Sustainability

05.10.09 NEW

The AIGA Center for Sustainable Design (CFSD) is dedicated to providing designers with a wide range of information regarding sustainable business practice.

Center for Sustainable Design AIGA

The CFSD website is chock filled with useful, usable information about sustainability. Authored by Chris Hacker, Senior Vice President, Global Design and Design Strategy, Johnson & Johnson, here are “Eleven questions to ask before you design, specify or buy anything:”

1. Do we need it? Can we live without it?
2. Is the project designed to minimize waste?
3. Can it be smaller, lighter or made from fewer materials?
4. Is it designed to be durable or multi-functional?
5. Does it use renewable resources?
6. Is reuse practical and encouraged?
7. Are the product and packaging refillable, recyclable or repairable?
8. Is it made with post-consumer recycled or reclaimed materials and how much?
9. Are the materials available in a less toxic form? Can it be made with less toxic materials?
10. Is it available from a socially and environmentally responsible company?
11. Is it made locally?

WHAT’S NEW?

6:00 pm, Thursday, May 14th : BUILDSMART LEARNING CENTER WEATHERIZATION WORKSHOP; KEEPING ENERGY COSTS DOWN

Did you know that 30-40% of heating and cooling is lost through air leakage in your home?

7:30 pm, Thursday, May 14th : ECO-FRIENDLY, CROSS-COUNTRY FAMILY VIDEO PROJECT

OUR RENEWABLE NATION

NOON TO 7:00 pm, Sunday, May 17th : GREE CRAWL: Alliance for Affordable Energy, the Green Project, UNO’s Rebuilding Information Station, Global Green and the Tulane City Center will open up their doors for tours of green building resources in New Orleans.

GREEN CRAWL

Saturday July 18th: WORN AGAIN NOLA 3 at The Howlin’ Wolf, A Mind-Blowing Night Of Recycled Fashion!

WORN AGAIN NOLA 3

Second Line Project: committee for a green Mardi Gras

Second Line

RESOURCES AND INFO:

Bad plastics, bad! “When exposed to hot water, plastic bottles—including baby bottles—leach a chemical that is known to mimic estrogens in the body.”

BPA

Do Cowbirds really destroy song bird populations? Sift through the research on Cowbird parasitism.

Audobon Society

A fantastic North Shore resource for all things recycling:

Sierra Club North Shore

And recycling for New Orleans:

Sierra Club New Orleans

…AND LINKS TO OUR FRIENDS IN ALL THINGS GREEN…