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• 6 Rs & sustainability definitions
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  • Introduction (3)
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    • The Story of Stuff
    • Cap and Trade
  • Climate change
  • Economic sustainability
  • Environmental sustainability
  • Poverty and sustainability
  • Social sustainability
  • Sustainable food
  • The six Rs (7)
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    • Rethink
    • Refuse
    • Reduce
    • Reuse
    • Repair
    • Recycle
• Construction and Built Environment
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  • Design Tasks (14)
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    • KS4 (2)
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      • Self Build Housing
    • KS5 (11)
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      • Courtyard
      • Exhibition Hall
      • Maximising Sunlight
      • Mood Space
      • School Rooms
      • Social Spaces
      • Starter Homes
      • Timber Frame Technology
      • Waste Minimisation
      • Working from home
  • Inspirational Products (13)
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    • bedzed
    • Earthquake resistant housing
    • Hockerton housing
    • lot-ek
    • Maasai housing
    • Paper buildings
    • sean godsell
    • Solar Lantern
    • Solar power
    • Windsave
    • WISE at CAT
    • Wolseley
  • Materials Information (12)
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    • Introduction (2)
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      • Uses of materials
    • Material Types (8)
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      • Earth (2)
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        • rammed earth
      • Metals
      • Plastics
      • Textile based
      • Vegetable based
      • Wood
    • Sourcing Materials
  • Case Studies (11)
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    • Biogas
    • Flood Resistant Housing
    • Micro Hydro
    • Peru
    • Rainwater Harvesting
    • Self Build House
    • Solar House
    • Solar Power
    • Sri Lanka Micro Hydro
    • Sustainable Building Center
  • Key Issues (7)
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    • Introduction
    • Energy Use in Buildings
    • Energy Use In Construction
    • Energy Use In Developing Countries
    • Material Choice
    • Siting and Orientation
  • Further information (7)
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    • Biogas
    • Embodied energy
    • Living villages
    • Micro-hydro electricity
    • Rainwater harvesting
    • Wind power
• Food
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  • Design Tasks (5)
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    • KS3/4 (3)
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      • Fairtrade
      • Local and Organic
    • KS5
  • Inspirational Products (7)
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    • Essential Trading
    • Equal Exchange
    • Organix baby foods
    • respect organics
    • Suma
    • Yeo Valley
  • Material Information (4)
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    • Introduction
    • Choosing Materials
    • Sourcing Materials
  • Case Studies (12)
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    • Organic Baby Foods
    • Organic Yoghurts
    • Jemima and Kenyan food
    • A Kenyan Food Market
    • Zimbabwean food
    • Seed biodiversity - Kenya
    • Peruvian potatoes
    • Floating vegetable garden
    • Honey
    • Cheese
    • Cashew Nuts
  • Key Issues (15)
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    • Introduction
    • Animal welfare
    • Climate change
    • Energy Use in Food Production
    • Fair-trade
    • Fish
    • Local Sourcing and Food Miles
    • GM crops
    • Organic
    • Pesticides
    • Portion Size and Waste Food
    • Reducing Waste Food
    • Repairing Food Equipment
    • Seasonal foods
  • Further Information (6)
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    • International Food Stories
    • Organic
    • Electrical Equipment
    • Reduce Foods
    • Composting
• Graphics
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  • Design Tasks (3)
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    • KS4
    • KS5
  • Inspirational Products (15)
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    • Auro UK
    • blue marmalade
    • Canby bags
    • Corn starch packaging
    • Earthshell
    • Eco-bottle
    • Ecos paints
    • Jedlicka skateboards
    • Katharine Hamnett
    • Paper buildings
    • lot-ek
    • Remarkable
    • Sheep Poo Paper
    • We want tap bottles
  • Materials information (4)
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    • Introduction
    • Choosing materials
    • Sourcing materials
  • Case Studies (7)
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    • Community radio
    • Fair trade moisturiser
    • Katharine Hamnett
    • Radio links in Peru
    • Three trees don't make a forest
    • thomasmatthews
  • Key Issues
  • Further Information
• Resistant Materials
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  • Design Tasks (18)
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    • KS3 (3)
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      • Reuse
      • Reduce
    • KS4 (8)
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      • Culture
      • Material Choice
      • Energy
      • Eden Project
      • Reduce
      • Reuse
      • Transport
    • KS5 (6)
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      • Energy
      • Material Choice
      • Recycle
      • Reduce
      • Reuse
  • Inspirational Products (16)
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    • Biodegradeable golf tees
    • Carpet burns
    • CRY Indian cards
    • Designtex
    • Ecover
    • Energy efficient building
    • Energy efficient lamp
    • Find recycled products
    • Freecharge mobile phone
    • Outdoor table
    • Reuse, recycle
    • Sustainable chair
    • We want tap bottles
    • Wind-up shaver
    • Yemmhart
  • Materials Information (9)
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    • Introduction
    • Materials Types (6)
