NEW BOOK RELEASE

Okala provides an introduction to ecological and sustainable design for practicing and beginning designers. Okala means "life sustaining energy" in indigenous Hopi language. It envisions a future where we recognize the value of global ecology and work to insure its protection. The Okala guide revised in 2007 with emphasis on usability to practicing designers and design students. Key attributes of this revised edition include:

Updated Lifecycle Impact Assessment methods that include use the newest environmental impact

characterization methods and normalization data from the US EPA, as well as the newest weighting values from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Okala impact factors (incorporating the aforementioned methods) for 240 materials and processes which enable estimation of the ecological performance of any product or system

Global climate change values (in CO2 equivalents) for the same 240 materials and processes

State of the art design guidelines for disassembly and recycling

Expanded explorations in environmental ethics, bio-mimicry, and design to stop climate change

Additional references to socio-economic relationships

New Green Marketing data and Product Life Cycle costing analysis

Okala was co-developed by Philip White, Louise St. Pierre and Steve Belletire. Eastman Chemical, Whirlpool and the IDSA/EPA Partnership supported its development. The course modules were designed to be easy to integrate into existing classes. Over 60 design schools in North America requested the Okala materials.


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