FIND RESOURCES
We like this book because it lays out clearly - and without preaching - why the fixation toward low-cost production dooms not just product quality but also our quality of life.
By William McDonough and Michael Braungart. In Cradle to Cradle, the authors present a manifesto calling for a new industrial revolution, one that would render both traditional manufacturing and traditional environmentalism obsolete. The authors, an architect and a chemist, want to eliminate the concept of waste altogether, while preserving commerce and allowing for human nature.
By David Pearson. Drawing on his background as an architect specializing in housing, environmental issues, and holistic design, Pearson compiles a collection of "environmentally clean" and "spiritually healthy" buildings from around the world and across the centuries.
By Mark and Sally Bailey.
In this beautiful book, Mark and Sally Bailey uncover the potential of disregarded or abandoned household items, giving them a new lease on life. Advocating pared-down simplicity, they focus on the integrity of materials and their surface quality--chipped paint showing the layers beneath, rough unfinished textures-combined with clean lines, or old materials combined with modern ones.
By Taschen.
By Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne. Alanna Stang and Christopher Hawthorne have traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to find all that is new in the design of sustainable, or "green," homes. The result: more than thirty-five residences in fifteen countries -- and nearly every conceivable natural environment -- designed by a combination of star architects and heretofore unknown practitioners.
Blending common experiences and clever experiments with groundbreaking analysis, Ariely demonstrates how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities. As he explains, our reliance on standard economic theory to design personal, national, and global policies may, in fact, be dangerous.
