You’re a creative person, yes? You care about the environment, yes? Well, this event is for you! Today more than ever we must rethink the way we design products, distribute, and do business. It challenges us as designers to take a different look at the world around us. Could there be a better way? This environmentally [...]

How can cities help save the future? Alex Steffen shows some cool neighborhood-based green projects that expand our access to things we want and need — while reducing the time we spend in cars.

The Living Principles is pleased to offer a new tool specifically designed to help designers find the paper that best suits their project’s sustainability goals, creative vision and process requirements. The  Environmental Paper Search , dynamically powered by  PaperSpecs, allows users to plug in different variables—everything from brand names to percentages of post-consumer waste and green certifications—to easily find the best paper for the [...]

AIGA Los Angeles and the PMCA present: Sustainable design. Sounds green, but what does in mean to graphic design? Use less paper? Make a banner about trees? Create a community? Use your skills to change a social condition? Confusion still abounds, so let’s get a better understanding of the many ways and forms in which sustainability might [...]

The powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate. Adolescent girls are uniquely capable of raising the standard of living in the developing world. It’s been shown: she will reinvest her income and knowledge back into her family and her community. As an educated mother, an active citizen, an ambitious entrepreneur [...]

Writer/Director Chris Paine’s documentary feature film Who Killed the Electric Car? premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006 before its release by Sony Pictures to critical acclaim in 100 U.S. markets. The film was the third highest-grossing theatrical documentary of 2006 and screened with An Inconvenient Truth in many markets. Currently in wide DVD release, Paine’s film investigates [...]

Innovation is crucial to building sustainable business success. But in our fast-changing world, innovation alone won’t get the job done—it must be integrated into strategy and core business. This is what companies need to do to inspire and mobilize customers, employees, business partners, and other collaborators. Making this happen depends on gathering insights and ideas [...]

We are thrilled to present this forum for individuals like you and leading design organizations around the globe to come together, engage in lively conversation, and collaborate across disciplines and continents to promote a consistent and holistic understanding of sustainability thinking in design. This site is structured to capitalize on the power of an open-source knowledge exchange—we [...]

IxDA-SF, AIGA SF, IDSA-SF and AIA SF have joined forces for bring you a very special evening of engaging speakers and an after party with DJ Party Ben celebrating design for social impact here in the Bay Area. Act Locally, Think Globally This is a free event. 21 and older only please. IxDA-SF, AIGA, IDSASF and AIA SF have come together to bring you a [...]

A Better World By Design is a three-day internationally acclaimed conference that will impel you to make change locally and globally. On October 1-3, 2010 over 500 guests from around the world will gather on the campuses of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design to discuss innovative approaches and solutions to extreme poverty, environmental degradation, [...]

For years, companies and other organizations have used Human-Centered Design to arrive at innovative business solutions. Funded by IDE as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and in collaboration with non-profit groups ICRW and Heifer International, IDEO relied on this approach to improve the lives of communities in Africa, Asia, and [...]

The Small Stuff
If everyone pitches in, it can add up to something big.Post these little reminders around your office.Download PDF

By Oya Demirli Executive Director, The Institute for Sustainable Communication The new Living Principles website provides a valuable set of conceptual tools and community building capabilities for design professionals, but there is still much work to be done when it comes to raising awareness and providing simple examples of how each of us can put the principles of [...]