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Life Cycle Thinking The Locus Research blog about sustainability, applied research, design and education.
September 2008
/ September 15 2008
This year’s CEO Summit set out to explore how New Zealand companies can make the most of sustainable design and business opportunities with examples given by several leading international organizations and a group of local companies committed to sustainability.
For a full outline of the Better By Design Conference please visit www.betterbydesign.org.nz
Key presentations were give by: Read more
/ September 9 2008
Professor Michael Braungart the co-author of "Cradle to Cradle - remaking the way we make things" visited New Zealand over the last week to keynote at the Better by Design CEO summit. We were fortunate enough, along with the support of MFE, SBN, and DINZ to create an opportunity for him to talk the day after this to a group of New Zealand's leading designers and design teams. Read more
/ September 9 2008
If I needed to summarise my comments with one sentence I’d say “Cradle to Cradle is great but not a panacea”.
The below is a limited analysis of “why”, only for those who have some time to kill through reading some of my rantings. I am critical, sceptical and talk (write?) too much by default due to being a PhD student. I really do think Cradle to Cradle is great. But not a panacea!
In do feel myself lucky as well since I had the chance to listen to Prof. Braungart’s presentation on cradle to cradle design. Read more
/ September 8 2008
I was lucky enough to be a part of the select audience at Michael Braungart’s extra presentation on Tuesday. Three points have reverberated in my mind since his presentation on Cradle to Cradle design thinking: Read more