Wednesday, October 21, 2009
New LUNAR Elements blog
The LUNAR Elements blog has moved! To read more Elements blog posts, please visit us here.
Thanks!
-LUNAR Elements Team
Thanks!
-LUNAR Elements Team
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Designer's Field Guide to Sustainability
The LUNAR Elements team has recently published "The Designer's Field Guide to Sustainability", a tool designed to help all designers and engineers, no matter what their level of experience, design more sustainable products.
A quick note about the guide: None of these tips is a turn-key solution. They are very complex issues that often warrant added thought and discussion. Together, they provide a good start, and can help form a checklist of considerations to take along the design path to ensure that no sustainable opportunity has fallen through the cracks. Reviewed often, they can help us to make sustainability a fundamental part of our design and engineering processes.
Feel free to post thoughts, examples, criticisms or advice. All input will be collected and considered when LUNAR publishes version 2.0.
Enjoy.
Click here to download "The Designer's Field Guide to Sustainability"
A quick note about the guide: None of these tips is a turn-key solution. They are very complex issues that often warrant added thought and discussion. Together, they provide a good start, and can help form a checklist of considerations to take along the design path to ensure that no sustainable opportunity has fallen through the cracks. Reviewed often, they can help us to make sustainability a fundamental part of our design and engineering processes.
Feel free to post thoughts, examples, criticisms or advice. All input will be collected and considered when LUNAR publishes version 2.0.
Enjoy.
Click here to download "The Designer's Field Guide to Sustainability"
Monday, July 14, 2008
365 Ways
I recently received a book called "365 Ways to Save the Earth" by Philippe Bourseiller. It's full of tips that are easy enough to implement, but that most of us never think to do. I started sending a tip a day from the book to the entire office. After the first five or six tips, I started writing them on my own. I think that while some of these tips are obvious, they're good for everyone to know. Please do them if you can.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE ONGOING LUNAR INSPIRATION SERIES "365 WAYS"
CLICK HERE TO READ THE ONGOING LUNAR INSPIRATION SERIES "365 WAYS"
Monday, June 16, 2008
Manufactured Landscapes
Hi Everyone,
Some of you have seen this movie, but if you haven’t it’s worth checking out. I struggled for a while with our involvement in these processes, but as the movie goes along its pretty clear that EVERYONE is involved. After seeing this movie it’s pretty clear our current state is far from sustainable.
European LCA: Eco-Indicator
Checking one of the IDSA documents I ran into this:
“…International LCA evaluation standards are urgently needed.
http://www.pre.nl/download/default.htm
'Ready for Liftoff...'
Monday, June 9, 2008
"Aligned for Sustainable Design..."
here is an IDEO tool for talking to business about green stuff…
http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/resource/design/sustainable_design_an_a_b_c_d_approach
http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/content/resource/design/sustainable_design_an_a_b_c_d_approach
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