I decided to use Amazon’s “Listmania” feature to create a reading list aimed at Industrial Designers and Mechanical Engineers:
Please add to this thread and I’ll try to keep the reading list up to date.
http://216.169.150.18/webmodules/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=211&z=57 (list)
http://www.biomimicry.net/biomimicryinprintA.htm (list)
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Real-World-Ecology-Social/dp/0897331532/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187302872&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Eco-Essential-Sourcebook-Environmentally-Decoration/dp/0847825507/ref=sr_1_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187308637&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Eco-Deco-Ecological-Recycled-Materials/dp/1903141028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187308674&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Eco-Design-Handbook-Alastair-Fuad-Luke/dp/0500285217/ref=sr_1_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187308704&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/ecoDesign-SourcebookRevised-Alastair-Fuad-Luke/dp/0811855325/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187308773&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/IDEO-Masters-Innovation-Jeremy-Myerson/dp/1856692183/ref=sr_1_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187308892&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Total-Beauty-Sustainable-Products/dp/2880465451/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-3379903-7539226?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187309023&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Designers-Atlas-Sustainability-Conceptual-Landscape/dp/1597261009/ref=sr_1_1/104-8338016-6091137?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189410228&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Environment-Rizzoli/dp/0847813908/ref=sr_11_1/104-8338016-6091137?ie=UTF8&qid=1189414671&sr=11-1
http://www.amazon.com/Design-Outlaws-Ecological-Frontier-Chris/dp/0965030628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-8338016-6091137?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189414725&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/ECODESIGN-Implementation-Environmental-Considerations-Sustainability/dp/1402030703/ref=sr_1_1/103-2799476-6838237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190333640&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Solutions-Developing-Products-Services/dp/1874719365/ref=sr_1_5/103-2799476-6838237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190335720&sr=1-5
http://www.amazon.com/How-EcoDesign-environmentally-economically-design/dp/3764367660/ref=sr_1_1/103-2799476-6838237?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190341394&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Trespassers-Conny-Bakker/dp/9064503753/ref=sr_11_1/103-2799476-6838237?ie=UTF8&qid=1190337292&sr=11-1
Plus some Droog Design books not on Amazon.
If you had to pick one book out of the list, which one would that be regarding this philosophy? One sustainable-product-design-book giving a nice overview so we don’t have to try 10 books covering the same. I think it’s better to use the energy and paper to specialize afterwards. 
An overview, but not necessarily for dummies, as most of us already know something…