selected publications

article "Design's Role in Sustainable Consumption" in Design Issues Spring 2010, Vol. 26, No. 2: 3–16.

"The context of 'low product'" on Core77, May 30, 2009.

"Design as Activism." In the proceedings of Changing the Change. Turin, Italy, 2008.

"SES! (Social Equity and Sustainability)." Innovation: Quarterly of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Spring 2008, 20-23.

The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, Washington DC: Island Press, 2007.

“Time and Design”
Paper presented at Eternally Yours Foundation’s Time in Design 24-hour conference October 2003, NL. Subsequently published as a chapter in Eternally Yours: Time in Design, edited by Ed van Hinte (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2004).

“The Green Light”
Article for Design Week, 29 May 2003. “Industrial Ecology through the Lens of Product Design” Paper for the International Society for Industiral Ecology conference, 2001.

“Encompass: Virtual Tours, Actual Products”
chapter in Sustainable Architecture White Papers, EarthPledge Foundation, 2000.

ARCADE, A Journal for Architecture and Design in the Northwest
Regular Contributor, including:
“Going for Green” (Fall 1999) sustainable building in Australia for the 2000 summer Olympics.
“Salmon in Your Building” (Spring 1999) sustainable building practices that are beneficial to salmon, an “endangered
species,” as well as people.
“An Aesthetic Utility” (September 1998) interivew with Diana Gale, head of Seattle Public Utilities on integrating art
into infrastructure.

EnCompass, Map of Recycled Content Buildings, (website 1998)
visual as well as technical documentation of materials, including sample specifications.

ON THE GROUND, The Multimedia Journal on Community Design and Environment. Editor’s Notes and selected articles, for example, “Who’s Afraid of an Ecoburb?” “Density: Quality and Quanitity” and
“Environmental Costs of Transportation.” vol.s 1 and 2, Ann B. Thorpe, Editor. 1994-1997.

“Driving Out Pollution: The Benefits of Electric Vehicles.” Roland Hwang, Marshall Miller, Ann B. Thorpe, and Debbie Lew. Union of Concerned Scientists. May 1994.

“Survey of Potential Battery-Powered Bus Market,” EPRI Technical Brief TB-101174, October 1992.