Au sein d’un processus de conception, le designer peut intervenir sur près de 80% des impacts environnementaux du produit ou service développé.
Or, en matière de design durable, la Nature, forte de 3 milliards d'années d'expérience, est une source inépuisable d'inspiration pour les professionnels de la conception.
This document discusses product service systems and ecodesign. It notes that 98% of products are thrown away within 6 months, wasting valuable resources. Ecodesign considers the full lifecycle environmental and social impacts of products and services. It is a strategic process that can reduce a product's impacts by 80% at the design stage by considering materials, processes, and practices. The document provides examples of common ecodesign strategies like designing for recycling, low impact materials, and product-service systems. It encourages moving forward by contributing to sustainability and reconsidering brands and services to add social and environmental value.
This document discusses challenges related to increasing scarcity of natural resources and the need for a "resource revolution" to address these challenges. It notes that tomorrow 9 billion people will need access to clean water and cities will need to become more sustainable. It also discusses the need to reduce waste and give waste a second life. The document promotes SUEZ's role in helping meet these resource challenges through innovative and collaborative solutions.
The Handbook for Green Housing is the result of the working group on climate-adapted housing and energy-efficient buildings within the Megacity Research Project TP. Ho Chi Minh funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research as part of special research initiative “Future MegaCities – MegaCities for Tomorrow”.
- Organization: Emirates Aluminium
- Project: By-Product Utilization project from October 2009 to July 2011
- The project aimed to grow green beds around the CAST HOUSE premises of the aluminum plant by utilizing waste water from air conditioner condensate drains.
Get Wasted, Session 1: Waste to Wealth - The Circular Economy Advantage - 01...GA Circular
This is the slide deck presented at our 1st event of a pressing Series on 'Circular Economy & Waste Management' in Asia.
8 million tonnes of plastic leak into the oceans each year, and more than 80% is from Asia! If we don't act now, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050. It is time for individuals, companies and governments to rethink waste, especially in Asia. Today's linear ‘take, make, dispose’ economic model relies on large quantities of cheap, easily accessible materials and energy, and is a model that is reaching its physical limits. Today 80–120 billion USD of plastic materials is lost to the economy every year (plastic which is used just one time and then incinerated, landfilled or leaked into ocean). This is not just a business loss, but one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.
An attractive and viable alternative that governments and businesses are exploring is the Circular Economy. This session - specifically focusing on plastic - brought insights from global business leaders, to social entrepreneurs and waste pickers who are all beginning to see waste not as trash, but as a resource. In emerging countries, managing waste has even become a solution to uplift people out of poverty. As the issue keeps growing, new regulations (such as Extended Producer Responsibility) have started to come into effect across Asia, making brands & producers responsible for recycling their post-consumer waste. Our speakers shared what it implies for big brands and each of us.
Waste Enterprisers is an urban sanitation company operating in Ghana that treats human waste as a resource. It builds factories instead of treatment plants to produce "GreenHeat", a solid fuel derived from fecal sludge, which it sells to cover production costs and provide sanitation services. Its approach finances sanitation through a private business model turning waste into a renewable fuel. It expects to build its first full-scale commercial plant in Kenya in 2013-14 and expand to multiple countries within 10 years.
Jugaad: innovation with high social and environmental impactsWiithaa
This document discusses the concept of "Jugaad", which refers to improvised solutions born from adversity that have high social and environmental impact. It provides examples of Jugaad innovations like the inexpensive Nokia 130 phone, natural refrigerators created by Moroccan engineers, and using recycled water bottles filled with bleach and water for lighting. The document advocates embracing a Jugaad mindset of doing more with less to enable more people to meet basic needs in a sustainable way, such as by prioritizing effectiveness and efficiency over complexity. It lists six principles of Jugaad like using available resources and including margins to create value.
This document discusses product service systems and ecodesign. It notes that 98% of products are thrown away within 6 months, wasting valuable resources. Ecodesign considers the full lifecycle environmental and social impacts of products and services. It is a strategic process that can reduce a product's impacts by 80% at the design stage by considering materials, processes, and practices. The document provides examples of common ecodesign strategies like designing for recycling, low impact materials, and product-service systems. It encourages moving forward by contributing to sustainability and reconsidering brands and services to add social and environmental value.
This document discusses challenges related to increasing scarcity of natural resources and the need for a "resource revolution" to address these challenges. It notes that tomorrow 9 billion people will need access to clean water and cities will need to become more sustainable. It also discusses the need to reduce waste and give waste a second life. The document promotes SUEZ's role in helping meet these resource challenges through innovative and collaborative solutions.
The Handbook for Green Housing is the result of the working group on climate-adapted housing and energy-efficient buildings within the Megacity Research Project TP. Ho Chi Minh funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research as part of special research initiative “Future MegaCities – MegaCities for Tomorrow”.
- Organization: Emirates Aluminium
- Project: By-Product Utilization project from October 2009 to July 2011
- The project aimed to grow green beds around the CAST HOUSE premises of the aluminum plant by utilizing waste water from air conditioner condensate drains.
Get Wasted, Session 1: Waste to Wealth - The Circular Economy Advantage - 01...GA Circular
This is the slide deck presented at our 1st event of a pressing Series on 'Circular Economy & Waste Management' in Asia.
8 million tonnes of plastic leak into the oceans each year, and more than 80% is from Asia! If we don't act now, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish by 2050. It is time for individuals, companies and governments to rethink waste, especially in Asia. Today's linear ‘take, make, dispose’ economic model relies on large quantities of cheap, easily accessible materials and energy, and is a model that is reaching its physical limits. Today 80–120 billion USD of plastic materials is lost to the economy every year (plastic which is used just one time and then incinerated, landfilled or leaked into ocean). This is not just a business loss, but one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time.
An attractive and viable alternative that governments and businesses are exploring is the Circular Economy. This session - specifically focusing on plastic - brought insights from global business leaders, to social entrepreneurs and waste pickers who are all beginning to see waste not as trash, but as a resource. In emerging countries, managing waste has even become a solution to uplift people out of poverty. As the issue keeps growing, new regulations (such as Extended Producer Responsibility) have started to come into effect across Asia, making brands & producers responsible for recycling their post-consumer waste. Our speakers shared what it implies for big brands and each of us.
