Vitamin green / commissioning editor, Sara Goldsmith.

Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

111 Navy Chair / Emeco and Coca-Cola -- 9707 Bamboo Chair / Eric Chan -- A Forest for a Moon Dazzler / Benjamin Garcia Saxe -- Adnams Distribution Centre / Aukett Fitzroy Robinson -- Adrère Amellal Desert Eco Lodge / Environmental Quality International -- Andrea Air Purifier / Mathieu Lehanneur -- Ann Demeulemeester Shop / Mass Studies -- BioLite Stove / Alexander Drummond and Jonathan Cedar -- Biomega RIO Bicycle / Ross Lovegrove -- Bow Bins / Cordula Kehrer -- California Academy of Sciences / Renzo Piano Design Workshop -- Cellophane House / KieranTimberlake -- Center for Global Conservation / FXFOWLE -- Citigroup Data Centre / Arup Associates -- Colina de Desports / Habiter Autrement with Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- DBA 98 Pen / DBA -- DESI School / Anna Heringer -- Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing Project / Luyanda Mpahlwa -- DiGi Technology Operation Centre / T. R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn. Bdh. -- Ecooler / StudioKahn -- Ecopolis Plaza / Ecosistema Urbano -- Edible Estates / Fritz Haeg-- Elm Park Urban Quarter / Bucholz McEvoy Architects -- Embrace Infant Warmer / Embrace -- Federal Environmental Agency / Sauerbruch Hutton -- Floating Community Lifeboats / Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha -- Ford Calumet Environmental Center / Studio Gang and SCAPE -- Ford Point / Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects -- FREITAG / FREITAG --

G Park Blue Planet / Chetwoods Architects -- Glenburn House / Sean Godsell Architects -- Green Lighthouse / Christensen & Co. -- Green School / John and Cynthia Hardy -- Green Toys / Robert von Goeben and Laurie Hyman -- GreenPix Zero Energy Media Wall / Simone Giostra & Partners -- Guludo Eco Resort / Kilburn Nightingale Architects -- Habana Outpost / Sean Meenan -- Halley VI British Scientific Research Station / Hugh Broughton Architects -- Harmonia 57 / Triptyque -- Hawaii Preparatory Academy Energy Lab / Flansburgh Architects -- High Line / James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro -- Horizontal Skyscraper Vanke Centre / Steven Holl Architects -- Hybrid Muscle / R&Sie(n) with Philippe Parreno -- Impossible Wood Chair / Doshi Levien -- Improved Clay Stove / Practical Action Sudan -- Infiniski Manifesto House / James & Mau Architects -- Integral House / Shim-Sutcliffe Architects -- Kamakura Passive House / Key Architects -- Kraft and Solo Benches / Domingos Tòtora -- Kroon Hall / Hopkins Architects -- Landscape Park Duisburg Nord / Latz + Partner -- Lapin Kulta Solar Restaurant / Martí Guixé and Antto Melasniemi -- Lean + Green Lightweight Wine Bottles / O-I -- Living Wall at the Musée du Quai Branly / Patrick Blanc with Gilles Clément and Ateliers Jean Nouvel -- Lucy/Carpet House / Rural Studio -- Lunar Resonant Streetlights / Civil Twilight Collective -- Manitoba Hydro Place / KPMB -- Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre / Peter Rich Architects -- Masdar City / Foster + Partners -- Media-TIC / Cloud 9 -- Metro Cable / Urban-Think Tank -- Mission One / Yves Béhar -- Modec Trucks / Modec --

Open-Air Library / KARO* architekten -- Organic Jewellery Collection / Flavia Amadeu -- Oru Kayak / Civil Twilight Collective -- Plastiki Boat / MYOO (formerly Adventure Ecology) -- Plumen 001 / Samuel Wilkinson -- Power House / Design 99 -- Prinzessinnengarten / Robert Shaw and Marco Clausen -- Public Farm 1 / WORK ac -- PUMA's Clever Little Bag / Yves Béhar -- Quinmo Village Project / Joshua Bolchover and John Lin -- Recyclable Loofah Panel Houses / Pedro Pedrós and Elsa Zaldívar -- Rolling Huts / Olson Kundig Architects -- SAYL Chair / Yves Béhar -- SMA Solar Academy / HHS Architekten -- SOFT Rockers / Kennedy & Violich Architecture -- Solar Handbag / DIFFUS Design -- Solar Ivy / SMIT: Sam and Teresita Cochran -- Solar Umbrella House / Brooks + Scarpa Architects -- Solarsiedlung / Rolf Disch Solar Architecture -- Southport Broadwater Parklands / AECOM and Whitearchitecture -- Sra Pou Vocational School / Rudanko + Kankkunen -- Stockholm Energy Systems / Habiter Autrement -- Tesla Roadster / Tesla Motors -- Trap Light / Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson -- Traverwood Branch Library / inFORM Studio -- Truffle / Ensamble Studio -- Unilever Headquarters / Behnisch Architekten -- Victor Civita Plaza / DBB Aedas and Levisky Arquitetos Associados -- Viet Village Urban Farm / Spackman Mossop + Michaels with Tulane University -- Villa Cirie / ecoLogicStudio -- W+W / Roca with Buratti + Battiston Architects -- W101 Paper Task Light / Claesson Koivisto Rune -- Wabi Shoe / Camper -- WASARA / Shinichiro Ogata -- Water + Life Museums / Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- Wind Explorer / Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer -- Windbelt / Shawn Frayne -- Zollverein School / SANAA.

Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at the center of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century. Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales, from eyeglasses to landscapes and from motorcycles to skyscrapers. The result is an inspirational survey of the enormous amount of innovative work being done in this field, as well as a directory of products, ideas and techniques for both designers and consumers. Filled with projects that are built and in production, Vitamin Green provides a lively and inspiring visual definition of the term 'sustainable design', showing people what really can be achieved today.