Managing Eco-Design:
A Training Solution
Manual

Contents of manual

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Executive summary
Professor Martin Charter, Joint Coordinator of The Centre for Sustainable Design

Module 1: Introduction
Tom Clark, Principal, Tom Clark & Associates

    1.0 How the debate has developed
    2.0 Sustainable development
    3.0 Environmental issues
    4.0 Business and environmental
    5.0 Environmental management
    6.0 Organisational context.

Module 2: Managing the process
Dr Joseph Fiksel, Senior Director, Environmental, Health and Safety Management, Battelle Memorial Institute

    1.0 Scope of eco-design
    2.0 Motivations for eco-design
    3.0 Organisational aspects of eco-design
    4.0 Eco-design readiness checklist
    5.0 Eco-design management checklist
    6.0 Technical aspects of eco-design
    7.0 Conclusions.

Module 3: Tools for designers
Dr David Dowdell, Senior Life Cycle Assessment Advisor, Dr Neil Kirkpatrick, Senior Consultant, Ecobalance UK, and Stephanie Adda, Senior Consultant, Ecobilan

    1.0 Introduction
    2.0 Checklists
    3.0 Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
    4.0 'Green' design tools
    5.0 Eco-innovation.

Module 4: Training and communications
Mark Yoxon, Managing Partner, Inform

    1.0 Developing an eco-design training and communications programme
    2.0 Implementing an eco-design training and communications programme.

Module 5: Case histories
Kieren Mayers, Independent Researcher

    1.0 Wilkhahn: incorporating ecological design principles
    2.0 IBM: environmentally conscious product development
    3.0 Hewlett Packard: eco-design through Product Stewardship
    4.0 Kodak: integrated environmental product strategies
    5.0 The Body Shop International: the role of supplier evaluation and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in product development
    6.0 Electrolux: the integration of environmentally sound technologies in product design
    7.0 Xyratex: getting started with eco-design
    8.0 Exxon: managing Product Stewardship
    9.0 ICI: clean design in practice
    10.0 Loblaws: the development of the G.R.E.E.N product line
    11.0 LucasVarity: introducing eco-design.

Module 6: Information resources
Tom Clark, Principal, Tom Clark & Associates

    1.0 Historical developments
    2.0 Definitions
    3.0 Sustainable development: the issues
    4.0 Sustainable development: the principles
    5.0 Business Charter for Sustainable Development
    6.0 Key environmental issues
    7.0 Environmental law: an overview
    8.0 Eco-labels: an overview
    9.0 Life Cycle Assessment: key contacts
    10.0 'Green 'design tools: key contacts
    11.0 References

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