Product Ecology: New Online Green Product Design Tool
September 7, 2010 | Levent OZLER
WSP Environment & Energy (WSP) formed a multidisciplinary team of software engineers, web-designers and environmental specialists to work closely with product designers, sustainability professionals, manufacturers and design educators to address life cycle thinking for product developers.
The result is Product Ecology - an online environmental assessment tool purpose built for designers and related professionals.
John Gertsakis, Senior Sustainability Associate with WSP, believes that designers and manufacturers are ready for pragmatic DIY tools as opposed to high cost consultants.
"Industrial designers and product engineers have a growing appetite for web-based tools that are driven by good science and trustworthy environmental data," he said.
"And while environmental software is not new, there is a major gap in affordable tools that are suited to designers.
Product Ecology is focussed on mainstreaming EcoDesign and life cycle thinking, so we've created a uncomplicated online tool to transform designers into pragmatic environmental champions.
More than anything we want product development professionals to realise their sustainability strategies."
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