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.teaching tools for sustainable design
Although I think my own teaching guide for the Atlas has a lot to offer, there are a number of other teaching tools available. I thought it would be useful, as one of the inaugural posts for this blog, to list a few of them. At this stage I’ve dipped into a few of them… Continue Reading
review: lifecycle tools
This article, from August 2009, describes a range of now “classic” LCA tools along with more recent offerings, including attempts to “open source” some aspects of LCA. Lifecycle Assessment is an approach to design that tries to take a product or building’s entire lifecycle into account at the time of conceptual design to try to… Continue Reading
The central debates of sustainable design
As the spring season approaches in colleges, conferences, and exhibitions, sustainable design will be higher on the agenda than ever before. While attending the exhibits and lectures, keep in mind the five central debates of sustainable design: 1 responsibility; 2 pace; 3 appearance; 4 geography; and 5 operability. Who is responsible? Although designers, clients, governments… Continue Reading
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