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Post-Petroleum Design

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Title: Post-Petroleum Design
Author: George Elvin
ISBN: 1138853909 / 9781138853904
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 258
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Availability: In Stock
     
 
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Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world’s leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource. Post-Petroleum Design brings them together for the first time.

Readers will be introduced to the most current, innovative, plastic-and petroleum-free products and projects in industrial design, architecture, transportation, electronics, apparel and more. Post-Petroleum Design explores firsthand the client and consumer motivations behind the demand, and shares the case studies, principles, best practices, risks and opportunities of the world’s leading post-petroleum design experts who are already meeting that demand. It introduces 40 inspiring individuals from across the globe; people like Eben Bayer, the American innovator whose company, Ecovative, is growing houses from mushrooms; Mohammed Bah Abba, whose Zeer Pot is helping families keep produce fresh in the sweltering Nigerian summer without electricity; and the engineers at Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design Studios whose Biome car evolves from genetically engineered DNA.

Post-Petroleum Design gives design professionals the information they need to research, evaluate, and select materials, technologies and design strategies that meet the growing demand for sustainable design, plastic-free materials and process energy conservation. Designer profiles, studies, statistics and many colour illustrations all highlight the work—some of the best design work to be found anywhere, and showcased here for the first time.

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I : Oil and Its Impacts
Chapter 1 :
The Golden Age of Oil
Chapter 2 : The End of Oil
Chapter 3 : Grasping for More

Part II : Oil and Plastic
Chapter 4 :
Just One Word-Plastic
Chapter 5 : Plastic Pollution
Chapter 6 : Toxicity

Part III : Post-Petroleum Design
Chapter 7 :
What is Post - Petroleum Design?
Chapter 8 : Transportation
Chapter 9 : Electronics
Chapter 10 : Packaging
Chapter 11 : Services
Chapter 12 : Sports and Recreation
Chapter 13 : Buildings and Building Materials
Chapter 14 : Furnishings and Housewares
Chapter 15 : Clothing

Part IV : Building a Post-Petroleum World
Chapter 16 :
Post-Petroleum Manufacturing
Chapter 17 : New Life for Old Plastic
Chapter 18 : Bioplastics
Chapter 19 : Nanoplastics

Part V : Principles of Post-Petroleum Design
Chapter 20 :
Cycles and Flows
Chapter 21 : Resilience and Interdependence

Part VI : Life in the Post-Petroleum Era
Chapter 22 :
Post-Petroleum Consumers
Chapter 23 : Regulations and Incentives
Chapter 24 : Challenges in Post-Petroleum Design
Chapter 25 : Designing Our Post-Petroleum Future

Index

 
 
 
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