Emily Carr ID Association – SOS
The following is copied from the ECIDA, see the link below for more! SOS is a new blog series brought to you by the ECIDA, to expose emerging sustainable ideas of the Emily…
PALS Second Annual Summit – report
This fall, representatives from 23 Art and Design schools across North America met for the second time in New York to determine how sustainability could continue to impact art & design education. Many…
Surviving Progress
Based on the book, A Short History of Progress, by Ronald Wright, this documentary contends that short-term thinking is natural to the human brain, which hasn’t evolved significantly in 50,000 years. As a…
Made on Adanac
Made on Adanac: ID Faculty are starting a discussion group about scales of manufacturing. Do items all need to be mass-manufactured? Is there room for combinations of scales in one product, with some…
Think Outside the Bottle
Think Outside the Bottle Even people who know about the environmental consequences of bottled water find themselves in situations where they buy a bottle. What are the reasons for this? What is the…
False Creek Toy Review
False Creek Toy Review Children in North America are massive consumers of toys that normally have a short life-span. How can children help us find alternatives to this paradigm? How do their insights…
Clean Motion: Changing the Way We Travel
A RESEARCH COLLABORATION BETWEEN EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY AND POWERTECH The Project The challenge was to design transportation solutions to help British Columbia make the transition from petroleum dependency to alternate cleaner transportation fuels….
Industry Partnership for Sustainability and Education
Emily Carr University is in its second year of a partnership with Powertech Labs Inc., a clean energy consulting company. This partnership has supported two core studios in design exploring alternative energy, and…
The Partnership for Academic Leadership on Sustainability (PALS)
The Partnership for Academic Leadership on Sustainability (PALS) is a collaboration of faculty Fellows from Art and Design schools across North America working to further the transition to educating for a sustainable future….
thab. A Sustainable Degree Project
Below is an interview with 2010 graduate of the Industrial Design program, Liz To on her sustainable degree project, thab.
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