Came across this through PSFK: 1000 Words: A Manifesto for Sustainability in Design by Allan Chochinov. It is on a site about industrial design but, like all good design techniques, it can be applied to the creation of anything. Here are his main points:

• * Hippocratic Before Socratic
• * Stop Making Crap
• * Systems Before Artifacts
• * Teach Sustainability Early
• * Screws Better Than Glues
• * Design for Impermanence
• * Balance Before Talents
• * Metrics Before Magic
• * Climates Before Primates
• * Context Before Absolutely Everything

My favourite quotes:

“We think that we’re in the artifact business, but we’re not; we’re in the consequence business.”

“We have to start balancing our ability to be clever with our ability to be smart.”

Check it out: http://www.core77.com/reactor/04.07_chochinov.asp