‘Sustainable Materials: With Both Eyes Open‘ by Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan Cullen was released today, and you can get a copy for yourself online for free! Production of materials accounts for approximately 1/3 of global CO2 emissions, which is about the same impact as transport, but with much less public scrutiny. ’Sustainable Materials’ looks at options for reducing the impact of society’s use of materials by improving the production processes and using materials more efficiently; a strategy that depends on the efforts of materials producers, businesses, government and consumers together. ‘Sustainable Materials’ is available as a free pdf download here, and if you have questions, you can reach the authors via their Twitter handle: @SMWBEO.

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Exiting times lie ahead of us! Yanko Design being the official media partner for iF Design Talents 2012 (aka iF Concept Design) has exclusive access to the 368 Shortlisted Entries! Here is a recount of fifty projects that caught our attention and would like you take a sneak peak at. The winners will be soon announced, so stay tuned for that. Till then; best of luck to all the participants.

 

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San Francisco designer Yves Béhar has updated the SodaStream system for making fizzy drinks at home and will present the new product as part of an installation at MOST in Milan this month.  (more…)