A book in progress by Nathan Shedroff. Publisher: Rosenfeld Media. Anticipated publication date: 2008

The design world makes a tremendous impact on the produced world in terms of usability, resources used, and understanding of priorities. Designers have an unprecedented opportunity to use their skills to make meaningful, sustainable change in the world—if they know how to focus their skills, time, and agendas. In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff will examine how the endemic culture of design creates unsustainable solutions, and will help designers bake sustainability into their design processes.

Design is the Problem will show you that:

1. Sustainability isn't as difficult to understand and address as many would have you think
2. Sustainability isn't difficult to insert into the development process that youʼre already using
3. There are many, practical ways to make the products, services, and events you design and develop more sustainable—right now