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go deeper: resources for doing good

"Don't just do good design, do good." - David Berman

As promised in Do Good Design, here’s information that goes deeper, or that changes more often than paper can easily accomodate. We’ll keep adding as people keep asking. Suggestions welcomed!


Links to content mentioned in Do Good Design

Chapter 2: Beyond Green

Aspen Design Challenge

Chapter 3: Pop Landscape

Colalife: Simon Berry’s courageous campaign to fulfill what I was only dreaming about on page 40. Go, Simon, Go!

Chapter 5: Where The Truth Lies

To go deeper on Distancing Ourselves, consider reading up on The Mascotting of Native America by Jason Edward Black

Chapter 7: Losing Our Senses

Coal: The New Joe Camel?

Chapter 8: Tobacco Advertising

Tobacco Wiki

Tobacco advertising collection at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Pollay Collection)

Ad gallery at Tobacco-Free Kids

Stanford Prevention Research Center

UCSF Tobacco Archives

American Legacy Foundation tobacco links

Tobacco news and Information

Extensive Links on tobacco from UCSF

Chapter 1o: How We Do Good Is How We Do Good

Greengaged.com

Chapter 11: Professional Climate Change

Cradle To Cradle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, North Point Press, 2002

Design for the World

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Code of Ethics, 2000 Click to download Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Sites article [30KB]

Rules of Professional Conduct, Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario

Chapter 12: What One Professional Can Do

DesignCanChange.org

No-spec.com

Designers Accord (a global coalition of designers, educators, researchers, engineers, and corporate leaders, working together to create positive environmental and social impact)

Appendix B

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Code of Ethics, 2000
Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Journal, 2000 [30KB]

Rules of Professional Conduct, Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario


Sustainable design resources

AIGA Center for Sustainable Design

America’s Second Harvest

Blue Ocean Institute

Carbonfund

Catalogchoice.org

Chef’s Collaborative (sustainable catering)

Climate Trust

CO2 Stats (green renewable energy certificates for Web sites)

Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES) – Green Hotel Initiative

Consumers Union eco-labels

Convention Industry Council green meetings report


Cradle To Cradle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart, North Point Press, 2002

Designers Accord (a global coalition of designers, educators, researchers, engineers, and corporate leaders, working together to create positive environmental and social impact)

The Design Activist’s Handbook: How to Change the World (Or at Least Your Part of It) with Socially Conscious Design, by Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute

Design Anarchy by Kalle Lasn

Eco-labs

EcoLogical Solutions

Energy Star program

Environment Canada green meetings technical document

EnviroTote (1-800-TOTEBAG)

Fairware (environmentally-friendly promotional products) 604-732-3247

FLOWmarket

German Energy Agency

Green Globe 21

GREEN GRAPHIC DESIGN,by Brian Dougherty

“Green” Hotels Association

Green Lodging News

Green Meetings Industry Council

Green Seal – Environmental Standard for Lodging Properties

How Much Is Enough, by Alan B Durning

http://wwwIMEX Green Meetings Award

International Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus – Sustainable Tourism

opens in a new browser windowInternational Union for the Conservation of Nature responsible tourism handbook PDF icon

Local Harvest: Why Buy Local

Lovely As A Tree

Massive Change, By Bruce Mau, Phaidon Press, 2004

MPI Meeting Professional magazine, on greener meetings

Meeting Strategies Worldwide

Monterey Bay Aquarium seafood watch

More Associates sustainable innovation practice

Meeting Planners International NMID 2006 economic impact white paper (section on green meetings)

Neenah Paper footprint calculator

Oceans Alive

Oceans Blue Foundation (OBF) green meetings

PCMA Annual Meeting 2007 green meetings international document

Professional Convention Management Association’s “Environmental Considerations”

Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) Web site

Project H Design

projectmlab.com

ReNewable Products (makers of EarthShell) 1-866-387-3233

Renourish by Eric Benson

ResponsibleDesign101.com

Story of Stuff

Sustainable Travel Magazine – Bello Mundo: sustainable travelmagazine

Terra Choice Environmental Services

Three Trees Don’t Make A Forest

Treehugger.com

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture – The National Organic Program

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Green Conference Initiative

U.S. EPA Indoor Environments Division

U.S. EPA WasteWise

U.S. EPA WAVE water efficiency

Utrecht Manifest social design

Voluntourism online newsletter

World Centric fair trade and eco store

World Urban Forum greening initiative


Ethics & social responsibility resources

Abstract Dynamics Web site

AIGA

alonovo.com

Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario

Backspace

Brandkind.org

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things

Creative For A Cause

Danish Designers Manifesto: The Role of Design in The 21st Century

Design 21

Design Altruism Project

Design Cares

Design For the Other 90%

Design Without Borders (Norsk Form)

Designismconnects.org

Designkind

Graphic Material

Green Graphic Design

Icograda

Icograda Competitions Regulations & Guidelines (English) [673KB]

ICSID Competition Guidelines (English) [120KB]

Massive Change

No-Spec

SocialDesignSite

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Pro Bono Policy (English) [26KB]

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Grievance Procedure (English) [33KB]

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Journal, Number 5, article on Code of Ethics (English) [1800KB]

Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) Competition Guidelines (English) [46KB]

SustainAble: A handbook of Materials and Applications for Graphic Designers and Their Clients

The Graphic Imperative

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Reviewed April 9, 2010


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