CSR Event

WEBINAR: Design Greener Products Right - From the Start

There is no such thing as a 'green' product. All products use materials and energy, and create waste. There is no explicit definition of what 'green' means. Industry groups and third-party certifiers are working on definitions and standards, but, as yet, there is no standardized set of metrics to qualify a product as 'green.' The best we can do is make products greener than the ones we make today!

Ecodesign and Design for Sustainability (DfS) are quickly becoming hot topics. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool to enable teams to design greener products using quantifiable results while exploring product's life cycle for creative solutions. In this case, we will explore LCA with a screening LCA software called Sustainable Minds. This tool is meant to makes LCA quickly accessible for non-experts in LCA or environment. It enables project teams, management teams and consulting teams to incorporate sustainability into product development to evaluate it alongside feasibility metrics such as cost, time and performance. This is the way sustainability product development should be!

Join us as we discuss Ecodesign, DfS and LCA with Kimi Ceridon, the Director of Sustainability Services at Sustainable Minds. During the webinar we will discuss:

• Understanding the fundamentals and underlying concepts behind LCA.


• Understanding ecodesign and DfS to systematically incoroporate environmental considerations into product development.


• Incorporating ecodesign to enable new idea generation and opportunity for innovation.


• Integrating these concepts to identify points of intervention, which translate to opportunities for innovation.


• Use a screening software, such as Sustainable Minds, to measure the potential environmental impacts of product concepts and how ecodesign strategies may or may not address these impacts.


• Review some stories and examples of using a screening LCA tool for new product development and consulting.

Taking a life cycle approach, you can use multiple strategies in multiple life cycle phases to improve environmental performance.

This webinar is designed for members of a project, management and consulting teams. They will to gain greater insight into how to integrate and measure ecodesign and DfS strategies.

Wednesday, July 14, @ 1.00 - 2.30 p.m. ET

This event is free, but space is limited.