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BioThinking, developed by green entrepreneur Edwin Datschefski, means looking at the world as a single system, and developing new ecology-derived techniques for industrial, organizational, and sustainable design:
www.biothinking.com
BioRegional is a charity which invents and delivers practical solutions for sustainability, e.g. The One Planet Living Programme of sustainable communities:
www.bioregional.com
An ecodesign resource from Loughborough University developed to support designers who want develop more environmentally and socially responsible products:
www.informationinspiration.org.uk
Brings together UK government work on product life-cycle assessment, product information, and evidence on sustainable consumption and production and waste:
www.defra.gov.uk/environment/consumerprod
An international network of designers and others for anybody interested in sustainable design:
www.o2.org/index.php
SusProNet was a network of industries and institutes supported under the EU Fifth Framework Programme. SusProNet developed and exchanged expertise on design of product-service systems for sustainable competitive growth:
www.suspronet.org
The Centre for Sustainable Design facilitates discussion and researchon eco-design and sustainability in product and service development. The Centre also acts as an information clearing house and a focus for innovative thinking on sustainable products and services:
www.cfsd.org.uk
SusHouse was a European research project concerned with developing and evaluating scenarios for transitions to sustainable households:
www.tbm.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=dfe511c2-82ea-47d2-a6fa-829fc60950a3&lang=en
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