The eco-design handbook - Alastair Fuad-Luke

This fully updated and revised book remains the most comprehensive publication on the market today to catalogue and represent the vast array of ingenious green products available to the everyday consumer. Scrutinizing every aspect of our designed world, The Eco-Design Handbook offers the most innnovative, ecologically sensitive and consumer friendly products for all areas of the home and office, including environmentally sound materials and building products.Whether you are interested in design or the sustainability of our planet, whether you are building a house or looking for new furniture, whether your office is buying stationery supplies or looking for ergonomic chairs, The Eco-Design Handbook is the definitive resource, invaluable for both the lay consumer and the design professional.

Alastair Fuad-Luke is an international sustainable design facilitator,consultant, educator, writer and activist. He believes that designthinking and process is critical in the shift towards more sustainableways of living and working, and vigorously promotes the eco-designapproach. He is the author of several books on eco-design, eco-traveland design activism, including The Eco-Travel Handbook, also publishedby Thames & Hudson.

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