Design is the Solution

Design is the Solution

Design is the Solution (2019) By Nathan Shedroff 6″x9″ 304 pages, 4-color Design is the Solution is the update to my 2009 book on sustainable design, Design is the Problem, published by Rosenfeld Media. This update incorporates some new examples and several new...
Teaching Sustainability

Teaching Sustainability

Last week, I participated in a webcast for Sustainable Minds on using their tool for teaching and, non general, how we teach sustainability to our students. Creating Knowledge Workers for the Greener Product Marketplace, Part 12: Creative innovation educators...
Sustainable Mobile Phone Charrette

Sustainable Mobile Phone Charrette

In July of 2012, I and my colleague, Susan Worthman, led a group of experts from all over the mobile phone industry through a series of exercises, over two days to imagine how mobile phones could be more sustainable. Our frame for sustainability included not only...
Consumerism is a Fail

Consumerism is a Fail

The image quality on this is terrible because it’s so dark but this was a talk I gave at SCAD in Savannah at their fantastic Design Ethos conference in 2012. The topic was about how Consumerism has been a fail for the US economy and both designers’...
DriveNeutral (naming and decal designs)

DriveNeutral (naming and decal designs)

In 2007, some colleagues from Presidio Graduate School started a company to offset carbon emissions of cars. They asked me for help and I named the company and designed the first decals. We did a luggage tag for offsetting air travel as well: