Eco-Design

What is this new trendy word? What does it mean? Do you want some?

When researching what eco-design is you will soon discover that most of the references are European. Europe has always been ahead of North America in its search for less detrimental impacts on the earth. Sweden, for example, is the first country to enact legislation making it illegal to use chlorine bleach in or on anything. How progressive!

So by definition eco-design is the integration of environmental aspects into product development, by balancing ecological and environmental impacts at every stage of development from extraction of raw materials through to the disposal of the product.

It assumes that any impact needs to be reduced, but never eliminated--in fact "these products represent an ecological necessity" or eco-designers will be out of work. Eco-design emerged out of a popular policy for environmental protection when the initial goal was to avoid waste and toxic subtances in production. It was expanded, subsequently, to include the ecological life cycle of products. (Eco-designers analyze these cycles.) More recently, it includes socio-economic concerns and sustainability. "ECODESIGN aims at advancing prosperity while reducing "enviroment spending"."

Let me ask you. Do you still want some?

Within Transforming Environments™ we always incorporate eco-design. We also like to think we go a lot of further . . . working more intimately with the environment, reducing the need for consumption, working in communion and co-creativity with Nature from the beginning, imitating nature in life cycles, eliminating impact wherever possible, continually balancing our designs and implementation with and within all species, and recycling or reusing everything. More bang for your buck, so-to-speak, without a doubt!

We are a good choice, if we may say so ourselves.