Featured Books & eBooks - Product Design & Life Cycle(s)
Designing for the Circular Economy by Call Number: TS171.4 .D492ISBN: 9781138081017Publication Date: 2018The circular economy describes a world in which reuse through repair, reconditioning and refurbishment is the prevailing social and economic model. The business opportunities are huge but developing product and service offerings and achieving competitive advantage means rethinking business models from early creativity and design processes to marketing, pricing and supply. This text highlights state-of-the-art research and a comprehensive overview of issues related to product circularity.
Circular Economy Handbook for Business and Supply Chains: Repair, Remake, Redesign, Rethink by Call Number: HD9975.A2 W37ISBN: 9780749476755Publication Date: 2016Whilst growing global consumption presents fantastic business opportunities, our current linear systems (take some materials, make a product, use it and then throw it away) are not fit for this purpose. The circular economy addresses this problem by decoupling resources from consumption. This text uses real examples across a range of market sectors to help businesses, students and policymakers understand the theory and fast-developing practice of the circular economy.
Designing Sustainability: Making Radical Changes in a Material World by Call Number: TS171.4 .W349ISBN: 9781317753186Publication Date: 2014What is the relationship between design, sustainability, inner values and spirituality? How can we create designs that provide a convincing alternative to unsustainable interpretations of progress, growth, consumerism and commercialism? Building on the arguments first advanced in his widely acclaimed books Sustainable by Design and The Spirit of Design, Stuart Walker explains how we can achieve the systemic changes needed to address the challenges of sustainability.
The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance by Call Number: TD794.5 .M39524ISBN: 9780865477483Publication Date: 2013Drawing on the green living lessons gained from 10 years of putting the cradle-to-cradle concept into practice with businesses, governments, and ordinary people, William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: Instead of protecting the planet from human impact, why not redesign our activity to improve the environment?
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Call Number: TD794.5 .M395ISBN: 9780865475878Publication Date: 2002With this provocative, visionary book, authors William McDonough and Michael Braungart challenge the notion that human industry must inevitably damage the natural world. Rather than design for our current “cradle to grave” manufacturing model, which casts off as much as 90% of its materials as waste, they envision a future where products that reach the end of their useful lives may simply be broken down into their “technical nutrients” to seed their next lives as new and better products.
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Walker, Stuart. Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory & Practice. (2006) - TS170.5 .W45
Web Resources
Security & Sustainability Forum. Status of the Circular Economy. (2016)
Security & Sustainability Forum. Food Waste and the Circular Economy. (2016)
Integrated Waste Management: A Sustainable Approach by ISBN: 9781632399571Publication Date: 2018Whether it be household waste, municipal waste, sewage sludge, or hazardous chemicals, mitigation and management are a primary concern for the present era. This reader provides a vital tool for anyone studying integrated waste management. Case studies highlight new research, emergent technologies and practical applications.
Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective by Call Number: TD812.5.A48 Z56ISBN: 9781421421865Publication Date: 2017Besides being the right thing to do for Mother Earth, recycling can also make money--particularly when it comes to upcycling, a zero-waste practice where discarded materials are fashioned into goods of greater economic or cultural value. In Upcycling Aluminum, Carl A. Zimring explores how the metal's abundance after World War II--coupled with the significant economic and environmental costs of smelting it from bauxite ore--led to the industrial production of valuable durable goods from salvaged aluminum.
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Call Number: HD9975.A2 M495ISBN: 9781608197934Publication Date: 2015When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment.
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Call Number: TD788 .H86ISBN: 9781583335239Publication Date: 2013A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes readers on a surprising tour of America's biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy: our trash. The average American produces 102 tons of garbage across a lifetime and $50 billion in squandered riches are rolled to the curb each year. But our bins are just the starting point for a strange, impressive, mysterious, and costly journey that may also represent the greatest untapped opportunity of the century.
Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure & Future of Environmental Action in the United States by Call Number: TD794.5 .M285ISBN: 9780262016001Publication Date: 2011Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. In the United States, more people recycle than vote. But, as Samantha MacBride points out in this book, the goals of recycling -- saving the earth (and trees), conserving resources, and greening the economy -- are still far from being realized. Recycling as we know it today generates the illusion of progress while allowing industry to maintain the status quo and place responsibility for their manufacturing decisions on consumers and local government.
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Bily, Cynthia. Garbage & Recycling. (2013) - TD794.5 .G368
Hengeveld, Rob. Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet. (2012) - GF75 .H45
Haerens, Margaret. Garbage & Recycling. (2012) - TD791.G37
Mancini, Candice. Garbage & Recycling. (2011) - TD791.G37
Maczulak, Anne. Waste Treatment: Reducing Global Waste. (2010) - eBook
Young, Mitchell. Garbage & Recycling. (2007) - TD791.G37
Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. (2005) - HD4484.N7 R68
Engler, Mira. Designing America's Waste Landscapes. (2004) - TD788 .E54
Nemerow, Nelson Leonard. Zero Pollution for Industry: Waste Minimization through Industrial Complexes. (1995) - TD897.5 .N46
Radical Matter: Rethinking Materials for a Sustainable Future by Call Number: TS171.4 .F72ISBN: 9780500519622Publication Date: 2018Framing their treatise around eight “Big Ideas,” authors Kate Franklin and Caroline Till unpack the core trends that are most impacting our material world. With a variety of cutting-edge case studies and expert opinions, they demonstrate how holistic systems of design, production and consumption exist today and can benefit our world environmentally, socially and economically.
Green Composites: Waste and Nature-Based Materials for a Sustainable Future (2nd Ed) by Call Number: TA418.9.C6 G7447ISBN: 9780081007839Publication Date: 2017This revised edition presents exciting new developments related to waste-based composites and their applications within industry and the built environment. New content approaches materials engineering in a social context, underscoring both the “what” and “who” of working with waste- and nature-based composites.
Introduction to Bioplastics Engineering by Call Number: TP1180.B55 A68ISBN: 9780323393966Publication Date: 2016While there has been considerable demand for the use of bioplastics in industry, processing these bioplastics is a big challenge. This book provides plastics engineers and researchers with a fundamental, practical understanding of the differences between bioplastics and biodegradable polymers, along with guidance on the different methods used to process bioplastics.
Product Stewardship: Life Cycle Analysis & the Environment by Call Number: HM856 .S45ISBN: 9781482223293Publication Date: 2015Product Stewardship investigates the regulatory and scientific aspects of the life-cycle consequences of bringing a chemical to market. Using case studies to bring critical points to life, this multidisciplinary text explores the factors that influence our risk management decisions. It bridges the academic study of life cycle analysis and the practical concerns of those in industry who produce goods for market within the web of global regulations and under the eye of consumers concerned with sustainability.
Engineering Green Chemical Processes: Renewable & Sustainable Design by Call Number: TP155.2.E58 D47ISBN: 9780071826686Publication Date: 2014Based on data from the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office, this text describes cutting-edge advances in green chemistry, which minimize chemical waste, require minimum energy input, and use renewable materials. Applications covered include a wide array of topics from antibiotics to diesel fuel.
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Seliger, Günther. Advances in Sustainable Manufacturing: Proceedings of the 8th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing. (2011) - eBook
Kalia, Susheel. Celluose Fibers: Bio- & Nano-Polymer Compoistes. (2011) - eBook
Klemeš, Jiří. Sustainability in the Process Industry: Integration & Optimization. (2011) - eBook
Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design & Build a Better Future by Call Number: TA174 .K5284ISBN: 9781250060402Publication Date: 2017In Adapt, Amina Khan presents fascinating examples of how nature effortlessly solves the problems that humans tackle with decades worth of new technologies and money. If a fly's eye can see without hundreds of fancy lenses, and termite mounds can stay cool in the desert without air conditioning, it stands to reason that nature can teach us a thing or two about sustainable technology and innovation.
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature by Call Number: T173.8 .B45ISBN: 9780060533229Publication Date: 2002Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature - taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D to solve our toughest 21st-century problems. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells - and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionizing how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.
