Design for Environment, Second Edition: A Guide to Sustainable Product Development: Eco-Efficient Product Development by Joseph Fiksel
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Overview: An in-depth roadmap to sustainable product development
Drawing on the experiences of dozens of major corporations, Design for Environment, Second Edition, offers a business rationale for developing sustainable products and processes, as well as a comprehensive toolkit for practicing DFE in the context of product life-cycle management. Learn how environmental innovation creates business value, and helps companies to meet global energy and environmental challenges.
Genre: Education, Engineering
Discover how to:
-Practice integrated product development and concurrent engineering
-Select appropriate metrics to represent product life-cycle performance
-Maintain and apply a portfolio of systematic Design for Environment strategies
-Use analysis methods to evaluate design performance and trade-offs
-Apply systems thinking to reduce the supply chain environmental footprint
This book features in-depth case studies of DFE applications by industry leaders such as:
Alcoa * American Electric Power * Caterpillar * Coca-Cola * ConAgra Foods* Dow Chemical Company * DuPont * Eli Lilly * Ford Motor Company * General Motors * Hewlett-Packard * Intel* JCPenney * Johnson Capitalism at the Crossroads
Design for Environment shows clearly that aligning green design with innovation not only is possible, but is essential to remaining competitive in our brave new economy. This should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand the how to design for today’s consumer and tomorrow’s.
Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com, Author, "Strategies for the Green Economy"
A must read for all practitioners of a Design for Environment approach. This book makes the most compelling case yet for taking a more integrated and holistic approach to DFE the bottom line! Green initiatives must increase profitability to be truly sustainable, and Dr. Fiksel provides the blueprint for how global companies are enhancing profits and winning in the marketplace by designing their way to competitive advantage.
Jim Lime, Vice President, Environment, Health a clear and comprehensive guide to the tools and best practices that are essential for any business that aspires to be sustainable. Innovation will be the key to addressing global climate change and assuring future prosperity, and this book illuminates the path forward.
Dennis Welch, Executive Vice President, Environment, Safety why; developing the what; and implementing the how.
Patty Calkins, Vice President, Environmental Health & Safety, Xerox
The book offers important industry perspectives on how companies develop and design innovative solutions to complex environmental and societal challenges. It goes well beyond theory, offering case studies with quantifiable results that illustrate how companies can save money while improving the environment and helping local communities. It shows how companies of all types are using resources more efficiently, sometimes by teaming up with other industries, to achieve results that balance the triple bottom line of people, planet, and prosperity. This richly-detailed study should be of great interest to industry leaders, policymakers, scholars, and students alike. We are all fortunate to have Joseph Fiksel working on sustainable development.
Andy Mangan, Executive Director, U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development
Sustainability has gone from a vague concept that was discussed in environmental forums to a means for improving business performance. Design for Environment is a cornerstone in communicating experience across various industry sectors about how environmental performance contributes to and becomes a basis for redefining our business processes. Dr. Joseph Fiksel has performed an important task in gathering these accomplishments into one publication, allowing us to benchmark ourselves against other companies.
Steve Gillman, Executive Director, Corporate Health, Safety and Environment, Eli Lilly & Company
Dr. Fiksel clearly states the urgency, summarizes DFE methods, and highlights today’s real world examples of redesigning our industrial systems to create more value while conserving our dwindling natural resources.
Ken Martchek, Manager, Life Cycle and Environmental Sustainability, Alcoa Inc.
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