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09.02.10: Ernest Beck
Climate Change Chocolate UpdateUpdate on Climate Change Chocolate and other ideas for offsetting carbon. Originally published August 17, 2009.
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08.23.10: Ernest Beck
SELCO: Case Study Synopsis & Teaching ObjectivesThis case study about SELCO, a solar energy company in India, provides an opportunity to examine the strategy of a business with a social purpose and a heavy reliance on innovative design.
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08.03.10: William Drenttel, Julie Lasky
Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a report on their conversation.
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07.13.10: Phil Patton
Murray T.25 City CarReport on Gordon Murray's conversion from revolutionary race car designer to creator of one of the greenest city cars ever.
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07.07.10: William Underhill
BoatanicIn the Netherlands, designer Damian O'Sullivan conceives of floating greenhouses converted from tourist boats.
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06.02.10: Zara Arshad
How to Green an EmbassyWorking at the British Embassy Beijing with zero budget means that even straightforward solutions, such as implementing a recycling system, pose a challenge.
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05.24.10: Elizabeth Helman Minchilli, Annie Schlechter
Rome Sustainable Food ProjectAlice Waters has been working tirelessly to change the way we eat in America. Four years ago, she sent chef Mona Talbott overseas to reform the kitchens of the American Academy in Rome.
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04.19.10: Jane Margolies
The Laugh BugIs Volkswagen's Fun Theory campaign anything more than a turbocharged marketing stunt?
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04.08.10: Amanda Hurley
Hold Your Sawhorses!Brazilian architecture firm StudioMK27 creates a controversial furniture collection based on the designs of construction workers.
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03.29.10: Azby Brown
Bent by the SunWhat a longtime American-born resident of Japan has learned about his adopted country's ancient practice of sustainability.
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02.03.10: Ernest Beck
The Cotton ClubReport on the complex, and sometimes muddled, standards for certifying organic cotton.
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12.14.09: Jane Margolies
St. Augustine School Chicken ProjectReport on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.
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12.14.09: Eve M. Kahn
Green SleevesReview of “Ethics + Aesthetics = Sustainable Fashion” at Pratt Manhattan Gallery, November 20, 2009 - February 20, 2010.
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12.04.09: Jane Withers
In Praise of ShadowsEssay adapted from "In Praise of Shadows: New European Lighting Design," presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, September 19–October 18, 2009.
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11.16.09: Jonathan Schultz
DESISReport on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.
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11.09.09: Mark Dery
Dawn of the Dead MallMark Dery surveys the landscape of failing malls and speculates about the future means and venues of mass consumption.
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10.14.09: Adam Harrison Levy
O Tannenbaum!People are talking differently about Christmas trees this year. They’re downscaling or simplifying their annual rite.
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08.29.09: Phil Patton
Triple-Digit InflationPhil Patton questions GM's sustainability claims for its Chevrolet Volt electric car.
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08.20.09: Ernest Beck
PACT UnderwearReport on PACT, an underwear company that embraces green manufacturing and donates a portion of its revenue to nonprofits.
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08.04.09: Ernest Beck
Climate Change ChocolateWhile environmentalists debate the ethics and effectiveness of carbon offsets, designers work to make them appealing.
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