Jeremy Faludi is excited to announce his upcoming textbook, Sustainable Design from Vision to Action!  http://sdva.green. 

The release date is August 20, and printed books should arrive within 12 working days anywhere in the EU, US, India, or nearby (e-books of course arrive instantly). Pre-orders aren’t yet live, but you can sign up to be emailed when ready.

The book is for professional designers and engineers, as well as students. It’s about how to turn theories into actionable practice and build a brighter future, one product or system at a time.  It offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs. It not only provides a thorough understanding of the high-level values and goals of sustainable design, but also gives readers actionable step-by-step guides for how to implement them on the ground, in daily practice. This includes quick reference tables and other resources for practical design, with lists of resources for greater depth. The activities can be used by designers and engineers, in classrooms, or in industry. This innovative textbook focuses primarily on physical product development, but also applies to services, systems, and digital products. It includes a thorough range of quantitative and qualitative methods across the whole product life cycle, including material choice, energy use, systems thinking, design for recycling, user behavior change, business models, equity and inclusion, and more. The book aims to change your design practice to help build a world that is healthy, abundant, beautiful, and fulfilling for all species, for all time.
This highly illustrated text will provide an excellent introduction to sustainable design in practice for industrial design and mechanical engineering students. It will also be useful for professional designers, engineers, and managers in industry.  For a table of contents listing and quotes from reviewers, see the link above.  

Dr. Faludi teaches sustainable design at TU Delft in the Netherlands, and is one of the Sustainable Design Special Interest Group stering commitee members.  If you have questions about the book, you are welcome to email him.