Sustainable product design is a critical lever for helping organizations achieve their sustainability targets that is still overlooked by many: Our research shows that, despite increasing awareness, ...

Three paths to success by Frédéric Dalsace and Goutam Challagalla When companies market the sustainability features of their offerings, they often overlook a fundamental truth: Social and ...

What are the eight general provisions? How implementing eco-design brings both similarities and differences between products and components. How you can use available tools and methods to help assess ...

To overcome resource scarcity, meet emissions targets and exceed customer expectations, manufacturers are steadily increasing their environmental consciousness. Those set to succeed are doing so ...

Product, supply chain, and procurement professionals need to ask themselves how their products have been designed and built, how they’ve been commercialized, and what markets they’re being sold to.

How do we make things that last? How can we keep this local? How can we keep these skills in our community? For two decades, these questions have guided Dr. Lisa Hix, associate professor and co-chair ...

Twelve days, sixteen site visits. Hard hats, clean rooms, 2000 degree incinerators. We came to Denmark and the Netherlands in the dead of winter to learn what best-in-class companies were doing to ...

The necessary criteria when benchmarking the sustainability of electronic products. How the GreenTool can help product developers create more sustainable products. It’s no secret that the electronics ...

Sustainable Bioproducts is the study of using renewable resources sustainably to create alternatives to unsustainable materials such as plastics, petroleum, and fossil fuels. Biobased products come ...

With 2024 tracking to set a new global temperature record—surpassing the high reached just last year—and with an obvious uptick in human suffering due to war, social upheaval, political strife, and ...