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Video Introduction to Sustainable Design

Video Introduction to Sustainable Design

The sustainable design website ESPDesign.org has posted a video presentation online entitled “Sustainable Design: Reality or Dream”. The presentation originally given by ESP creator Tom Greenwood to design and engineering Masters students at Aston University, has been condensed for online viewing. It covers the key introductory principles of sustainable design and asks why there are [...]

Sustain – Sustainable Design Showcase

Sustain – Sustainable Design Showcase

Over 40,000 visitors went to the Royal College of Art to view their Summer Show, which closed last week. Now you have the opportunity to view some of the remarkable work being generated by students at the College, as they launch an environmentally themed online exhibition, Sustain. Here’s a snippet from the RCA website: Crucially, [...]

What Is Sustainable Design?

What Is Sustainable Design?

I thought it would be appropriate to open up the new O2UK website by discussing sustainable design itself. What exactly is it? There are many definitions as well as many different names (eco-design, green design, design for environment, ethical design etc), encompassing a range of environmental, social and financial issues. However, sustainable design is generally [...]

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