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Producer Responsibility for Product Take-back Can Promote Eco-Design
Categories: Publications, Sustainable Design - Monday Apr 21, 2008 11:05This fact sheet from Clean Production Action outlines how Extended Producer Responsibility can promote sustainable product design.
Cradle to Cradle Design
Categories: Green Business, Sustainable Design - Monday Mar 10, 2008 09:57Read/listen to the full story from The Environment Report.
The people who make everyday items — from cars to chairs to cell phones — attractive and functional are called industrial designers. Now a new generation of industrial designers is learning how to create products that are environmentally friendly as well. That makes their jobs a bit more challenging.
Business Week Special Report: Green Design
Categories: Green Business, Sustainable Design - Thursday Feb 21, 2008 11:21Business Week has a special report on green design initiatives. Highlights include:
- America’s Green Policy Vacuum
- Using Nature as a Design Guide
- Rise of the Carbon-Neutral City
- Cities: A Smart Alternative to Cars
- ‘Greener Gadgets’ Isn’t an Oxymoron
- Green IT: Corporate Strategies
- Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last
- A New Model for Green Design
- Deconstructing the Energy Bill
- Fueling the Solar Energy Boom
- Driving Sustainable Design
- Solar’s Newest Resource
Using Nature as a Design Guide
Categories: Green Business, Sustainable Design - Thursday Feb 21, 2008 11:18Read the full story in Business Week.
Janine Benyus, dean of the burgeoning “biomimicry” design movement, helps companies look to the natural world to help take their business green