Design + Environment

Lewis, Helen; Gertsakis, John; Grant, Tim; Morelli, Nicola; Sweatman, Andrew

• Foreword Graham Cavanagh-Downs, Director, Manufacturing and Supply, Fuji Xerox Australia  1. Introduction2. Managing ecodesign3. Environmental assessment tools4. Ecodesign strategies5. The ecology of products6. Packaging7. Textiles and clothing8. Furniture9. Electronic and electrical products10. Designing tomorrow today  References

"Aimed at designers and those who teach them, this thorough, clearly laid out and practical guidebook will become an essential reference text for those interested in design and manufacturing."Corporate Environmental Strategy || Designers and product developers looking for a primer on creating sustainable products will be grateful to Helen Lewis and John Gertsakis. - Tomorrow || If you've ever wondered what goes into your laptop, your fridge or your fleece but didn't dare to ask, here's a book to kick start your research. Aimed at designers and those who teach them, this thorough, clearly laid out and practical guidebook will become an essential reference text for those interested in design and manufacturing ... for just as designers fashion a product's function and looks, so too are they in a crucial position to affect the pollution it will emit during manufacturing, use and disposal. - Corporate Environmental Strategy || Design + Environment was specifically written to address the scarcity of good, practical resources for designers and students interested in minimising the environmental impacts of products. This clear and informative book will be invaluable to all those interested in learning about the tools and trends influencing green product design. - Sustain || With lots of references, further reading ideas to follow up on, extremely well laid out and very easy to read. Highly interesting and encouraging. - Social and Environmental Accounting || Design + Environment should appeal beyond the design specialist to anyone interested in sustainable development. And that should be the entire product team, from designers and engineers to marketers and executives. - Waste Management and Environment || The authors discuss strategies relating to each critical stage of product life, from raw materials selection to recovery and recycling. Energy and water efficiency are considered, as are the trade-offs implicit in the choice of eco-design strategies. The final chapter addresses emerging trends in DfE. The book is studded with illustrated case studies, most of them specific to particular product groups. - Industry and Environment || This book offers a comprehensive survey of the work of the Centre for Design (CfD) at RMIT, which throughout the mid-to-late nineties ran a government funded industry partnered program called EcoRedesign ... Since RMIT's CfD is now recognised as one of the world's leading exponents of ecodesign, this book is a very welcome summation of their important work ... The authors have a strong faith in the power of Life Cycle Assessments to form the basis of more sustainable design processes ... Design + Environment manages to turn the breadth of complex and often contradictory research in this area into "basic checklists and general rules of thumb" ... Most of the questions evoked by Design + Environment ask "why"? Why is there so much packaging even if manufacturers could save money by reducing the amount? ... In short, why are designers, consumers, corporations and societies to date so unsustainable? ... This then is an excellent ecodesign teaching resource. - EcoDesign Foundation || In all it is an excellent book for designers and students in the design/engineering field that are looking for a technically proficient yet not overly scientific reference book. For those companies who are ISO 14001 certified this book will help if your design teams have, to date, been left out or unclear as the their role and importance in the process. - SiEna News || As a textbook ... this product by the team behind the RMIT center for Design EcoRedesign program is much welcomed for its accessible applied nature. - Curve || As part of the global movement toward sustainable consumption and design, Design + Environment offers a carefully researched and practical outlook in helping designers and manufacturers lift the bar ... - Inside Interior Review || One of the joys of D+E is four chapters dedicated to the ecological problems of and technical details of particular product categories ... Likewise, the knowledge-packed chapters on packaging, furniture, and electronic products are valuable resources. - Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 7 No.1