Sustainablity

Emily Carr is committed to developing an institutional culture of sustainability and to fostering awareness of environmental change within the community. Read more about our sustainability efforts.

The Library has various books, journals, and DVDs on these themes.

Books

Use the following subject headings to explore the catalog:

• Architecture and energy conservation
• Environmental policy
• Sustainable architecture
• Sustainable design
• Sustainable development

Journals

The Ecologist (website)
Sustainability: the journal of record (electronic resource)
Azure May 2009 issue on Green Design. (website)
Metropolis October 2009 issue on How to Source Green Products (article: Carbon Neutral Now)

Selected books on sustainability and design

Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world. Alistari Fuad-Luke. London : Sterling, 2009.

Design for environmental sustainability. Carlo Vezzoli, Ezio Manzini. London: Springer, 2008.

Designing sustainable packaging. Scott Boylston. London : Laurence King, 2009.

The designer's atlas of sustainability. Ann Thorpe. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007.

Okala: Learning Ecological Design. Louise St. Pierre, Steve Belletire, and Philip White. Phoenix, AZ : Ecodesign Section of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), c2007.

Product design in the sustainable era / Dalcacio Reis ; ed., Julius Wiedemann ; [English revision, Chris Allen].by Reis, Dalcacio., Wiedemann, Julius. Koln, Taschen, 2010.

SustainAble: a handbook of materials and applications for graphic designers and their clients. Aaris Sherin. Beverly, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, 2008.

Sustainable graphic design : tools, systems, and strategies for innovative print design. Jedlicka, Wendy. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Sustainable fashion and textiles: design journeys. Kate Fletcher. London: Earthscan, 2008.

Selected books on sustainability and architecture

Architectural design and ethics: tools for survival. Thomas Fisher. Boston: Elsevier/Architectural Press, 2008.
Canada innovates : sustainable building. Luigi Ferrara & Emily Visser (Eds). Toronto: School of Design, 2006.
Design for sustainability: a practical approach. Tracy Bhamra and Vicky Lofthouse. Aldershot: Gower, 2007.
Design on the edge: the making of a high-performance building. David W. Orr. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2008.  

Selected DVDs

Building with awareness: the construction of a hybrid home. (2006)
Waste=food. (2007)
Who killed the electric car? (2006)
Garbage warrior. (2006)