Product Design

Steelcase is recognized as an industry leader in applying life cycle assessment in development, manufacturing, marketing, and product management.  To maintain this leadership role, Steelcase i...

Steelcase recognizes the value of enhancing sustainability in design, manufacturing, marketing and product management.  In response, Steelcase has developed a database to track both the recycled ...

Evaluating Environmental Performance: A Case Study in the Flat Panel Display Industry develops a four step framework for evaluating environmental performance and explores how a manufacturer of flat pa...

Stonyfield Farm's (www.stonyfield.com) concern for the environment prompted it to consider the impacts of its refrigerated yogurt product delivery beyond the traditional focus on container disposal...

Life cycle inventory and cost analysis tools applied to milk packaging offer important guidelines for achieving better environmental design and management of these systems.  Life cycle solid w...

As concern over the environmental impacts of residential house construction grows, many researchers are beginning to use life cycle assessment as a means to quantify natural resources consumption, and...

The Center for Sustainable Systems CSS (formerly the National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education, established by the U.S. EPA in 1991) works towards educating college students, faculty, ...