Thursday, January 31, 2008

If the end end product can't be Green, the process can be.

If you are involved in design, you need to understand how design the environment. This is not exclusive to your product but also to the lifecycles of your vendors and the supplies that you use. If we are making a site about Green initiatives, shouldn’t we try to implement a cradle to cradle (see McDonough post below)thinking process in how we make our sites?

To develop truly a sustainable product, we must be experts in which design solution is environmentally preferable.

They have listed out some steps for designers looking include sustainable practices

http://designcanchange.org/#act/becoming_sustainable/intro
http://www.pre.nl/ecodesign/ecodesign.htm

Great Resource for in-depth Green for designers.

http://sustainability.aiga.org/

Calculator based on using certain paper stocks
http://www.mohawkpaper.com/resources/resources-calcs/

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