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Our speakers recommend:
Websites
- Three Trees Don't Make A Forest
- A catalyst for the creation of a zero carbon design industry.
- Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools
- a review site for tools, gadgets, trends, films and more
- Cradle to Cradle Supporters
- Bringing supporters of the Cradle to Cradle principles together
- Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart
- Professor Dr Michael Braungarts personal website
- EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH
- EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH in Hamburg is a scientific consultancy that focusses on improving product design, quality, utility, and environmental performance via eco-effectiveness.
- MaterialConnexion
- Material ConneXion is the leading global platform for material solutions and innovations
- C2C Community Forum
- MBDC is a product and process design firm dedicated to revolutionizing the design of products and services worldwide
- Hack A Day
- Technological gadgets.
- I like
- Blogspot about things ‘I like’
- MAKE
- Blogspot about making things
- Information Aesthetics
- Weblog explores the symbiotic relationship between creative design and the field of information visualization
- Seed
- online version of the SEED magazine
- Metcheck
- A company supplying meteorological, hydrological and marine instruments
- CUIL
- A new age of search engines
Books
- A Smile In The Mind
- Author: Alan Fletcher
Description: Exploring witty thinking and playful graphic design.
ISBN: 0-7148-3812-8 - Material ConneXion
- Author: George Beylerian and Andrew Dent
Description: A resource of new and innovative materials for designers
ISBN: 10500512442 - Design for the Real World
- Author: Victor Papanek
Description: An early edition to discussing socially responsible design
ISBN: 0500273588 - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
- Author: William McDonough and Michael Braungart
Description: This book explains how products can be designed from the outset so that, after their useful lives, they will provide nourishment for something new
ISBN: 10865475873 - Design with Nature
- Author: Ian V McHarg
Description: Offers a practical blueprint for new, healthier relationship between the built environment and nature
ISBN: 047111460X - Patents, Registered Designs, Trade Marks & Copyright for Dummies
- Author: John Grant, Charlie Ashworth, and Henri J. A. Charmasson
Description: A guide helping creative people to define, protect, develop and benefit from their good ideas
ISBN: 0470519975 - Making Things Talk
- Author: Tom Igoe
Description: Projects and ideas to create talking objects from anything.
ISBN: 0596510519 - Damanhur - The Real Dream
- Author: Jeff Merrifield
Description: The story of an extraordinary Italian artistic and spiritual community
ISBN: 0722534965 - Trail Solutions
- Author: The IMBA
Description: IMBA’s guide to building sweet singletrack
ISBN: 0-9755023-0-1 - The Trailbuilding Handbook
- Author: IMBA-UK
Description: A step by step practical guide to planning and building mountainbike trails
ISBN: N/A - The Freeride Guide
- Author: IMBA
Description: The IMBA guide to building freeride trails, what freeride is and how that changes what you need to take into account when building trails
ISBN: N/A - It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be
- Author: Paul Arden
Description: "It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be" is a handbook of how to succeed in the world - a pocket "bible" for the talented and timid to help make the unthinkable and the impossible possible.
ISBN: 0714843377
Organisations
- igenius
- An online community that seeks to stimulate fresh thinking and bright ideas, and inspire a new generation to become 'social entrepreneurs'
- Welcome Collection
- Wellcome Collection is a unique mix of galleries, events, and meeting, reading and eating places where you can consider what it means to be human.
- Long Now Foundation
- The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years
- Creative Commons
- About copyright
- Architecture for Humanity
- This is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings design services to communities in need
- MechE: Institute of Mechanical Engineers
- Working on engineering in alignment with key event and technological advances in the world
- Royal Society
- Is the independent scientific academy of the UK and the Commonwealth dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
