What is a "Green" Product? [Website]
Type: WebsiteAuthor/Source:Center for Energy & Environmental Recources, The University of Texas at Austin
Every product will generate an environmental footprint and only rarely will one design alternative be unambiguously environmentally preferable. Designers will continually face trade-offs between different environmental impacts, yet must ultimately make design decisions. Further, designers must reconcile environmental performance with cost and other criteria. Informing these decisions will require a new set of tools that designers and engineers will need to master.
Environmental Product Evaluation Tools: