Green Design

Sustainability has become one of the most important words and objectives in the last years. The modern society gains to live more conscious and to leave only a small footprint on earth. Eco-friendly and eco-friendly produced products are now being widely promoted, especially if they are well designed. Green Design encompasses products from vastly different areas of life representing different aspects of environmentally friendly and sustainable design. This book presents around 100 products that are not only Green, but also Design: beautiful and functional everyday objects that qualify through certain principles of environmental sustainability. These include environmentally friendly resources, production and disposal, sustainability via a long life cycle, energy efficiency or energy self-sufficiency as well as fair production.