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Building Ecology: First principles for a Sustainable Built Environment
Graham, P
2003
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the way we make things
William McDonough and Michael Braungart
2002
North Point Press
This book proposes a new way of looking at products and design in terms of a perpetual value adding cycle. The title says it all - cradle to grave
is the old paradigm: waste equals food and everything should be designed to be recycled into higher and higher value elements, as opposed to
"downcycling" which is described as recycling in which the product deteriorates with each reuse eg paper, some plastics. McDonough began as an
architect and has done a number of green buildings and consultation for big polluting companies on how they can reduce their environmental impact.
Read more at http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradle.htm
Responsive Environments - a manual for designers
Bentley Alcock Murrain McGlynn Smith
1985
Architectural Press
A classic text used around the world in teaching architects, planners and urban designers how to respond to the environment in which they are
working following the fundamental first principles of design - Permeability, Variety, Legibility, Robustness, Visual Appropriateness, Richness and
Personalisation.
Green Architecture: design for a sustainable future
Robert and Brenda Vale
1991
Thames and Hudson, London
The British Gurus of sustainable architecture.
Big and Green: towards sustainable architecture in the 21st century
Editor David Gissen
Authors: Guy Battle, James Wines, Michael Braungart, David Serlin
2002
Princeton Architectural Press, NY
Essays on The Air We Breathe, Vertiscapes: the Skyscraper as a Garden, Beyond the Limits of Sustainable Architecture, and Rethinking the Corporate
Biosphere.
Project exemplars on Energy, Light and Air, Greenery, Water and Waste, Construction, and Urbanism with some diagrams, plans, sections and images.
Cities for a small Planet
Richard Rogers
1997
Faber & Faber, London
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Green Architecture
James Wines
2000
Taschen, NY
Design for the Real world: Human Ecology and Social Change
Papanek, V
2000
Thames and Hudson, London
For anyone who cares and wants to find purpose in their work to benefit human beings.
Non Plan: Essays in Freedom Participation and Change in Architecture
Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler (eds)
Architectural Press 2000
Time based Architecture
Bernard Leupen, Rene Hedje,
2005
101 Publishers, Rotterdam
Real sustainability! Building for the future, explores the phenomenon of change and continuity of our built environment through essays and
project examples.
Becoming part of the solution: the engineer's guide to sustainable development
Bill Wallace.
Washington, DC : American Council of Engineering Companies
2005
338.927 WAL
Explores sustainability from history to present covering innovation, products, cities, economics and the engineers role in practice and
business.
Smart Architecture
Van Hinte, Neelen, Vinks and
101 Publishers, Rotterdam
2003
Neat little browse book packed with new ideas and innovative project examples
It talks of buildings over time, integrated ecological and technological systems and the efficiency of these.
Cannibals with Forks: the triple bottom line of 21st century business
Elkington, J.
1998
New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, Canada
The Costs and Financial Benefits of Green Buildings, a report to California's Sustainable Building Task Force, October
Kats G.
2003
Watershed - Deciding Our Water Future
Ticky Fullerton
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=157611
Weather Makers
Tim Flannery
http://shop.abc.net.au/browse/product.asp?productid=516757
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VARIOUS
http://www.treehugger.com
http://www.abcb.gov.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=Publications
http://www.architecture.org/BG/default.html
http://www.wbdg.org
Property Council of Australia (PCA)
Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA)
Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS)
Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ)
Australian Institute of Building (AIB)
Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA)
Australia Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)
Green Building Council of Australia
A not-for-profit organization that aims to develop a sustainable property industry for Australia and to drive the adoption of green building
practices through market-based solutions.
www.gbcaus.org
Climate Action Network
An alliance of over 30 regional, state and national environmental health, community development and research groups from throughout Australia.