Waste Enterprisers is an urban sanitation company operating in Ghana that treats human waste as a resource. It builds factories instead of treatment plants to produce "GreenHeat", a solid fuel derived from fecal sludge, which it sells to cover production costs and provide sanitation services. Its approach finances sanitation through a private business model turning waste into a renewable fuel. It expects to build its first full-scale commercial plant in Kenya in 2013-14 and expand to multiple countries within 10 years.
Jugaad: innovation with high social and environmental impactsWiithaa
This document discusses the concept of "Jugaad", which refers to improvised solutions born from adversity that have high social and environmental impact. It provides examples of Jugaad innovations like the inexpensive Nokia 130 phone, natural refrigerators created by Moroccan engineers, and using recycled water bottles filled with bleach and water for lighting. The document advocates embracing a Jugaad mindset of doing more with less to enable more people to meet basic needs in a sustainable way, such as by prioritizing effectiveness and efficiency over complexity. It lists six principles of Jugaad like using available resources and including margins to create value.
Présentation de la première partie de 'après-midi du colloque éco-conception de l'UCM qui s'est déroulé le 20 octobre 2014. La journée fut riche en échange et pleine de créativité. Une expérience qui sera sans aucun doute réitérée pour permettre à toujours plus de TPE et PME d'intégrer l’environnement dans leur stratégie de développement
Présentation de la première partie de 'après-midi du colloque éco-conception de l'UCM qui s'est déroulé le 20 octobre 2014. La journée fut riche en échange et pleine de créativité. Une expérience qui sera sans aucun doute réitérée pour permettre à toujours plus de TPE et PME d'intégrer l’environnement dans leur stratégie de développement
Intégrer l'environnement dans votre activité, comment? La Cellule éco-conception de l'UCM retrace les enjeux environnementaux et la démarche à suivre pour votre entreprise. Pas à pas, le respect de l'environnement fera partie intégrante de votre stratégie et vous en arriverez peut-être à transformer votre business model.
Economie de la fonctionnalité et de la coopérationMartin Neys
L'économie de la fonctionnalité est une stratégie organisationnelle qui consiste en un changement de business model. La vente d'un bien (produit ou service) est ainsi substituée par la vente de l'usage de ce bien. La valeur est donc créée à partir de la fonction d'usage du produit ou du service. Correctement intégré, l'économie de la fonctionnalité apporte des avantages économiques, sociaux et environnementaux.
Internet, ordinateurs, logiciels et applications permettent d'éviter 98% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre mais en produisent à eux seules 2%.
Optimisation et réduction de l'impact environnementale, vont souvent de paire!
Responsive/Interactive ArchitectureEnriching Urban Spaces with Interactive/ ...Shereen Khashaba
The document discusses the evolution of architecture as media from prescribed to responsive to interactive. Prescribed architecture has a fixed, pre-scripted design like the Beijing National Aquatics Center lighting. Responsive architecture absorbs environmental data and responds, like the Galleria Department Store facade that changes color based on variables. Interactive architecture enables two-way communication between people and buildings in real-time, through installations like Under Scan portraits that interact with pedestrians. The document provides examples of each type and argues interactive architecture can transform spaces into dynamic storytellers that evolve with people's needs.
Le Biomimétisme a le vent en poupe, et c'est bien naturel.
S'inspirer du vivant pour innover et trouver des solutions disruptives face à nos enjeux environnementaux, sociaux et technologiques est en train de s'imposer comme une voie d'excellence et d'évidence. Si c'est une nouvelle façon de considérer la nature pour s'en inspirer, c'est également le champ de la pluridisciplinarité pour s'inspirer des autres, rompre avec les schémas préformatés et sortir des silos.
De plus en plus d'organismes de recherche, de groupes industriels, de startups, de chercheurs, d'enseignants, d'étudiants, mais aussi de politiques, de sociologues, d'experts de tous bords s'intéressent à l'approche du biomimétisme, y travaillent, et délivrent !
La Biomim'review, sans prétendre à l'impossible exhaustivité, propose une galerie d'exemples d'applications bio-inspirées. Elle est également accessible en image sur Flickr ou via www.biomimexpo.com. Biomim'expo, c'est le grand rendez-vous annuel des acteurs et parties prenantes du biomimétisme et de la bio-inspiration, qui en seulement deux éditions (2016 et 2017) a su trouver une place et un format atypique et de qualité pour valoriser la recherche et l'innovation, montrer ceux qui font et ce qu'ils font.
Green launching: 7 principles to Connect Growth & Sustainability Standard Deviation
This Earth day, we wanted to inspire more businesses to 'Green Launch’ and are releasing a toolkit to help entrepreneurs think of sustainability as a driver for growth rather than a complex nice-to-have.
Click here to download toolkit and workshop templates: https://standard-deviation.co/#green-launching
Join the conversation on Instagram @wedeviate
Green launching: 7 principles to Connect Growth & Sustainability Standard Deviation
This Earth day, we wanted to inspire more businesses to 'Green Launch’ and are releasing a toolkit to help entrepreneurs think of sustainability as a driver for growth rather than a complex nice-to-have.
Click here to download toolkit and workshop templates: https://standard-deviation.co/#green-launching
Join the conversation on Instagram @wedeviate
The document provides an overview of starting a sustainable business. It defines a sustainable business as having a triple bottom line of people, profit, and planet. It recommends conducting an audit to understand one's current sustainability practices and developing sustainable products using systems thinking. It emphasizes partnering with sustainable suppliers and implementing sustainable practices across governance, employees, environment, supply chain, and social responsibility once a business is running. Certification frameworks can help businesses achieve sustainability goals.
Thriving in the Circular Economy: Product Design and Business Practices for “...Antea Group
With current and upcoming resource constraints, plus society's growing disapproval of "disposable" products, it's time to design and offer products to leverage existing resources and keep them in the economy after use. This webinar will walk participants along the path from the make-and-waste Linear Economy to the use-and-reuse Circular Economy.
The Circular Economy sounds good financially and environmentally, but how does one actually transform an industry from the Linear to the Circular Economy? This presentation (given by Pamela Gordon as part of the NAEM 2017 webinar series) will provide specific ways of implementing Circular Economy design and business practices at manufacturing companies, with examples from the tech industry that will inspire all industries.
