Readings

Textbooks

[Polak] = Buy at Amazon Polak, Paul. Out of Poverty. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9781576754498.

[Book group] = Students Book group selection (Homework 16) from one of the following:

  • Buy at Amazon McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780865475878.
  • Buy at Amazon Prahaland, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. 5th ed. Wharton School Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 9780137009275. [Preview with Google Books]
  • Buy at Amazon Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Reprint, with new forward by Bill McKibben. HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN: 9780061997761.
  • Buy at Amazon Weisman, Alan. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. 10th anniversary ed. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9781603580564. [Preview with Google Books]

Reading Assignments

This table lists the reading assignments by due dates and their associated topics. ASSN # is the Reading Assignment number in reference to the course calendar.

ASSN # READING ASSIGNMENTS SES #
ASSIGNED DUE
1

Hawthorne, Peter. "Power to the People." Time Magazine, 1997.

McNeil, D. G., Jr. "A $3 Water Purifier That Could Save Lives," The New York Times, October 10, 2006. [Story and video about an invention called LifeStraw®]

"More Crop Per Drop." New Agriculturist, September 2004.

Donaldson, Krista. "Why to be Wary of 'Design for Developing Countries'." Ambidextrous 9 (2008): 35–7. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 2.2MB)

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2 [Polak] Chapters 1–4 2 6
3 Read the Design Packet 3 4
4 [Polak] Chapters 5 and 8–11 6 10
5 Read the project Design Challenges 7 8
6

Buy at Amazon Hotchkiss, R. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.Independence through Mobility (PDF - 1.6MB). Edited by Lindi Ramsden. Appropriate Technology International, 1985. ISBN: 9789998942288.

Buy at Amazon Allen, H. The Kenya Ceramic Jiko. Practical Action, 1991. ISBN: 9781853390838.

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For the Book Group assignment (HW 16), each student reads a portion of one of these books:

Buy at Amazon McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780865475878.

Buy at Amazon Prahaland, C. K. The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits. 5th ed. Wharton School Publishing, 2009. ISBN: 9780137009275. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at Amazon Schumacher, E. F. Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. Reprint, with new forward by Bill McKibben. HarperCollins, 2010. ISBN: 9780061997761.

Buy at Amazon Weisman, Alan. Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. 10th anniversary ed. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9781603580564. [Preview with Google Books]

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8 Buy at Amazon Norman, Donald. "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things." and "Knowing What To Do." Chapter 1 in The Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books, 2002. ISBN: 9780465067107. 14 15
9

Green Design Toolkit:

  • Hammond, G., and C. Jones. Inventory of Carbon & Energy (ICE). Sustainable Energy Research Team (SERT), University of Bath, UK. Version 1.6, 2008.
  • PRé Consultants. Eco-indicator 99 Manual for Designers: A damage oriented method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment. October 2000. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF - 1.1MB)
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10 Herbst, Kris. "Compassionate Manufacturing: Aurolab Does Business with the Poor." Changemakers Journal (2003). 24 25