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| Up-Cycle | | Up-Cycle! features more than 100 up-cycled solutions to design scenarios of every type which completely reinvent a wide array of materials and re-channel their basic qualities into inspired new projects from furniture to outdoor installations to clothing. Projects featured include Australian design studio Lightly's interception of used car tires that turns the tires into lounge chair furniture by crocheting around them in unique and colorful nylon patterns; a reinvention of discarded glass vases, jugs, bowls, and mugs into sculptural chandeliers by Utrecht-based designers Atelier Remy and Veenhuizen; Israeli-based Reddish Studio's reinvention of discarded chair, stool, and table legs into the base of new desk lamps, and Miami artist Agustina Woodgate's animal skin rugs which focus on abstracted colors and patterns hand-sewn out of disassembled, pre-loved stuffed animal toys. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1584234687
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| Industry of Nature | | Created in co-operation with the French material library materiO, Industry of Nature: Another Approach to Ecology is a book on mimicking nature to create sustainable designs. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9077174486
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| The Sustainable Sites Handbook | | The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITESTM) is transforming land design, development, and management practices across the United States with the first national rating system for sustainable landscapes. The Sustainable Sites Handbook features comprehensive and detailed information on principles, strategies, technologies, tools, and best practices for sustainable site design. Contributors to this book are some of the same experts that carefully shaped the SITES rating tool, ensuring thorough coverage of the broad range of topics related to sustainable site design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0470643552
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| Sustainable Renovation | | This forward-looking and insightful guide explores how the sustainable renovation of existing buildings presents great opportunities for initiating extensive changes in the performance of the built environment. Great examples of existing building upgrades are examined, illustrating how to do sustainable renovations, along with current design approaches for radically improving the functionality of existing prewar, postwar, and late modern buildings. Sustainable Renovation saves its key focus for institutional and commercial buildings, but discusses the challenges they pose within a global scope that encompasses all building practices. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0470872616
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| Eco-Urban Design | | Eco-Urban Design focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems. This book endeavours to tell the positive side of the story by featuring considered design solutions provided by the world's most innovative architects and engineers. | astore.amazon.com/detail/9400703686
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| Sustainable Design for Interior Environments | | Sustainable Design for Interior Environments builds on the first edition s premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of people and the environment. The text equips professors, students and practitioners to design sustainable interiors by addressing LEED certification, environmental concerns, ecosystems, ethics, values, worldviews and the ways in which science and technology can be used to address environmental challenges. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1609010817
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| Sew Eco | | Sew Eco is a unique how-to book which guides a whole new generation of savvy crafters in making beautiful wardrobe and home furnishing creations from unusual eco-friendly recycled or vintage fabrics. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1408102846
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| Material Change | | Material Change is the story of architect and entrepreneur Eve Blossom, who built her design business, Lulan Artisans, on a framework of ecological, economic and social sustainability. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1935202456
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| The Little Book of Shocking Eco Facts | | The Little Book of Shocking Eco Facts combines up-to-the-minute data about today's most urgent ecological issues, sourced and compiled by two highly respected geographers, Mark Crundwell and Cameron Dunn, with outstanding graphic imagery created by the award-winning Barnbrook Design studio. This revelatory book enumerates the most important issues facing our natural world by delivering information gleaned from the world's most authoritative sources with visually arresting imagery that will shock and inspire the reader. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1906863121
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| Urban Green: Architecture for the Future | | Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. | astore.amazon.com/detail/023010763X
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| Green Graphics | | In a world of extremes and overly simplified messages, it can be difficult to transmit information about ecology, with its complex discourses that are often unattractive to consumers. Green Graphics is a compilation of various graphic communication designed to promote a more sustainable lifestyle and warn about the risks of pollution, the loss of biodiversity, the dangers of climate change, etc. | astore.amazon.com/detail/8492643544
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| New Directions in Sustainable Design | | Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach. More often than not these books fail to introduce readers to the larger challenge of what thinking sustainably might entail. Combining a series of well know authors in contemporary philosophy with established practitioners of sustainable design, this book develops a coherent theoretical framework for how theories of sustainability might engage with the growing practice of design. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0415780365
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| New Natural Home | | New Natural Home features inspirational houses from around the world. This carefully considered publication provides the design inspiration to build and live in domestic spaces in a balanced, natural, sustainable way. The book includes case studies and plans, a directory of architects, and a listing of featured houses, materials, and useful products. | astore.amazon.com/detail/0500515611
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| The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture | | Lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, drawings, floor and aerial plans, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Green Architecture features today's most noteworthy environmentally-friendly architectural projects. | astore.amazon.com/detail/006200462X
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| Sustainism is the New Modernism | | Michiel Schwarz and Joost Elffers' Sustainism is the New Modernism declares the dawn of a new cultural era, as we transition from modernity to sustainity - towards a world that is more connected, more localist, more digital and more sustainable. | astore.amazon.com/detail/1935202227
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