The document discusses various aspects of sustainability as they relate to hotels and resorts. It provides examples of sustainable practices across operations, including waste reduction, water and energy conservation, green cleaning products, sustainable food and materials sourcing, and more. The goal is for hotels to minimize their environmental impact and create a positive experience for guests and employees through sustainable operations.
The document discusses various aspects of sustainability as they relate to hotels and resorts. It provides examples of sustainable practices across operations, including waste reduction, water and energy conservation, green cleaning products, sustainable food and materials sourcing, and staff training. The goal is for hotels to minimize their environmental impact and create a holistic sustainability program through initiatives in these and other areas of operations.
- Intro to the circular economy
- Combining multiple perspectives to create circular value
- Circular business modeling
- Examples and tools
Hosted by Wim Van Opstal (VITO)
Handprinting: The Art and Science of Quantifying Positive ImpactsSustainable Brands
SB'14 San Diego
Greg Norris, Co-Director, SHINE, Harvard School of Public Health
Gale Tedhams, Director, Sustainability, Owens Corning
Laura Draucker, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Handprinting refers to quantifying the positive consequence of a company or organization, its products or services and how it relates with all its stakeholders. The goal for an organization that engages in measuring its handprint isn't simply to minimize its negative impact, but to maximize its positive influence while enhancing operational efficiency and profitability, and to pursue net-positive sustainability in which its handprint exceeds its footprint. Join this session for a crash course on reimagining how a brand measures the success of its sustainability initiatives.
Ahead of the marcus evans AmericaPack Summit 2022, Anthony Rossi discusses how adoption of reusable packaging is growing rapidly and why manufacturers need to rethink packaging.
Resilience Design Toolkit. 50 Ingredients for Sustainable Business Model Inno...Sebastiaan de Neubourg
The Resilience Design Toolkit is a tool for change makers.
The toolkit offers a straightforward way to integrate key sustainability principles within the core business of a company, creating a more resilient and circular economy. The tool combines resilience thinking and biomimicry and is built on basis of the Business Model Canvas.
The tool is freely available under a creative commons license.
BasuraCero is a company that tackles hard-to-recycle plastics by transforming them into useful products. They work with companies that produce plastic waste and transform that waste into products those companies can use, helping to solve the plastic pollution problem and create environmental awareness. If they win $50,000, they will use the investment to meet their growing needs as the company expands.
Sealed Air creates solutions that transform industries by combining ideas and expertise. It reimagines how businesses operate to create more sustainable and efficient solutions. Sealed Air focuses on delivering shared value for customers through purposeful innovation, partnerships, and building knowledge. It aims to create business-changing results.
The document discusses building a sustainable fashion business through the EcoChic Design Award. It explains that a sustainable business aims for positive social and environmental impacts alongside profit. The fashion industry is highly polluting so there is a responsibility to change this. Being sustainable can lower costs and increase profits through more efficient operations. It then provides tips for various stages of business operations to reduce environmental impacts, such as choosing sustainable materials, reducing waste and emissions in design, production, distribution and retail.
Présentation de la première partie de 'après-midi du colloque éco-conception de l'UCM qui s'est déroulé le 20 octobre 2014. La journée fut riche en échange et pleine de créativité. Une expérience qui sera sans aucun doute réitérée pour permettre à toujours plus de TPE et PME d'intégrer l’environnement dans leur stratégie de développement
Présentation de la première partie de 'après-midi du colloque éco-conception de l'UCM qui s'est déroulé le 20 octobre 2014. La journée fut riche en échange et pleine de créativité. Une expérience qui sera sans aucun doute réitérée pour permettre à toujours plus de TPE et PME d'intégrer l’environnement dans leur stratégie de développement
Intégrer l'environnement dans votre activité, comment? La Cellule éco-conception de l'UCM retrace les enjeux environnementaux et la démarche à suivre pour votre entreprise. Pas à pas, le respect de l'environnement fera partie intégrante de votre stratégie et vous en arriverez peut-être à transformer votre business model.
Economie de la fonctionnalité et de la coopérationMartin Neys
L'économie de la fonctionnalité est une stratégie organisationnelle qui consiste en un changement de business model. La vente d'un bien (produit ou service) est ainsi substituée par la vente de l'usage de ce bien. La valeur est donc créée à partir de la fonction d'usage du produit ou du service. Correctement intégré, l'économie de la fonctionnalité apporte des avantages économiques, sociaux et environnementaux.
Internet, ordinateurs, logiciels et applications permettent d'éviter 98% des émissions de gaz à effet de serre mais en produisent à eux seules 2%.
Optimisation et réduction de l'impact environnementale, vont souvent de paire!
Responsive/Interactive ArchitectureEnriching Urban Spaces with Interactive/ ...Shereen Khashaba
The document discusses the evolution of architecture as media from prescribed to responsive to interactive. Prescribed architecture has a fixed, pre-scripted design like the Beijing National Aquatics Center lighting. Responsive architecture absorbs environmental data and responds, like the Galleria Department Store facade that changes color based on variables. Interactive architecture enables two-way communication between people and buildings in real-time, through installations like Under Scan portraits that interact with pedestrians. The document provides examples of each type and argues interactive architecture can transform spaces into dynamic storytellers that evolve with people's needs.
Le Biomimétisme a le vent en poupe, et c'est bien naturel.
S'inspirer du vivant pour innover et trouver des solutions disruptives face à nos enjeux environnementaux, sociaux et technologiques est en train de s'imposer comme une voie d'excellence et d'évidence. Si c'est une nouvelle façon de considérer la nature pour s'en inspirer, c'est également le champ de la pluridisciplinarité pour s'inspirer des autres, rompre avec les schémas préformatés et sortir des silos.
De plus en plus d'organismes de recherche, de groupes industriels, de startups, de chercheurs, d'enseignants, d'étudiants, mais aussi de politiques, de sociologues, d'experts de tous bords s'intéressent à l'approche du biomimétisme, y travaillent, et délivrent !
