Manufacturing & Product Design (including LCA)

• National Cleaner Production Database - Environment Protection Agency, Australia

• Green Design Initiative - Carnegie Mellon University

• Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing - Berkeley

• Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing Lab - University of Windsor

• Philips Sound & Vision - Philips Electronics Environment Web pages

• Steven Young's Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) - University of Toronto

• IVAM Environmental Research - University of Amsterdam

• Centre for Sustainable Design - Surrey Institute of Art and Design

• Environmental Product Development - Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft

• United Nations Environment Program Working Group on Sustainable Product Development (UNEP-WG-SPD) - The Netherlands

• Thomas Gloria's LCA Page - Tufts University, Medford Massachusetts

• EcoDesign Product Gallery - O2 Global Network

Architecture & Built Environment

• Centre for Environmental Design Research - Berkeley

• Environmentally Responsible Housing - Canada

• GAIATec: The Appropriate Architecture, Engineering and Technology Group, (Grupo de Arquitectura e Ingenieria Apropiada y TECnologia), is a bilingual (English and Spanish) Environmental Design Consulting Group dedicated to applying appropriate techniques to the development of successful long term solutions for planetary habitation.

Other Resources

• International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing
  - ECDM Lab, University of Windsor, Canada

• Ecocycle - Life Cycle Management Newsletter of Environment Canada

• Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Network - US Dept. of Energy

• Environmental News Network is a regional news and information service that focuses on the environment.

• GE Plastics - includes design and properties guides for various plastics

• Global Network for Environmental Technology - GNET

• GreenClips is a summary of recent articles in the media on environmental news. It has a special focus on sustainable design for buildings-green architecture-and related government and business issues. The one-page digital summary is published every two weeks and may be searched by keyword by following this link and selecting the GreenClips_Clipping_Service data set

• International Design Resource Awards - an annual international design competition to encourage the use of post-consumer recycled and reprocessed materials in new product designs

• Interduct - TU Delft Clean Technology Institute, The Netherlands

• O2 Global Network - an international network of designers and others interested in EcoDesign

• Solstice is a server with information on renewable energy, energy efficiency, the environment and sustainable development

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