Product designers and engineers can help to significantly reduce the environmental impact of products by making sure that they change the way they design new products, by taking into account the ...

Steve Bishop is global lead of environmental impact at the design and business innovation firm IDEO. At IDEO, Bishop helps companies build brands, develop new products, and design new innovation ...

With 2024 tracking to set a new global temperature record—surpassing the high reached just last year—and with an obvious uptick in human suffering due to war, social upheaval, political strife, and ...

Contractors love a technical challenge, especially if they can learn something new and helpful along the way. And few projects fit that criteria better than the Kendeda Building for Innovative ...

The future of the world looks, at the moment, to be rather pessimistic, but there are plenty of designers and thinkers out there who are trying to make life greener and more sustainable — often ...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues are becoming crucial drivers of operational and investment decisions in both the public and private spheres, and the construction industry is no ...

Ten projects have been named the top examples of sustainable and ecological design by the AIA and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) for the year 2015. Now in its 19th edition, the COTE Top Ten ...

Produce, use, reuse – by 2025, we want to design and develop 100 percent of Henkel's packaging so that it can be reused or recycled as completely as possible. 1 This is because we want to continuously ...

Systems thinking is required to create a sustainable future. With its many interacting systems, sustainable design is too complicated to be addressed in a linear fashion, as is typically the case.

It is hard, writing about Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater on a website devoted to sustainable design and living. It is possibly one of the most unsustainable buildings ever constructed, needing ...