La Biomim'review, sans prétendre à l'impossible exhaustivité, propose une galerie d'exemples d'applications bio-inspirées. Elle est également accessible en image sur Flickr ou via www.biomimexpo.com. Biomim'expo, c'est le grand rendez-vous annuel des acteurs et parties prenantes du biomimétisme et de la bio-inspiration, qui en seulement deux éditions (2016 et 2017) a su trouver une place et un format atypique et de qualité pour valoriser la recherche et l'innovation, montrer ceux qui font et ce qu'ils font.
Green launching: 7 principles to Connect Growth & Sustainability Standard Deviation
This Earth day, we wanted to inspire more businesses to 'Green Launch’ and are releasing a toolkit to help entrepreneurs think of sustainability as a driver for growth rather than a complex nice-to-have.
Click here to download toolkit and workshop templates: https://standard-deviation.co/#green-launching
Join the conversation on Instagram @wedeviate
Green launching: 7 principles to Connect Growth & Sustainability Standard Deviation
This Earth day, we wanted to inspire more businesses to 'Green Launch’ and are releasing a toolkit to help entrepreneurs think of sustainability as a driver for growth rather than a complex nice-to-have.
Click here to download toolkit and workshop templates: https://standard-deviation.co/#green-launching
Join the conversation on Instagram @wedeviate
The document provides an overview of starting a sustainable business. It defines a sustainable business as having a triple bottom line of people, profit, and planet. It recommends conducting an audit to understand one's current sustainability practices and developing sustainable products using systems thinking. It emphasizes partnering with sustainable suppliers and implementing sustainable practices across governance, employees, environment, supply chain, and social responsibility once a business is running. Certification frameworks can help businesses achieve sustainability goals.
Thriving in the Circular Economy: Product Design and Business Practices for “...Antea Group
With current and upcoming resource constraints, plus society's growing disapproval of "disposable" products, it's time to design and offer products to leverage existing resources and keep them in the economy after use. This webinar will walk participants along the path from the make-and-waste Linear Economy to the use-and-reuse Circular Economy.
The Circular Economy sounds good financially and environmentally, but how does one actually transform an industry from the Linear to the Circular Economy? This presentation (given by Pamela Gordon as part of the NAEM 2017 webinar series) will provide specific ways of implementing Circular Economy design and business practices at manufacturing companies, with examples from the tech industry that will inspire all industries.
The document discusses various aspects of sustainability as they relate to hotels and resorts. It provides examples of sustainable practices across operations, including waste reduction, water and energy conservation, green cleaning products, sustainable food and materials sourcing, and more. The goal is for hotels to minimize their environmental impact and create a positive experience for guests and employees through sustainable operations.
The document discusses various aspects of sustainability as they relate to hotels and resorts. It provides examples of sustainable practices across operations, including waste reduction, water and energy conservation, green cleaning products, sustainable food and materials sourcing, and staff training. The goal is for hotels to minimize their environmental impact and create a holistic sustainability program through initiatives in these and other areas of operations.
- Intro to the circular economy
- Combining multiple perspectives to create circular value
- Circular business modeling
- Examples and tools
Hosted by Wim Van Opstal (VITO)
Handprinting: The Art and Science of Quantifying Positive ImpactsSustainable Brands
SB'14 San Diego
Greg Norris, Co-Director, SHINE, Harvard School of Public Health
Gale Tedhams, Director, Sustainability, Owens Corning
Laura Draucker, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Handprinting refers to quantifying the positive consequence of a company or organization, its products or services and how it relates with all its stakeholders. The goal for an organization that engages in measuring its handprint isn't simply to minimize its negative impact, but to maximize its positive influence while enhancing operational efficiency and profitability, and to pursue net-positive sustainability in which its handprint exceeds its footprint. Join this session for a crash course on reimagining how a brand measures the success of its sustainability initiatives.
Ahead of the marcus evans AmericaPack Summit 2022, Anthony Rossi discusses how adoption of reusable packaging is growing rapidly and why manufacturers need to rethink packaging.
Resilience Design Toolkit. 50 Ingredients for Sustainable Business Model Inno...Sebastiaan de Neubourg
The Resilience Design Toolkit is a tool for change makers.
The toolkit offers a straightforward way to integrate key sustainability principles within the core business of a company, creating a more resilient and circular economy. The tool combines resilience thinking and biomimicry and is built on basis of the Business Model Canvas.
The tool is freely available under a creative commons license.
BasuraCero is a company that tackles hard-to-recycle plastics by transforming them into useful products. They work with companies that produce plastic waste and transform that waste into products those companies can use, helping to solve the plastic pollution problem and create environmental awareness. If they win $50,000, they will use the investment to meet their growing needs as the company expands.
Sealed Air creates solutions that transform industries by combining ideas and expertise. It reimagines how businesses operate to create more sustainable and efficient solutions. Sealed Air focuses on delivering shared value for customers through purposeful innovation, partnerships, and building knowledge. It aims to create business-changing results.
The document discusses building a sustainable fashion business through the EcoChic Design Award. It explains that a sustainable business aims for positive social and environmental impacts alongside profit. The fashion industry is highly polluting so there is a responsibility to change this. Being sustainable can lower costs and increase profits through more efficient operations. It then provides tips for various stages of business operations to reduce environmental impacts, such as choosing sustainable materials, reducing waste and emissions in design, production, distribution and retail.
This document provides information about green business administration and marketing to environmentally conscious customers. It discusses targeting the LOHAS (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) market and using a "7 Ps" marketing framework. It also addresses drivers of sustainability like reduced costs and increased revenue. Specific companies like SAP, Oshkosh Corporation, and Proximity Hotel are examined as examples. The document concludes with resources for ecopreneurs, including websites, books, and organizations like Co-op America and the Midwest Renewable Energy Association.
Circular Design and its aspects for design.pptxAshutosh Kumar
Design is the process of creating products, services, and systems to meet human needs and desires. Circular design focuses on creating products and services for the circular economy by rethinking the design process from the beginning to ensure materials have regenerative life cycles through repair, reuse, recycling, or transformation. The principles of circular design are to understand challenges and opportunities, define goals, develop concepts through prototyping and testing, and launch products to gather feedback for continuous evolution.