The Australian Branch of the global CAN.
www.cana.net.au
Passive and Low Energy Architecture
An interdisciplinary forum promoting discourse on environmental sustainability in architecture and planning.
www.plea-arch.org
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
The foundation encourages sustainable responses to the technological, environmental, socio-economic and cultural issues affecting building and
construction, regionally and globally. It promotes innovative approaches to sustainable construction through awards, competitions and an
international forum.
www.holcimfoundation.org
UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development
http://portal.unesco.org
Green Building Centre
www.globalgreen.org/gbrc/whygreen.htm
CSIRO- Green Initiatives
www.cmit.csiro.au/research/special/green
GreenBlue
www.greenblue.org
McDonogh Braungart Design Chemistry
www.mbdc.com
English Partnerships
Urban design, sustainable urban design, urban design guidance, urban regeneration, walkability, improving sustainability of urban realm, free
urban design books posted to you!
www.englishpartnerships.co.uk
Association of Building Sustainability Assessors.
A national association that accredits building sustainability assessors (eg ME!). only absa accredited assessors can submit thermal assessment
reports to council (not including deemed to satisfy - i think anyone can still do that!). the website has some good resources, links and info
www.absa.net.au
'archinect'
For archi info and has a whole bunch of sustainability pages listed
http://archinect.com/links/list.php?id=C0_48_26
EcoSpecifier
www.ecospecifier.org
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GOVERNMENTAL
http://www.sustainability.dpc.wa.gov.au
http://www.dpi.wa.gov.au
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=166&pg=1194
http://www.deus.nsw.gov.au
http://www.bom.gov.au
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au
Urban Environment: Challenges to Sustainability: Online Information Source for Urban Environment and Development Issues.
This new Development Gateway Special Report includes international input on current development practices and concerns, with expert views from
the public, private and civil society sectors. It also includes collections of documents and web links relating to human and
environmental management issues in the world's rapidly growing cities and towns. 'Our quarterly specials build on the strength and global
diversity of the dgCommunities partners and members. We have aggregated their content selections, while adding new interviews, member comments
and other links so that our website users get a broad picture of what the world is doing and saying about urban environment and development
issues,' said Mike Pereira, Director of Online Communities, Development Gateway Foundation.
Partners for the report include: GreenFacts, Habitat Jam, International Development Research Centre, Worldwatch Institute, International Fund
for China's Environment, Organization of American States, UNDP: Public Private Partnerships for the Urban Environment and World Urban Forum 3,
a global conference taking place June 19-23 in Vancouver, Canada.
To access the report:
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/urbanenvironment?intcmp=916
Institute for sustainable futures @UTS
http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/whatwedo/proj_democracy_cooperation.html
Institute of Environmental Studies @UNSW
http://www.ies.unsw.edu.au/research/ACADEMICS/AEID_Home.html
Australian Business Coucil for Sustainable Energy
http://www.bcse.org.au/home.asp
Green Plumbers
http://www.greenplumbers.com.au/
Australian Green Development Forum
http://agdf.org.au/agdf/about.html
Provides links to green corps, Australian government Portal etc.
http://www.acys.utas.edu.au/topics/environ.html
Oz GREEN
This site has an environmental training program called "Youth Lead" in places such as Syndey, Alice Springs etc
http://www.ozgreen.org.au/
Sustainable consumption - young Australians as agents of change
http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/youthpubs/$file/Sustainable_Consumption.pdf
ENVIRO BOOK CLUBS
Complete with book reviews and a handy list of sustainable literature
http://www.bh.rmit.edu.au/abbt/bookclub/reviews.html
4 Corners
This is a great website from the 4 corners program on water issues in Australia
http://abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20050209/
4 Corners
Another one on the Timber Mafia
http://abc.net.au/4corners/content/2002/timber_mafia/
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United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
The Brundtland Commission Report
The 1992 Earth Summit
World Urban Forum
Vancouver 2006
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The World Summit on Sustainable Development
The Johannesburg Conference edited by Luc Hens and Bhaskar Nath.
Dordrecht : Springer, 2005.
11 of 16 chapters were previously published by Springer, under the Kluwer Academic Publishers imprint, in "Environment, development and
sustainability", volume 5, Nos. 1-2, 2003.
2005 World Sustainable Building Conference
www.sb05.com/homeE.html
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