Tag: The Shape of Green

Ten Views of Sustainability: A Reading List

April 20, 2012 by Lance Hosey

With my latest book, The Shape of Green, coming out this summer, a colleague asked me to compile a list of other sustainability-related books I would recommend. Since the usual suspects—Silent Spring, The Ecology of Commerce, Biomimicry, and Cradle to Cradle, etc.—are so well known, there’s no need to repeat them here. Instead, I’ll focus on a more personal list of favorites that have influenced … More →

The Sustainability of Beauty

August 17, 2011 by Lance Hosey

“Should design be environmentally responsible?” asks design critic Alice Rawsthorn in the New York Times. “The only sensible answer to that question is ‘yes.’ But if you asked a group of designers to define what that term means, each would be likely to give a different answer. Though there is one thing on which they might agree: that the most successful examples of environmentally responsible … More →