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      • Biopolymers
      • Glass
      • Metals
      • Plastic
      • Wood
    • Sourcing Materials
  • Case Studies (13)
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    • Bikes
    • Bike Trailers
    • Eden Project
    • Energy Saving Stoves
    • Musical Instruments
    • Peanut Butter
    • Plastic in Landfill
    • Sustainable School
    • Smart Car
    • Toys
    • Tractors to Hoes
    • Windpower
  • Key Issues (7)
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    • Manufacturing (2)
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      • Finishes
    • Environment (4)
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      • Reduce
      • Reuse
      • Recycle
  • Further Information (6)
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    • Sustainability (5)
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      • Products
      • Energy
      • Transport
      • Technical Enquiries
• Systems and Control
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  • Design Tasks (3)
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    • KS4
    • KS5
  • Inspirational Products (5)
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    • Wind-up radio
    • Solar lantern
    • Solar house
    • Energy Saving
  • Materials Information (3)
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    • Introduction
    • Choosing Materials
  • Case Studies (6)
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    • Water balanced railway
    • Solar house
    • Wind-up radio
    • Solar lantern
    • Playpumps
  • Key Issues (7)
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    • EC leglislation
    • Recycling
    • Energy Use
    • Disposal of electrical products
    • Repair
    • Battery use
  • Further Information (2)
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    • WEEEman
• Textiles
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  • Design Tasks (18)
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    • KS3 (3)
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      • Fair Trade
      • Reuse Textiles
    • KS4 (6)
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      • Multi-cultural
      • Reuse Textiles
      • Organic cotton
      • Recycled plastics
      • Repair
    • KS5 (8)
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      • Design To Last
      • Recycled Material
      • Reuse Textiles
      • Fair Trade
      • Tools of the trade
      • Got the message
      • What's it made of?
  • Inspirational Products (6)
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    • Eco-fabrics
    • Fair Trade
    • Recycle
    • Rethink
    • Reuse
  • Materials information (22)
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    • Introduction
    • Material types (13)
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      • Natural Materials (8)
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        • Cotton
        • Dyes
        • Hemp
        • Linen
        • Lyocell
        • Silk
        • Wool
      • Synthetic Materials (4)
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        • Nylon
        • Polyester
        • Viscose
    • Sourcing Materials (7)
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      • Bishopston Trading Company
      • Cloth House
      • Greenfibres
      • Loop Fabric
      • Nearsea Naturals
      • Pan-UK
  • Case Studies (5)
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    • Eco-Fashion
    • Kente Cloth(Ghana)
    • Organic To Fair Trade
    • Recycled Fleece
  • Key Issues (13)
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    • Introduction (2)
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      • 5ways
    • Fair Trade
    • Environmental Impact (2)
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      • Care Of Textiles
    • High Street Fashion
    • Manufacturing And Processing (3)
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      • Dyeing
      • Water Pollution
    • Organic Cotton
    • Recycling Textiles
    • Reuse Materials
  • Further information (17)
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    • Cotton
    • Culture
    • Eco-friendly products
    • Ethical designers (9)
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      • Alabama Chanin
      • Ethical Threads
      • Ethletic
      • Goodone
      • Katharine Hamnett
      • From Somewhere
      • Keep and Share
      • The Hemp Trading Company
    • Fair trade
    • Knitting (2)
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      • UK Hand Knitting Association
    • Recycling
• Gallery
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  • Student Work (4)
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    • Resistant Materials
    • Textiles
    • Graphics
  • Videos (3)
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    • Practical Action Work Internationally
    • Short demi films
  • Images
• Evaluation tools
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  • Design Abacus (5)
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    • Assessing buildings (4)
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      • Energy
      • Material Choice
      • Siting and orientation
  • Eco-indicator (KS5)
  • Eco-web (KS3/4) (2)
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    • Eco-web blank
  • Footprinting
  • Winners and Losers
• Starter Activities
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  • Belief Circles (2)
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    • Belief Circle Statements
  • Bigger Picture (2)
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    • Bigger Picture Statements
  • Creativity (3)
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    • Random Words
    • What If
  • Footprint Analysis
  • Guerrillas and Gorillas
  • Is it Sustainable?
  • It's your world
  • Let's negotiate
  • Line Ups (2)
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    • Line-Up Statements
  • Product Pairs (2)
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    • examples of products
  • Room 101
  • Stealing from the Future
  • The six Rs
  • What's Wrong With the World?
• School case studies

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