Circular Design and it's features available.pdfAshutosh Kumar
Design is the process of creating products, services, and systems to meet human needs and desires. Circular design focuses on creating products and services for the circular economy by rethinking the design process from the beginning to ensure materials have regenerative life cycles through repair, reuse, recycling, or transformation. The principles of circular design are to understand challenges and opportunities, define goals, make prototypes, and launch concepts to gather feedback for continuous evolution.
Sustainability involves utilizing natural resources, reducing environmental hazards, and increasing social cohesion and awareness as an ongoing process of achieving stabilization. As the global population and consumption increases while resources are limited, unsustainable practices can have negative environmental and social impacts. Truly sustainable organizations generate revenue without harming people or the planet by reducing, reusing and recycling to maintain an economic, environmental and social balance. Examples of sustainable companies include Wipro, which produces energy efficient electronics and practices environmental stewardship, and SCA, a forest products company ranked among the world's most sustainable that aims to reduce its carbon footprint and benefit communities. Future managers must embrace sustainability through open-minded, coherent policies and skills to implement long-term beneficial plans
Sustainability involves utilizing natural resources, reducing environmental hazards, and increasing social cohesion and awareness as an ongoing process of achieving stabilization. As the global population and consumption increases while resources are limited, unsustainable practices can have negative environmental and social impacts. Truly sustainable organizations generate revenue without harming people or the planet by reducing, reusing and recycling to maintain an economic, environmental and social balance. Examples of sustainable companies include Wipro, which produces energy efficient electronics and practices environmental stewardship, and SCA, a forest products company ranked among the world's most sustainable that aims to reduce its carbon footprint and benefit communities. Future managers must embrace sustainability through open-minded, coherent policies that employees implement to continuously improve a company's
1. The document outlines steps that companies can take to integrate sustainability into their business strategies and operations, including building a business case, committing senior resources, setting baselines and goals, addressing organizational resistance through collaboration and innovation, and fully integrating sustainability into the company's culture and processes.
2. It provides examples of sustainability goals and strategies from companies like Unilever and Dow Chemical that create value for both business and society.
3. The document concludes by discussing emerging views that the purpose of business needs to change to bring more value to society through approaches like shared value creation.
Similar to Séminaire UCM Greenloop - Design Biomimetique et Durable 2014 (20)
ARENA - Young adults in the workplace (Knight Moves).pdfKnight Moves
Presentations of Bavo Raeymaekers (Project lead youth unemployment at the City of Antwerp), Suzan Martens (Service designer at Knight Moves) and Adriaan De Keersmaeker (Community manager at Talk to C)
during the 'Arena • Young adults in the workplace' conference hosted by Knight Moves.
Practical eLearning Makeovers for EveryoneBianca Woods
Welcome to Practical eLearning Makeovers for Everyone. In this presentation, we’ll take a look at a bunch of easy-to-use visual design tips and tricks. And we’ll do this by using them to spruce up some eLearning screens that are in dire need of a new look.
International Upcycling Research Network advisory board meeting 4Kyungeun Sung
Slides used for the International Upcycling Research Network advisory board 4 (last one). The project is based at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Séminaire UCM Greenloop - Design Biomimetique et Durable 2014
1. LES SECRETS DE LA NATURE
INSPIRENT L’ECO-DESIGN
Séminaire sur le Design
biomimétique et durable
Cellule éco-conception UCM
Bruxelles
7 octobre 2014
2. Sensibilisation
Accompagnements personnalisés aux PME brux.
Pour des solutions environnementales concrètes et
économiquement réalistes
Gratuitement !
Exemples d’outils développés :
Application ECOHAIR
Stand éco-conçus
Bonnes pratiques…
Traduction et impression de l’Ecolizer 2.0
Implication AEE
La Cellule éco-conception UCM
3. Phase de réflexions
design et de
conception
100%20 des
efforts
investis%
Impactsenvironnementaux
80%
Choixtechniques(coûts)
80%
Des
concepts
Des
idées
Source : Pôle éco-conception et management Cycle de vie
Une
solution
+
un
prototype
Des
produits
et des
services
finis
Des déchets
ou des
ressources ?
4. Interaction UCM - MAD
- Promotion du projet Triaxes (interaction des compétences)
- Travail commun sur l’AEE
Genèse du projet
Premier séminaire thématique
septembre 2013
- Visée inspiratrice via exemples du vivant
- Approche des Life’s principles comme clé
réflexive pour un design eco-responsable
Besoins exprimés :
- Méthodologie concrète pour approcher le
vivant et employer ses principes
- Exercices de manipulation des outils
disponibles
- Exemples de réalisation humaine
biomimétiques
5. Timing Parties
10 Genèse du projet
5 Agenda et objectifs et avertissements
10 Whole System Design - intro
15 Whole System Design - Lovins house example
20 Exercice sur les systèmes
10 Eco design - le cycle de vie du produits
15 Eco design - forme
15 Eco design - matières
5 Résumé des outils
40 Exercice s/ un objet
30 Debrief exerice
5 Q&R
Introduction, objectifs, et avertisseme
180 minutes
6. « Avertissement »
Public hétérogène et nous-même ne sommes pas
designers – Vision de la conception au sens large
Idée première : Approfondir l’ambition du premier
séminaire et répondre aux attentes exprimées
Méthodologie propre à caractère expérimental
Mise sur la participation et les retours :
en fin de séance (si le temps le permet)
au walking dinner
sur le questionnaire de satisfaction
17. The Whole Système Design – rmi.org
- Collaboration
- Goals
- Rewards
Source: www.rmi.org
18.
19. Plantes « supérieures » ou aquariums ?
Coopération et innovation
« Life competes within a cooperative
framework »
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cards:
CO-CREATE WITH
SUPPLIERS &
CLIENTS
Do we ask customers feedback on a
regular basis? De we collaborate
with suppliers to build a better
product or service together?
Could we invite our clients to help
us develop better products and
services? Could we create more
synergies, like a forest? Could we
tab into collaborative consumption?
create win-win situations for
all
businessmodel&
organisation21
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BUILD A
COMMON
PURPOSE
Do all the people within our
organization positively associates
themselves with our values and
purpose? Do our suppliers share
our purpose?
