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Discovering Strategies And Tools To Educate Non Sustainability Experts On Life Cycle Thinking And Effectively Use It In The Design Process

As climate change, resource and water scarcity concerns increase, relevant stakeholders are pushing companies more than ever before to take responsibility to account for and reduce the impacts of their products. This is not just within a company’s operations, but across the entire life cycle. This not only affects heads of corporate responsibility and sustainability, but individuals across the organization, especially product designers.

When designers already have the challenge of balancing performance and cost, how do you incorporate environmental impact into existing processes when you are doing a design for the environment? As a product designer, how can you use complex tools such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to identify key impact areas and make decisions for yourself on the fly in a simple, cost effective manner? Further to that, how can you prioritise your decisions to most effectively reduce your environmental impact?