Women in Green : Voices in Sustainable Design

Over the course of the last year, we've been working with Ecotone publishing and writers Lance Hosey and Kira Gould on Women in Green, a book about the voice of women in shaping and sustaining the sustainable design movement. A short description follows:

Is there a greener gender? Studies show that women are more likely than men to support environmental causes through voting, activism, and consumer choices. What are the implications for the design industry? Does sustainable design have special appeal for women, and do they in turn offer something unique to the field? In Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design, Kira Gould and Lance Hosey explore these questions through informal conversations with architects, designers, consultants, policymakers, educators, and students. What they find is that women may be changing how we all see our world and our work.

The design of the book features silhouettes of women overlaid with various levels of transparency. The modern reinterpretation of what was once a method of portraiture for those who could not afford a real painting, captures the essence of women as a whole in giving shape to the movement. However, the form also breaks down to the individual scale, where much impact happens in the realm of sustainable design. The color, green, was an obvious choice. The book is available here and here.