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| Solar Power in Building Design |
| Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing, implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. From basic theory through project planning, cost estimating, and manufacturing methods, this vital resource offers you everything needed for solar power design success. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071485635/ - 11k
- 17 Apr 2008 - Details
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| Green Design |
| A fuel cell powered backpack and clothes made from sonic fabric are just two of the innovative ideas included in Green Design. By examining how companies such as American Apparel and Lego have been able to understand their places in the business world as places in the physical world, Green Design shows how designers and companies that take progressive, creative approaches to products and product marketing can satisfy bottom lines as they maintain environmental and social values. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0976224585/ - 11k
- 02 Nov 2006 - Details
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| Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys |
| Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slow fashion and participatory design, as well as knowledge of materials. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844074811/ - 11k
- 25 Jan 2008 - Details
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| Sustainable by Design |
| Sustainable by Design offers a compelling and innovative, design- centred approach that explores both the meaning and practice of sustainable design. Walker explores the design process in the context of sustainability, and challenges conventional ways of defining, designing and producing functional objects. He discusses the personal design process, tacit knowledge, ephemeral design, experimental design, and therelationship between intellectual design criteria, physical expression and aesthetic experience. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184407353X/ - 13k
- 12 Oct 2006 - Details
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| The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability |
| The Designer's Atlas of Sustainability now 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. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1597261009/ - 14k
- 20 Jul 2007 - Details
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| Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management: Cradle-to-Cradle for Sustainable Development |
| Sustainable Industrial Design and Waste Management is the only book which provides an integrated approach for sustainable development including tools, methodology, and indicators for sustainable development. It reveals innovative technologies for the conservation of natural resources and contains numerous case studies that allow the reader to adapt concepts according to personal interest/field. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0123736234/ - 11k
- 23 Sep 2007 - Details
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| Green Roof: A Case Study |
| In Green Roof Gardens, author Christian Werthmann explains the history, methodology, and design process of green roof garden construction, providing a rich source of inspiration and technical knowledge in the process for anybody interested in this simple solution to many of the environmental challenges we face today. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568986858/ - 13k
- 22 Sep 2007 - Details
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| High-Performance Building |
| High-Performance Building gives architects a practical guide to excellent, sustainable design, showing how to analyze and evaluate the buildings "as built." Taking a hands-on view of sustainability, the author provides designers with specific benchmarks for high performance and energy efficiency. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471775355/ - 12k
- 22 Sep 2007 - Details
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| Sustainable Living: The Role of Whole Life Costs and Values |
| This book shows how the choices designers, developers and building users make impact on sustainability over the life span of the building. The authors show how a holistic approach considering costs, energy use, environmental impact, global warming potential as well as items which a usually disregarded such as finishes, furniture and appliances is needed to achieve best practice. |
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0750680636/ - 8k
- 21 Nov 2007 - Details
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