SUSTAINABLE COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Design is the Problem
Author: Nathan Shedroff
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media (available also for download)
ISBN: 1933820004
The Designer’s Atlas Of Sustainability
Author: Ann Thorpe
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597260991
The Eco-Design Handbook
Author: Alastair Fuad-Luke
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500285217
Green Graphic Design
Author: Brian Dougherty & Celery Design Collaborative
Publisher: Allworth Press 2009
ISBN: 1581155115
SustainAble: A Handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients Image
Author: Aaris Sherin
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 1592534015
Packaging Sustainability: Tools, Systems and Strategies for Innovative Package Design
Author: Wendy Jedlicka
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470246693
Design for the Other 90%
Author: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
ISBN: 9780910503976
SUSTAINABILITY – BUSINESS
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Author: William McDonough, Michael Braungart
Publisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 086547587
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage
Author: Daniel Esty, Andrew Winston
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470393742
Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental and Economic Impacts
Author: Marc J Epstein
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576754863
Sustainable Value: How the World’s Leading Companies Are Doing Well by Doing Good
Author: Chris Laszlo
Publisher: Stanford Business Books
ISBN: 0804759634
The Green Marketing Manifesto
Author: John Grant
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0470723246
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Author: Sharon Beder
Publisher: Green Books
ISBN: 1903998093
The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift
Author: Andres R. Edwards
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 0865715319
Fostering Sustainable Behavior
Author: Doug McKenzie-Mohr and William Smith
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 865714061
The Natural Step for Business
Author: Brian Nattrass & Mary Altomare
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 865713847
SUSTAINABILITY – SOCIAL
Do Good Design
Author: David Berman
ISBN: 9780321573209
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change
Author: Victor Papanek
Publisher: Academy Chicago Publishers
ISBN: 0897331532
Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility
Author: Steven Heller (Editor), Veronique Vienne (Editor)
Publisher: Allworth Press
ISBN: 1581152655
Design for Sustainability (Design for Social Responsibility)
Author: Tracy Bhamra, Vicky Lofthouse
Publisher: Ashgate
ISBN: 0566087049
Conscientious Objectives
Author: John Cranmer & Yolanda Zappaterra
Publisher: Rotovision
ISBN: 2880467519
The Design of Dissent
Author: Milton Glaser & Mirko Ilic
Publisher: Rockport
ISBN: 1592531172
SUSTAINABILITY – GENERAL
The Ecology of Commerce
Author: Paul Hawken
ISBN: 887307043
Silent Spring
Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: First Mariner
ISBN: 0618249060
Keeping Our Cool, Canada in a Warming World
Author: Andrew Weaver
Publisher: Viking Canada
ISBN: 9780670068005
The Geography of Hope
Author: Chris Turner
ISBN: 978-0679314660
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Author: Janine M. Benyus
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0060533226
David Suzuki’s Green Guide
Author: David Suzuki, David Boyd
Publisher: Greystone Books
ISBN: 1553652932
Massive Change
Author: Bruce Mau
Publisher: Phaidon
ISBN: 0714844012
Our Ecological Footprint
Author: William Rees & Mathis Wackernagel
Publisher: New Society
ISBN: 1550922513
Cocktail Party Guide to Global Warming
Author: Annette Saliken
ISBN: 9780535470532
Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
Author: Alex Steffen
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 0810970856
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Author: Fred Pearce
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 080708588X
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
The Lorax
Author: Dr. Seuss
ISBN: 394823370
The Fuzzies
Author: Richard Lessor
ISBN: 91359260
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- The definition of sustainable design and sustainable design values and principles for GDC members to follow.
- The GDC National Sustainability Committee is working towards educating and inspiring GDC members by providing samples of sustainable communication design. Share your best practices in design by featuring one of your projects in a case study.
- Links to existing case studies from other design disciplines and associations
- Online resources about sustainability, such as, certifications, case studies, research, blogs, etc.
- Resource books on sustainability as it relates to design, business and even children’s stories.
- MBA Sustainability Curriculum
- In 2001, when iD2 launched its formal environmental policy the company’s logo changed from red to green. Today, they’ve just gone carbon neutral, so perhaps its time to turn their green company logo to... beige?

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