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Inhabitat
Online guide to the best green design ideas, innovations and inspiration to build a cleaner, brighter, and better future.
A Sustainable Design Handbook
A sustainability guide for anyone involved in the design and production of physical things.
Sustainability Guide
The Sustainability Guide provides inspiration and knowledge by gathering information, methods and good examples of how to use design to achieve a sustainable and circular business as well as social development.
Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
The institute powers the shift to a circular economy, by setting the global standard for materials, products and systems that positively impact people and the planet.
The Centre for Sustainable Design: CfSD
The CfSD facilitates discussion and research on eco-design and environmental, economic, ethical and social (e3s) considerations in product and service development and design. This is achieved through training and education, research, seminars, workshops, conferences, consultancy, publications and Internet. The Centre also acts as an information clearing house and a focus for innovative thinking on sustainable products and services.
Terreform ONE
Terreform ONE [Open Network Ecology] is a non-profit architecture group that promotes smart design in cities. Through our creative projects and outreach efforts, we aim to illuminate the environmental possibilities of New York City and inspire solutions in areas like it around the world. We are a unique laboratory of specialists with diverse disciplinary backgrounds that explore and advance the larger framework of socio-ecological design.
GreenBlue
GreenBlue is a nonprofit organization that equips business with the science and resources to make products more sustainable. GreenBlue's team of scientists, engineers, designers, and business strategists has decades of experience in sustainability and a proven track record in using that experience for the good of business. We translate complex scientific concepts into concrete business strategies.
o2
The o2 website is a major source of information and inspiration for anybody interested in sustainable design. The Netherlands Design Institute produced it in collaboration with the o2 network. The website supports information and knowledge exchange among designers and entrepreneurs engaged in the development of environmentally sustainable products and services. Its aim is to fill the gap in the information needs of designers and companies.
Sustainable Sites
The Sustainable Sites Initiative is an interdisciplinary effort by the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden to create voluntary national guidelines and performance benchmarks for sustainable land design, construction and maintenance practices.
Environmental Design Research Association
EDRA is an international association of design professionals, researchers, students, and others committed to advancing and disseminating environment design research. EDRA is committed to improving the relationships between people and places, and helping to create places that respond to human needs.
Sustainability by design | Playlist | TED.com
Humans are builders and creators—but how can we build thoughtfully, without waste? These talks explore sustainable design—both past and present—and its beautiful, inspiring results.
MIT Sustainable Design Lab
An inter-disciplinary research group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods.