Bytes of Note — Design for the Global Household

Environment, January 2010 — “Design for sustainability is a confounding concept. On the one hand, there is much good information about how to make the products that we buy and use more environmentally friendly to produce, use, disassemble, and recycle. On the other hand, popular design, even of products specifically marketed to simplify our lives, is, in the end, about comfortable households consuming more—not exactly the embodiment of sustainability. Fortunately, there is an area of design practice that has a loftier goal: to meet the needs of the global poor….” (more)