Sustainable Design from Vision to Action

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This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems. It goes beyond concept explanations to provide you with practical instructions on how to apply the tools and methods to your own designs. The world is finally waking up to the necessity of sustainability, especially in the design and engineering of all the physical products that surround us every day.

Sustainable Design from Vision to Action not only provides a thorough understanding of the high-level values and goals of sustainable design, but also gives readers actionable step-by-step guides for how to implement them on the ground, in daily practice. This includes quick reference tables and other resources for practical design, with lists of resources for greater depth. The activities can be used by designers and engineers, in classrooms, or in industry. This innovative textbook focuses primarily on physical product development, but also applies to services, systems, and digital products. It includes a thorough range of quantitative and qualitative methods across the whole product life cycle, including material choice, energy use, systems thinking, design for recycling, user behavior change, business models, equity and inclusion, and more. The book aims to change your design practice to help build a world that is healthy, abundant, beautiful, and fulfilling for all species, for all time.

This highly illustrated text will provide an excellent introduction to sustainable design in practice for industrial design and mechanical engineering students. It will also be useful for professional designers, engineers, and managers in industry.

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List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Part 1: Vision: Goals and Metrics. Chapter 1. Sustainable Development Goals. Chapter 2. Planetary Boundaries. Chapter 3. Ecodesign. Chapter 4. Cradle to Cradle and Circular Economy. Chapter 5. Systems: Introduction. Chapter 6. Systems: Complexity. Chapter 7. Life Cycle Assessment: Introduction. Chapter 8. Doing Fast-Track Life Cycle Assessment. Chapter 9. Life Cycle Assessment Scenarios, Functional Units, Uncertainty. Part 2: Action: Design Strategies. Chapter 10. Materials: Introduction. Chapter 11. Materials: Metals. Chapter 12. Materials: Plastics. Chapter 13. Materials Bio-Based Plastics. Chapter 14. Product Lifetime Extension. Chapter 15. Material Recovery Recycling Processes. Chapter 16. Material Recovery Design for Recycling. Chapter 17. Energy Literacy. Chapter 18. Energy Efficiency. Chapter 19. Energy Generation and Storage. Chapter 20. Behavior Change. Chapter 21. Business Models Product Service Systems. Chapter 22. Business Models Presidio Booster. Chapter 23. Biomimicry Basics and Mentors. Chapter 24. Biomimicry from Principles. Chapter 25. Equity and Inclusion. Chapter 26. Support and Collaboration. Index.