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2008 DesignIntelligence Sustainable Design Survey
“Creativity, Leadership, and the New Green Standard” is the theme of the 2008 sustainability issue from DesignIntellicence. Our survey tabulates the responses of leaders of the most successful design firms…
Articles
- 03/02/10 Just How Expendable Are Design Professionals? There is power in understanding new knowledge and in making the future your friend. There is satisfaction in confronting the forces that can create an immunity to change. And there is newly born enthusiasm when leaders have a refreshed vision for the future.
- 01/08/10 1 2010: A Year of Convalescence The 25 most significant trends transforming architecture and design can offer sustenance during a painfully slow recovery.
- 12/03/09 It’s The Carbon Economy, Stupid: Clean Energy in the USA What are the likely impact of the passage of the Kerry-Boxer bill?
- 09/04/09 Survival of the Most Sustainable Ensuring the future of existing buildings by giving them a green new lease on life.
- 09/01/09 Zero Carbon Isn’t Really Zero: Why Embodied Carbon in Materials Can’t Be Ignored In the pursuit of zero-carbon buildings by ever-reducing operational emissions and in the anticipation of a price on carbon via cap and trade, embodied carbon is likely to become one of the key metrics to address in whole-life building sustainability
- 07/29/09 Six Professionals Honored as Emerging Sustainability Leaders The Design Futures Council has selected a half-dozen professionals who are having – and will increasingly have – a profound impact on design practices, design professions, and the community
- 07/07/09 Role Models of Sustainability Leadership DesignIntelligence survey: Amory Lovins, Barack Obama among admired sustainability leaders
- 07/07/09 Each Minute Defines Us By changing your use of minutes, you challenge your limiting beliefs — your convention — your thinking and doing.
- 07/07/09 Mitigating Climate Change: What America’s Building Industry Must Do Ambitious 2050 emissions targets cannot be achieved by conservation, refurbishment, and good design alone. Increased use of clean renewable energy will be required to close the gap. The onus is on the building industry to ante up the required intellectual effort and investment.
- 07/07/09 Staking a Claim Our ability to create design solutions in response to economic, environmental, and social crises requires a necessary paradigm shift. Start by involving clients in design workshops that make the process of design observable and the value of design apparent.