Can we get our clients to subscribe
to our purpose? Could they help us
promote it? Could we work with
likeminded stakeholders to enlarge
our impact?
align with stakeholder in your
ecosystem to work towards
a shared purpose
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organisation
« Pour un organisme vivant, se
maintenir en vie s’appuie autant
sur sa capacité de reliance avec
ses voisins que sur celle de
croître et de se reproduire »
Tom Wakeford, « Liaisons of Life »
21.
22. The Whole Système Design – rmi.org
- End-use
- Cause or purpose
- Time and space
- Constraints
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cards:
MULTI-
FUNCTIONALIT
Y
Does our product or service meets
multiple needs that our customers
have? Can it be transformed into
something else? Does our
packaging serves multiple
functions?
Could our distribution channels
serve different purposes? Could
we increase the impact of our
positive externalities? Could our
meet multiple needs and fulfil
various functions with your
product or service
products&services
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SELL
FUNCTIONALITY
What are the functions you
deliver? Are we sure to solve a
true customer pain or bring a real
gain?
Could our product or service
deliver an additional customer
experience because it is more
sustainable? Could we improve
our positive environmental impact
by delivering a better service or
first and foremost, satisfy a true
customer need
products&services
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CREATE MULTIPLE
REVENUE
STREAMS
What kind of ‘waste’ services or
products do we have that are not
given a commercial value at this
moment in time? Can we create a
new revenue stream out of these?
Can we find new customers
segment for these?
Could we ‘pay’ our suppliers with
our own services? Could we use our
excess time, space or capacity?
create more revenue streams
using your resources,
knowhow and waste
businessmodel&
organisation23
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0
2
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New revenue streams based on the
value of your waste will help you
SAVE COSTS.
Diversification in your revenue
streams will make you MORE
RESILIENT.
Scan this code to learn
more about inspiring
cases and dedicated
tools
The Songhai farm is a training
center for agro entrepreneurs
which experiment a biomimetic
agriculture. Every activity
(chicken farm, farmed fishes,
vegetables, mushrooms,
honey, biogas,…) is linked to
another one in a system where
wastes are cascading from
one to another. The whole
system offers a diversity of
revenues which makes it
economically resilient.
The Songhai farm
32. The Whole Système Design – rmi.org
- Clean sheet
- Cost tunneling
- Feedback
- Measured data
Source: www.rmi.org
33. 7
seealsocards: KEEP WATCH ON
YOUR
(ECO)SYSTEM
Are we well informed about changes in
our environment? New technologies?
Changing customers preferences?
Regulations? Do we understand its
impacts?
How could we better adapt and benefit
from change? How could we better
integrate the unexpected? Could we
adapt faster through self-organisation?
creatively use and respond to
change
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2
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2
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2
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7
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DECENTRALISE
INITIATIVES &
RESPONABILITIES
Do we stimulate self-organisation?
Does our company stimulate bottom-
up initiatives and creativity? Do we
have a leadership style that fosters
freedom and responsibility? Do we
cultivate a culture of trust?
Could we give more decision making
powers to those closed to the
problem? Could we make better use of
collective intelligence?
empower collaborators to make
decisions at local level
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2
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6
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cards:
WASTE =
VALUABLE
RESOURCE
Do we re-use our waste materials?
Is our waste of interest to
neighbouring companies? Do we
make our products out of recyclable
materials? Do we inform our
customers on how to recycle?
Could we build products on basis of
wasted resources? Could we up-
cycle? Could we make it easier for
customers to return used products?
Could we create a zero waste
business model and be part of the
waste does not exists; take a
circular approach
materials&
processes7
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cards:
SUPPORT
BIODIVERSITY
Are we supporting biodiversity in
our direct environment? Are our
materials sourced with respect for
biodiversity? Do our resources
originate from monoculture? Do we
know our impact on biodiversity?
Could we communicate our impact
on biodiversity? Could we become
a company that restores and
improves biodiversity?
understand & manage your
impact on biodiversity
materials&
processes
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2
2
6
9
4
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cards:
MINIMIZE USE
OF ENERGY &
WATER
Do we know where most energy and
water is used in the life cycle of our
products? Do we monitor energy and
water usage in our activities?
Could we reduce our unit price to
customers through our savings?
Could we help our customers reduce
their water and energy usage? Could
we work with our partners to help
reduce theirs?
minimize the quantity of
energy & water used
anywhere in your ecosystem
materials&
processes1
1
2
1
8
3
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cards:
RE-CYCLE
ENERGY &
WATER
Do we re-use our ‘waste’ energy
or water in-house? Do we have
an idea of how much we could re-
cycle?
Could our neighbouring
businesses or partners re-use it?
Could we use water in a closed
loop? Could we recover rain
water for a specific usage?
re-cycle your own or others’
excess energy & water
materials&
processes
2
1
2
4
2
1
1
36. 7
seealsocards:
ECOLOGICAL
MATERIALS
Do we look for renewable
alternatives for the materials we
use? Do we look for material
sources that are organic? Do we use
water as primary solvent?
Could our products be
biodegradable? Could we use local
ecological materials?
use biodegradable materials
from renewable sources
materials&processes
5
1
2
6
4
8
7
seealsocards:
LOCAL SOURCING
& SUPPLY
Do we consider locally sourced
materials and resources?
Could we favour local customers
segments? Could offer complete
transparency to our customers?
Could we use local currencies for our
products or services?
work with what is
locally available
materials&processes
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2
9
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2
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37. Utiliser les principes du vivant;
Pour déterminer le système autour de
quatre objets suivants:
- Casque
- Vélo;
- Cuisine;
- Choix de votre table;
Proposez une innovation systémique et
Expliquez comment vous avez intégré les
principes du vivant.
Moment pratique:
40. Une démarche multi-étapes et multi-critères
Eutrophisation
Toxicité
Impact
Consommation d’énergie non renouvelable
Consommation de ressources rares
Effet de Serre
Acidification
Ozone troposphérique
Ecotoxicité
Critèresd’Impact
Etapes du Cycle de Vie
41. Matériaux renouvelables
(32%)
Sans matériaux dangereux
(PVC, plomb, …).
