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Archive for July, 2009

Paper or Plastic? A Review of Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, by Nathan Shedroff.

This is not a book about environmentalism. It will not tell you to use soy ink and CFLs to make your studio green. This is a book about sustainability, a distinction of utmost importance. This distinction takes us down the road of environmentalism but also brings along it’s siblings social and financial change. These tag-alongs [...]

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Limited Edition Grass Green Field Notes Twitter Contest

It’s Wednesday, still have half the week to go, yup we need some inspiration. Assuming we’re not the only ones, we’re proposing a Twitter contest. Lets put together a huge list of inspirational videos, ones that make you think, wonder, act, get off the couch, whatever. You know how this works, you need to be [...]

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Letter to Our Readers

Lots of changes to the site coming new posting schedule, feature articles, contests, Twitter, etc. So stay tuned, there is lot of design geekiness to come, and hopefully plenty of inspired debate and ideas.

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ReThinking Sustainable Housing

The annual U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is a “competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered house”. Twenty universities from around the world are competing to help determine the future of sustainable housing. Most of the houses meet the second requirement, they run on solar power during the day [...]

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UPDATES!

You might have noticed we moved the furniture around a little yesterday. We’ve replaced the outdated and rarely updated categories with a tagging system that should serve as a more efficient navigation. We’ve also added some book in the left hand nav (review to come soon!). The RSS feeds have also been updated to be [...]

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