aspects of sustainable design-designers' choice of materials and manufacturing processes have a tremendous impact on the natural world-but also the economic and cultural elements involved.
Nature: Collaborations in Design by 
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by 
Sustainability: A History by Caradonna's book broadens our understanding of what "sustainability" means, revealing how it progressed from a relatively marginal concept to an ideal that shapes everything from individual lifestyles, government and corporate strategies, and even national and international policy.
Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture by The developed world, increasingly aware of "inconvenient truths" about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies - eco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually do more harm than good, says John Ehrenfeld, a pioneer in the field of industrial ecology,
Sustainability Principles and Practices by Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability. The focus is on furnishing solutions and equipping the student with both conceptual understanding and technical skills for the workplace.
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability, Designing for Abundance by In this follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, the authors draw on the lessons gained from ten years of putting the Cradle to Cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people and envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: we don't just use or reuse resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve the world as we live, create, and build.
Green Design, 2 vols. by Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing different aspects of environmentally friendly and sustainable design. This book presents around 100 products that are not only Green, but also Design: beautiful and functional everyday objects that qualify through certain principles of environmental sustainability.
Product Design in the Sustainable Era by Featuring reusable products from water bottles and diapers to solar- and wind-powered goods; clocks that run by reacting with soil; air and water purifiers; coffins and urns for sustainable funerals; paper made from elephant and sheep dung--as well as eco-friendly chocolates, bikinis, guitars, energy efficient appliances and much more--this is a state-of-the-art update on the sustainable revolution in product design.
Design for a Living World by Once merely conservationists' favorite buzzword, 'sustainability' has become the mandate of our times, and designers have taken up the challenge with a dizzying range of innovative forms and materials. 'Design for a Living World' is the companion book to a major touring exhibition that had its debut in spring 2009 at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World by Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped.
Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change by This fully revised edition of Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change provides unique insights into how we can protect our buildings, cities, infra-structures and lifestyles against risks associated with extreme weather and related social, economic and energy events.
Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth by Although architecture and design have long been seen as engines for consumerism and growth, increasing numbers of designers are concerned about the problems resulting from growth. But designers face a paradox of their own; in scenarios of sustainable consumption, where people consume or build significantly less, what will be left for designers to do?
Big and Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century by The book examines more than 40 of the most important recent sustainable skyscrapers-including Fox & Fowle's Reuters Buildings in New York, Norman Foster's Commerzbank in Frankfurt, and MVRDV's spectacular Dutch Pavilion from Expo 2000 in Hanover.
Biomimicry in Architecture by Aimed at architects, urban designers and product designers, this text looks to the natural world to seek clues as to how we can achieve radical increases in resource efficiency. It contains inspiring case studies predicting future trends.
Design with Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism by First published in 1963, Design with Climate was a groundbreaking book in the field of environmentally responsible design and remains an important reference for practitioners, teachers, and students over fifty years later.
Ecohouse: A Design Guide by Sue Roaf is famed for her approach to design and her awareness of energy efficiency. Here she reveals the concepts, structures and techniques that lie behind the realisation of her ideals.
Ecotopia 2121: a vision for our future green utopia-in 100 cities by 
Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation by This book coincides with the "Hot to Cold" exhibition at the National Building Museum and presents 60 case studies in harsh climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet.
Julia Watson. lo--TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism by 
Urgent Architecture: 40 Sustainable Housing Solutions for a Changing World by Bridgette Meinhold showcases 40 successful emergency and long-term housing projects - from repurposed shipping containers to sandbag homes. She surveys successful structures as well as highlighting promising projects that are still being developed. Every one is quickly deployable, affordable, and sustainable.
Vitamin Green by Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability.
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Alabama Studio Style by In Alabama Studio Style, Natalie Chanin, founder and creative director of the acclaimed fashion and lifestyle company Alabama Chanin, takes readers on a compelling journey of creativity, technique, and inspiration. Picking up where the celebrated Alabama Stitch Book left off, Alabama Studio Style is a craft and lifestyle book all in one.
The Conscious Closet by 
Eco-Chic by In a comprehensive survey of this highly pertinent subject, leading academic Sandy Black examines the way the fashion industry is changing to accommodate the environmental concerns of the twenty first century. She exposes the naked truth behind the clothes we wear, exploring alternate practices and assessing their feasibility.
Eco Fashion by This book looks at one of the strongest trends in fashion, towards the production of desirable and well-designed apparel and accessories with a conscience. Eco Fashion shows the range of sustainable and ethical products available around the globe and explains the stories behind them, as well as showing how and where they make a difference.
Fashioned from Nature: by 
Fashionopolis: the price of fast fashion--and the future of clothes by 
Future Fashion by A collection of essays by a diverse and international group of contributors. Designers, manufacturers, farmers, professors, models, business owners, and creative directors add their experiences and wisdom, producing a unique and multifaceted view of the apparel and textile industries.
The Future of Fashion by 
Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion by 
Over - Dressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by 
Scraps: fashion, textiles, and creative reuse by 
Shaping Sustainable Fashion by The production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability.
Sustainability and Social Change in Fashion by 
Sustainable Fashion - Why Now? by Through a collection of essays, Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they create, wear, and recycle clothing and fashion. Through a lively range of perspectives, the contributors discuss new ideas for producing fashion with organic or renewable resources using socially responsible manufacturing techniques.
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles by Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about life-cycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation.
Wear No Evil: How to Change the World with Your Wardrobe by
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