Green design revolution

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The green design revolution is a blanket name for a number of initiatives in industrial design to create tools and buildings that use drastically less energy and materials, and rely much more on common, local, biodegradeable input.

In general this green design is more tolerant of labor-intensive processes and more labor input. This makes sense under throughput accounting, though not always under conventional management accounting concepts.

Early examples of green design were extremist and not widely copied:

• the arcology high density housing principle of Paolo Soleri
• Bruce Sterling's Viridian Green which invited genetic modification and even "demanded artificial food", and potentially also human redesign
• Lynn Margulius' specific concept of biomimicry in which copying the natural world is an industrial priority
• Natural Step

Today the much more practical movements are typically best practice summaries:

• Bruce Mau's Institute Without Boundaries, e.g. the Massive Change exhibit and philosophy, which is neutral on controversial subjects like war or genetics but invites public input
• Paul Hawken's Natural Capitalism, much more industrially and financially driven
• Amory Lovins's focus on removing municipal regulation such as zoning in order to encourage an energy-efficient economy
• green building and other eco-syndicalism or sustainable trades efforts
• DC power and LED lighting options