The year 1989 was a turning point in Japan's environmental policy. The concept of sustainable development from Our Common Future (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987) had taken hold, ...

There was a time when cradle-to-grave manufacturing was the norm -- and even made good business sense. Manufacturers made products that weren't meant to last past their usefulness. The products were ...

Deisgn Chain Associates and Technology Forecasters Inc. will present a webinar covering issues involved in designing products to meet environmental considerations. The 90-minute presentation on April ...

Design for the future should only have one goal: positive impact. If we can’t answer the “why” behind a new product, it deserves a hard pass. The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based ...

When Herman Miller engineers began using Cradle to Cradle thinking as part of their Design for Environment (DfE) process in 2001, the world of green design was less complicated than today. All they ...

Look around you. From the building you live in to the bike path you take to school or work to the farmer’s market you visit to buy healthy food, the built environment touches every aspect of your life ...

Established through a generous philanthropic gift of S$5 million, the new centre adopts place-based approaches to address age-related challenges in Asia The College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at ...

The Bachelor of Environmental Design (B.EnvD) degree at the University of Colorado Boulder is the state’s first and only undergraduate, pre-professional interdisciplinary design degree. You can ...

The industrial green game involves the smart design of products, processes, systems, and organizations, and the implementation of smart management strategies that effectively harness technology and ...