Sustainability Science Website Links
Sustainability Science
Sustainable development, sustainability science and sustainability metrics are complex interdisciplinary topics. Sustainability science provides a critical framework for evaluating sustainability while sustainability measurement provides the evidence-based quantitative data needed to guide sustainability governance. The evolving metrics used for the measurement of sustainability (involving the sustainability of environmental, social and economic domains) include indicators, benchmarks, audits, indexes and accounting, and assessment methods. Sustainability metrics are applied over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
For designers and our employers, there is a temptation to over-use or misuse the term “sustainable” to be synonymous with renewable, low toxicity and or environmentally friendly. Of course, these are characteristics of the ecological performance of sustainable materials and processes. But, in addition to being ecologically friendly, a sustainable material, process or product must also be produced in an economically viable and socially equitable way. The design professions serve the public by using the language accurately, and cautiously exploring sustainability research.
http://www.sa-intl.org/
Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global, multi-stakeholder, standards setting organization that advances the human rights of workers around the world. SAI established the SA8000 social standard.
http://www.accountability.org/
AccountAbility is an international organization addressing critical challenges in corporate responsibility and sustainable development.
http://sspp.proquest.com/
Sustainabuility: Science, Practice and Policy is an e-journal for sustainable solutions.
http://sustainabilityscience.org/index.html
Sustainability Science provides a forum for discussing individual initiatives in the innovation process.
http://sapiens.revues.org/
Sapiens is a journal on sustainability.
http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/
Consilience is a thoughtful quarterly journal for sustainable development.
http://www.d4s-de.org
Design for Sustainability explains why it’s important with linking to reference information.
http://sustainabilityscience.org/document.html
The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development outlines the burgeoning field. It focuses on ways in which science and innovation can be conducted and applied to meet human needs while preserving the life support systems of the planet.
http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_Sustainable_Design_Report_0508.pdf
The Sustainable Design Report describes how to re-think the questions that designers ask when developing a product.
http://inhabitat.com
The Inhabitat blog explores the future of design and promotes eco-friendly, multipurpose, modular, and interactive systems.
http://www.treehugger.com
TreeHugger is a comprehensive site with updated green news, solutions, and product information regularly featuring prominent designers.
http://www.ecogeek.org/
EcoGeek believes technology and nature can coexist and devotes its pages to report new technologies.
www.scimaps.org
Scimaps identifies relevant scientific forums organized geographically and thematically.
www.popsci.com
Covering the full spectrum of the latest scientific discoveries, Popular Science provides coverage on the newest in real and proposed sustainability science.
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=127
The International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing (IJSM) covers the biocomplexity of the environment and its associated technological challenges facing the needs of the society for economic growth and prosperity as applied to design and manufacturing of discrete products.
http://www2.aashe.org/dans/about.php
The Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability is an informal network of professional associations, sponsored by the US Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable development, sustainability science and sustainability metrics are complex interdisciplinary topics. Sustainability science provides a critical framework for evaluating sustainability while sustainability measurement provides the evidence-based quantitative data needed to guide sustainability governance. The evolving metrics used for the measurement of sustainability (involving the sustainability of environmental, social and economic domains) include indicators, benchmarks, audits, indexes and accounting, and assessment methods. Sustainability metrics are applied over a wide range of spatial and temporal scales.
For designers and our employers, there is a temptation to over-use or misuse the term “sustainable” to be synonymous with renewable, low toxicity and or environmentally friendly. Of course, these are characteristics of the ecological performance of sustainable materials and processes. But, in addition to being ecologically friendly, a sustainable material, process or product must also be produced in an economically viable and socially equitable way. The design professions serve the public by using the language accurately, and cautiously exploring sustainability research.
http://www.sa-intl.org/
Social Accountability International (SAI) is a global, multi-stakeholder, standards setting organization that advances the human rights of workers around the world. SAI established the SA8000 social standard.
http://www.accountability.org/
AccountAbility is an international organization addressing critical challenges in corporate responsibility and sustainable development.
http://sspp.proquest.com/
Sustainabuility: Science, Practice and Policy is an e-journal for sustainable solutions.
http://sustainabilityscience.org/index.html
Sustainability Science provides a forum for discussing individual initiatives in the innovation process.
http://sapiens.revues.org/
Sapiens is a journal on sustainability.
http://consiliencejournal.readux.org/
Consilience is a thoughtful quarterly journal for sustainable development.
http://www.d4s-de.org
Design for Sustainability explains why it’s important with linking to reference information.
http://sustainabilityscience.org/document.html
The Forum on Science and Innovation for Sustainable Development outlines the burgeoning field. It focuses on ways in which science and innovation can be conducted and applied to meet human needs while preserving the life support systems of the planet.
http://www.bsr.org/reports/BSR_Sustainable_Design_Report_0508.pdf
The Sustainable Design Report describes how to re-think the questions that designers ask when developing a product.
http://inhabitat.com
The Inhabitat blog explores the future of design and promotes eco-friendly, multipurpose, modular, and interactive systems.
http://www.treehugger.com
TreeHugger is a comprehensive site with updated green news, solutions, and product information regularly featuring prominent designers.
http://www.ecogeek.org/
EcoGeek believes technology and nature can coexist and devotes its pages to report new technologies.
www.scimaps.org
Scimaps identifies relevant scientific forums organized geographically and thematically.
www.popsci.com
Covering the full spectrum of the latest scientific discoveries, Popular Science provides coverage on the newest in real and proposed sustainability science.
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=127
The International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing (IJSM) covers the biocomplexity of the environment and its associated technological challenges facing the needs of the society for economic growth and prosperity as applied to design and manufacturing of discrete products.
http://www2.aashe.org/dans/about.php
The Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability is an informal network of professional associations, sponsored by the US Partnership on Education for Sustainable Development.
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