Carbon Footprints – The Dramatic Short Film

by Mario Vellandi on March 3, 2010

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Neat short film I found from Germany that discusses carbon footprints. The original description says, “One of the three winners of the Germanwatch screenplay competition about Climate Justice. In this four-minute movie produced by Peter Wedel the CO2 intensive lifestyle of an urban dweller (played by Benno Fürmann) is put in contrast to the people in developing countries which are affected most by Climate Change. Further information on this topic: www.germanwatch.org”

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Methods & Practices Guide from Stanford Design School

by Mario Vellandi on February 2, 2010

As quoted from their blog:

The Bootcamp Bootleg is intended for people who’ve already had an introduction to design thinking, but who need some refreshers as they head out to tackle real-world challenges. The teaching team curated the collection by leveraging the work of many predecessors, drawing from material developed by d.school teaching teams and folks throughout the design world over the last five years.

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hat tip to designsojourn

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Nokia Bejing Storytells its Sustainability

January 26, 2010

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From the Nokia Conversations blog, comes this great piece of creative that tells the company’s sustainability story in Beijing. The film style has a journalistic feel to it; for some reason to me, reminiscent of the BBC. If Nokia were to make similar videos throughout its global operations, it […]

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Renault’s Responsible and Electric Ad Spot

January 19, 2010

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From French automaker Renault comes this great piece of creative that goes through what cars have provided us over time, asks some social critical questions, then elaborates on the values of the company before gently introducing its upcoming range of electric vehicles.
What I love is how they (or rather the agency […]

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11 Product Design Strategies for this Decade

January 18, 2010

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From my Singaporean pal Brian Ling over at Design Sojourn, comes a set of design strategies he put together for a presentation. While there are some familiar themes regarding customization, usability, crowdsourcing, and designing to communicate an idea, there are also a few notable ones including Haptic Relationships or “high-touch electronics”. […]

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Sustainability & CSR Career Skillsets & Competencies

January 6, 2010

I found this chart by Ethical Corporation to be an interesting segmentation of disciplines in sustainability and CSR

Now although individuals obviously specialize in specific areas, there’s two job types that need an exposure to and basic knowledge of all: chief officers and communications professionals.
via Perrine Bouhana

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Designing Viral Web Applications, by Christina Wodtke

January 1, 2010

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Christina Wodtke speaks at Interaction 09 on defaults, sharing mechanisms, updates, notifications and even SEO as holistic elements of a viral system that is currently driving the popularity of social networks and social media successes everywhere. Over the last three years she’s been working on understanding social collaborative behavior […]

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Design and Management Education, by Roger Martin

December 30, 2009

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Some interesting ideas by Roger Martin here on how management education can be improved. First he mentions in his assessment of the MBA that most programs tend to be very shallow versus deep. Students are taught a variety of models, theories, and approaches but what remains unexperienced is the […]

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins

December 29, 2009

Normally I stay away from stories about politics and business. It’s just not my thing to delve into speculation about collusion and conspiracy. So when I  had picked up John Perkins book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, it was under my impression that I’d delve into some wild ride on corporate espionage, theft, bribery, […]

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The Carbon Economy, by Xplane

December 13, 2009

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Produced by Xplane for an Economist magazine conference in November, this video brings together a variety of facts and figures around climate change using animation and music, in what I can only call a creative confluence of hope and a subtle call to action.
- via Cool Infographics

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Opportunities in Sustainable Innovation with Gil Friend

December 12, 2009

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Full 85min Video Available On Demand - “Sustainability” isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s a powerful source of business value, an organizing principle for strategy, and a remarkable driver of innovation at every level of the enterprise. And it’s all about design — of products and services, value propositions […]

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Biomimicry Explained with Janine Benyus

December 11, 2009

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Janine Benyus, author of the book “Biomimicry”, speaks extensively about the topic in this great presentation.

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In the Bubble, by John Thackara

December 7, 2009

Earlier this year I bought myself a copy of John Thackara’s “In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World”, to get a glimpse of what this designer/futurist had to say about sustainability and society. While published in 2005, the content didn’t seem a bit dated as some business and trend books usually do. In many […]

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Humanity Now Demanding 1.5 Earths

December 3, 2009

From the Global Footprint Network comes this info from their latest newsletter:
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One the eve of the Copenhagen climate conference, Global Footprint Network is releasing data today that reveals a widening gap between human demand on ecological services and what nature is able to produce. It would now take nearly one and a half Earths to […]

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Carbon Fighters Take It to the Workplace

November 30, 2009

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Neat integrated campaign apparently from TBWA France, that uses creative art to bring about awareness of carbon footprints while asking people to cut back on certain activities. Started earlier this year, the campaign was supposedly spread around to other French offices, but doesn’t seem to have been taken up […]

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