Sustainable design

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By Jill Fehrenbacher As much as I love it, prefab is dead for a while, or at least in hibernation. It thrived when labor was expensive and hard to find; now trades are available and the prefab factories are already closing down. It will also collide with a bigger trend toward localism: support your local plumber an...

By WorldChanging Team There's huge interest in sustainability right now, and it makes perfect sense that every professional group and government should get involved in promoting the issue. The question is whether the interest can move beyond enthusiasm (and mere strategy) to actual delivery and developme...

Parsons The New School for Design as announced the winning entries from its first Sustainable Design Review for 2007. The review asked student participants to define sustainability in their own terms, illustrated by their concept submission. This year's first place winner is Caroline...