Site certifié ISO 14001
Assemblage sans collage
Peinture en poudre sans COV
Réduction poids /
volume
Emballage éco-
conçu
Fabrication à
proximité clients /
Trajets optimisés
Durabilité (fiable, solide,
composant amovibles et
remplaçables, …)
Séparabilité des
matériaux facile
Recyclage à 99%
Pièces identifiées
pour faciliter le tri
Exemple de
la démarche
de
47. La peau du requin évite la résistance à l’eau et est
anti bactérienne
Multifonctionnalité
48.
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51.
52.
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OPT FOR
TRANSPAREN
CY
Do we know the environmental
and social conditions under which
our resources are sourced and
produced?
Could we give total transparency
about our products to clients? Are
our materials conflict free?
build transparency in your
products and services &
demand traceable resources
from your suppliers
products&services
9
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2
2
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8
6
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DO MORE
WITH LESS
Can we achieve the same
function with less materials? Can
we use lighter materials? Can we
re-shape our product so it needs
less material?
Could we maybe replace our
products with a service ?
fit the form to the function
products&services
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2
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7
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seealsocards:
MINIMIZE USE OF
ENERGY & WATER
Do we know where most energy and
water is used in the life cycle of our
products? Do we monitor energy and
water usage in our activities?
Could we reduce our unit price to
customers through our savings? Could
we help our customers reduce their
water and energy usage? Could we
work with our partners to help reduce
theirs?
minimize the quantity of energy
& water used anywhere in your
ecosystem
materials&processes
1
1
2
1
8
3
2
7
seealsocards:
RE-CYCLE ENERGY
& WATER
Do we re-use our ‘waste’ energy or
water in-house? Do we have an idea
of how much we could re-cycle?
Could our neighbouring businesses
or partners re-use it? Could we use
water in a closed loop? Could we
recover rain water for a specific
usage?
re-cycle your own or others’
excess energy & water
materials&processes
2
1
2
4
2
1
1
60. 7
seealsocards:
USE RENEWABLE
ENERGY
Do we buy renewable or carbon neutral
energy from our energy supplier? Do we
know much a renewable energy
installation would cost?
Could we invest in a renewable energy
system? Could we cooperate with
neighbouring companies to invest in a
renewable energy system? What about
our distribution channels?
use renewable or carbon neutral
energy sources
materials&processes
3
1
2
4
6
1
7
seealsocards:
NO TOXIC
SUBSTANCES
Do we avoid toxic substances in our
products? Do we use non-toxic
substances (cleaning products) in
our activities? Do we comply with all
relevant regulation to reduce risks
and costs?
Could we find water-based and
organic alternatives for the toxic
substances we use? Could our
partners help us?
use water as a primary solvent
for your products and activities
materials&processes
4
1
2
8
5
9
61. 7
seealsocards: THINK
PRODUCT-AS-
A-SERVICE
What service is our product offering to our
customers? Can we be a service company?
Can we reduce environmental impact through
better life cycle thinking?
Could we offer a leasing service rather than
selling our products outright? Does our offer
actually reflects what our clients need/wants?
Could we find an agreement with suppliers to
lease assets from them?
satisfy the needs of your
customer by selling the utility of
a product rather than the
product itself
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INNOVATE, FAIL &
LEARN
How is our attitude towards making
mistakes? Do we allow our mistakes
to make better products and services?
Do we give serendipity a change?
Could we test our new idea's or
initiative more easily in a friendly
niche market? How can we receive
feedback, faster, from our customers?
experiment continuously
& select the fittest ideas
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9
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67. Modified soy proteins perform similarly to byssal
threads …
Providing Superior Strength and
Extraordinary Flexibility
Pas de toxiques et l’eau est le solvant
Columbia Forest Products
PureBond Technology à base de soja,
sans formaldehyde.
69. Calcium carbonate precipitation with bacteria
Séquestration carbone bio assisté
Pict Marc from Broft
www.co2solstock.eu
Sequestering emissions from the
future… & the past
Growing forests won’t be sufficient
71. 7
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cards: OPT FOR
DISASSEMBLY
Do we design our products to be
easily disassembled into their
individual components at the end
of their life? Do we use as little
different kinds of materials as
possible?
Could we take back used
products or components for re-
manufacture (reverse logistics)?
Could our clients disassemble
and re-assemble our products?
design for easy disassembly
and think circular
products&services
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2
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4
7
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cards:
MODULAR
DESIGN
Do we design our products or
services with common building
blocks? Do we simplify our
activities by using common
building blocks?
Could we stimulate our clients to
self-assemble our products in
alternative ways? Could we
create a variety of themes with a
few common building blocks?
use simple and interchangeable
building blocks
products&services
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4
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SUSTAINABL
E
PACKAGING
Do we need packaging? Do we
need a packaging's life-time that
is longer than its contents?
Could we use bio-materials?
Could we propose a reusable
packaging? Could we design our
packaging for alternative use after
its primary function?
use smart packaging
solutions; reduce, reuse and
recycle
products&services
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2
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7
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OPT FOR
REPAIRABILITY
Can our products be easily
repaired? Can our products be
updated once in use? Do we use
common building blocks that can we
easily repaired or replaced? Do we
use products/assets ourselves that
can easily be repaired?
Could we offer a service to help our
clients to repair our products
themselves in an easy way?
opt for maintenance & repair
products&services
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7
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2
73. 7
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cards: ECOLOGICAL
MATERIALS
Do we look for renewable
alternatives for the materials we
use? Do we look for material
sources that are organic? Do we
use water as primary solvent?
Could our products be
biodegradable? Could we use
local ecological materials?
use biodegradable materials
from renewable sources
materials&
processes5
1
2
6
4
8
7
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cards:
LOCAL
SOURCING &
SUPPLY
Do we consider locally sourced
materials and resources?
Could we favour local customers
segments? Could offer complete
transparency to our customers?
Could we use local currencies for
our products or services?
work with what is
locally available
materials&
processes
6
1
2
9
1
2
1
74. 7
seealso
cards:
USE
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
Do we buy renewable or carbon neutral
energy from our energy supplier? Do
we know much a renewable energy
installation would cost?
