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Sustainable Design Group Tops 150,000 Members, Adds Forum to Share Ideas

Alissa Walker — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:34:31 -0400

What kind of cardboard is best for compostable packaging? What can we do to encourage consumers to recycle? What kind of testing does the FDA do for materials toxicity? How can I convince my clients that sustainable design can save them money? What does sustainability really mean, anyway?

The Impact of the Designers Accord Movement

Fast Company Staff — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:25 -0400

In less than a year, 100,000 designers and firms from 100 countries and 40 U.S. states have signed on to the Designers Accord.

So have 11 schools with more than 8,000 design students and 9 corporations.

AIGA, a professional association with 22,000 members, has also endorsed it.

Building a Sustainable Design Community

Anya Kamenetz — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:30:23 -0400

"Take the thing that you think everyone would agree on, and turn it around." That's the advice Valerie Casey, green-eyed third child of Irish immigrants, got when writing her first high-school paper, on My Fair Lady. "I actually remember the thesis statement: 'Henry Higgins wished he was a woman.' It was too much! But I remember getting an A on it."