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Sustainable Design Books
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,463 ratings — published 2002
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,557 ratings — published 1997
Hard Hat Hank and the Sky-High Solution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 87 ratings — published 2025
Design for Sustainable Change: How Design and Designers Can Drive the Sustainability Agenda (Required Reading Range, 38)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 2011
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability--Designing for Abundance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,219 ratings — published 2013
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,018 ratings — published 2009
Emotionally Durable Design: Objects, Experiences and Empathy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 91 ratings — published 1995
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,625 ratings — published 1961
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,875 ratings — published 1999
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,746 ratings — published 1972
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,692 ratings — published 2006
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,720 ratings — published 1988
Ecological Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.94 — 141 ratings — published 1995
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.51 — 166,476 ratings — published 2013
Building with Lime: A practical introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 10 ratings — published 1998
A Timber Framer's Workshop: Joinery & Design Essentials for Building Traditional Timber Frames (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 56 ratings — published 1998
The Art of the Stonemason (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 54 ratings — published 1992
Bio Design: Nature + Science + Creativity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 88 ratings — published 2012
The Compass and the Nail: How the Patagonia Model of Loyalty Can Save Your Business, and Might Just Save the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.84 — 69 ratings — published 2015
City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.86 — 106 ratings — published 1994
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,386 ratings — published 1977
Hydraulic Lime Mortar for Stone, Brick and Block Masonry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2003
How Structures Work: Design and Behaviour from Bridges to Buildings (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 2009
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,623 ratings — published 1978
Tadelakt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published
Essential Hempcrete Construction: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, 1)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 16 ratings — published 2016
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,856 ratings — published 1994
The Air Well: Free water from the atmosphere (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2015
The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.68 — 774 ratings — published 2010
Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.60 — 181 ratings — published
Architecture: Choice or Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 57 ratings — published 1998
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.74 — 10,994 ratings — published 2009
The Lazy Farmer: The Art of Sustainable Food Production for the Cheap and Lazy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Sustainable Manufacturing: Challenges, Solutions and Implementation Perspectives (Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 6 ratings — published
Handbook of Sustainable Textile Production (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles 124)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.17 — 433 ratings — published 2014
Coffee: Growing, Processing, Sustainable Production (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.59 — 34 ratings — published 2004
Accelerate This!: A Super Not Boring Guide To Startup Accelerators And Clean Energy Entrepreneurship (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.22 — 23 ratings — published
Nature's Wild Ideas: How the Natural World Is Inspiring Scientific Innovation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.03 — 185 ratings — published 2022
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 826 ratings — published
Hungry For Disruption: How Tech Innovations Will Nourish 10 Billion By 2050 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 29 ratings — published
Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (Mit Press)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 496 ratings — published 2018
Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 192 ratings — published 2017
Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 2,309 ratings — published 2015
Gyre: The Plastic Ocean (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 2014
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.90 — 47,236 ratings — published 2011
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,326 ratings — published 2006
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,792 ratings — published 2000
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 4.50 — 8,763 ratings — published 2020
Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic: The Material Politics of Plastic (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as sustainable-design)
avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 2013
“WHICH TOMORROW ARE WE SPOILING TODAY?
ARE WE INVENTING SOMETHING TODAY THAT WE WOULD REGRET TOMORROW?”
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ARE WE INVENTING SOMETHING TODAY THAT WE WOULD REGRET TOMORROW?”
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“Fashion in Africa has always been Sustainable for decades. We just didn’t use the catchy buzzwords”
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