Could we invest in a renewable energy
system? Could we cooperate with
neighbouring companies to invest in a
renewable energy system? What about
our distribution channels?
use renewable or carbon
neutral energy sources
materials&
processes3
1
2
4
6
1
7
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cards:
NO TOXIC
SUBSTANCES
Do we avoid toxic substances in
our products? Do we use non-
toxic substances (cleaning
products) in our activities? Do we
comply with all relevant regulation
to reduce risks and costs?
Could we find water-based and
organic alternatives for the toxic
substances we use? Could our
partners help us?
use water as a primary
solvent for your products and
activities
materials&
processes
4
1
2
8
5
9
75. 7
seealsocards:
REPLICATE WHAT
WORKS
Have we tried something similar
before? Do we know someone who
has?
Could we find usable examples in other
regions, times or industries? How
about our competitors? Could we
replicate successful innovations from
nature via biomimicry?
copying is learning -
build today on what has been
done successfully before
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2
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0
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2
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7
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USE AND VALUE
DIVERSITY
Do we benefit from the diversity in
skills and competences in our
company or team? Do we have
diversity in the people we work with
like our suppliers? Do we have a
diverse enough customer base?
Could we diversify our product or
service offerings? Could we diversify
to new markets?
diversify skills for problem
solving and creativity
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2
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76. 7
seealsocards: MIMIC
BIOLOGICAL DESIGN
Do we work circular? Do we manage our
activities without using toxics? Do we
use local materials? Do we co co-create
with our clients?
How could we design from patterns to
details? Could we be inspired by the
design of shapes in nature for our
products?
nature is a vast library of
innovative and sustainable
solutions with 3.8 billion years
experience in R&D
products&services
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2
1
2
7
1
7
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MINIMISE ENERGY &
WATER USE FOR
YOUR CUSTOMERS
Do we know how much water or
energy is typically used by our
customers when using our products?
How much does this cost them?
Could we help our customers reduce
their water and energy use? Could
we inform them on best practices?
Could we deliver a service rather
than a product?
help your customers reduce water &
energy consumption
products&services
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2
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6
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81. Ecolizer 2.0
Développé par l’OVAM
Outil spécifiquement destiné aux
designers/concepteurs
Compromis :
Facilité et rapidité d’utilisation
Evaluation environnementale multi étapes et
multicritères (19) du matériau avec possibilité de
comparaison grâce à l’emploi de la méthode du
score unique.
82. Une couleur = une cat. de matériaux
Métaux ferreux/ non-ferreux, plastique, bois, Papier + Packaging, matériaux de constructions, produits
chimique
Un matériau
Impact global de la production de chaque
(sous-produit de) matériau
83.
84. Une couleur = une cat. de matériaux
Métaux ferreux/ non-ferreux, plastique, bois, Papier + Packaging, matériaux de constructions, produits
chimique
Un matériau
Impact global de la production de
chaque (sous-produit de) matériau
Impact des procédés techniques de
fabrication
Impact du recyclage
Impact du traitement en fin de vie
87. Résumé des outils
• Principes de résilience (pour la co-
création);
• Whole System Design;
• Le cycle de vie en éco-conception;
• L’Ecolizer
• Cradle to Cradle
• Méthodologie Biomimétique
88. • Regardez les images sur la table
• Regardez ask nature si tablette et
internet.
• Consigne: concevez un casque
en tenant compte des principes
du vivant (ceux à votre
disposition)
Moment très pratique
89. Production Abrv.
Quantité
kg
indicateur
pour 1kg
Résultat
Enveloppe Polypropilene recyclable PP 0,3 276 82,8
Coque Carton 0,1 150 15
Corps Polystyrène Recyclé EPS 0,1 75 7,5
Sangles Nylon Polyamide PA 0,04 756 30,24
Peinture Laque acrylique aqueuse 0,01 205 2,05
Total hors FDV 137,59
Fin de vie
Recyclage PP PP 0,3 -251 -75,3
Traitement Nylon PA 0,04 38 1,52
Traitement EPS 0,1 40 4
Traitement Carton 0,11 20 2,2
TOTAL 70,01
Au Gramme 0,12729091
SCORE 12,7
Production Abrv.
Quantité
kg
indicateur
pour 1kg
Résultat
Enveloppe Polychlorure de Vinyle PVC 0,1 220 22
Corps Polystyrène EPS 0,1 384 38,4
Sangles Nylon Polyamide PA 0,04 756 30,24
Peinture Peinture Alkyde 0,01 393 3,93
Total hors FDV 94,57
Fin de vie
Recyclage EPS EPS 0,12 -363 -43,56
Traitement PVC PVC 0,13 34 4,42
Traitement Nylon PA 0,04 38 1,52
TOTAL 56,95
Au Gramme 0,2278
SCORE 22,7
CRATONI
Meteor MV23
250g
ABUS
Performance
550g
Comparatif Casques avec Ecolizer
90. Production Abrv.
Quantité
kg
indicateur
pour 1kg
Résultat
Enveloppe Polypropilene recyclable PP 0,3 276 82,8
Coque Carton 0,1 150 15
Corps Polystyrène Recyclé EPS 0,1 75 7,5
Sangles Nylon Polyamide PA 0,04 756 30,24
Peinture Laque acrylique aqueuse 0,01 205 2,05
Total hors FDV 137,59
Fin de vie
Recyclage PP PP 0,3 -251 -75,3
Traitement Nylon PA 0,04 38 1,52
Traitement EPS 0,1 40 4
Traitement Carton 0,11 20 2,2
TOTAL 70,01
Au Gramme 0,12729091
SCORE 12,7
Production Abrv. Quantité kg
indicateur
pour 1kg
Résultat
Enveloppe Acrylonitrile butadiène styrène ABS 0,27 431 116,37
Corps Polystyrène EPS 0,12 384 46,08
Sangles Nylon Polyamide PA 0,04 756 30,24
Peinture Peinture Alkyde 0,01 393 3,93
Total hors FDV 196,62
Fin de vie
Recyclage PP ABS 0,18 -406 -73,08
Traitement Nylon PA 0,04 38 1,52
Traitement EPS EPS 0,12 40 4,8
TOTAL 129,86
Au Gramme 0,23610909
SCORE 23,6
BERN LENNOX
440g
ABUS
Performance
550g
Comparatif Casques avec Ecolizer