Lowell Center for Sustainable Production’s Framework for Alternative Assessment

Designing a truly sustainable product is a huge challenge in modern society. Nevertheless, many companies are striving to continuously improve the sustainability of their products as consumer demand for safe, healthy, and green products is rising. …

Greening Consumer Electronics - Executive Summary

This report features seven electronics companies (two major consumer electronics companies, and five component suppliers) that have moved beyond compliance with regulatory mandates and engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most… …

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Managing Chemical Ingredient Disclosure Across the Supply Chain

Presentations include: Daniel Paska, Sony Ericsson - Sony Ericsson – Managing Substances in products Brian Martin, Seagate Technology - Seagate’s Full Disclosure Requirement for Suppliers …

Apple’s chemicals policy

Apple Inc.’s commitment to re-engineer all of its products worldwide to remove elemental forms of bromine and chlorine marks an important landmark in the electronics sector. …

Avalon Natural Products: Consciousness in Cosmetics

Since its founding in 1989, California based Avalon Natural Products has been a leader in making cosmetics from natural and organic ingredients. Avalon sells mainly in the organic and natural foods market, through stores such as Whole Foods and Wild… …

Interface Fabric: Benign by Design

Terratex PLA represents Interface’s latest innovation on the company’s journey towards sustainability. Launched in 2004 as the first commercial interior fabric made from 100 percent renewable biopolymers, Terratex PLA is used in window… …

H&M: Fashion Chemistry

You’ve got to have your supply chain aligned to manage chemicals in retail fashion. In this fast moving industry, designs sell out in six months. With this high turnover rate, fashion companies like H&M never design the same product twice.… …

Herman Miller: Healthy Chairs

Long before green design became popular, a culture that would nourish it had formed at Herman Miller. Product design at Herman Miller has long been seen in the light of constraints, problem solving, and long-term value. The designer Charles Eames,… …

Dell Inc.: Mainstreaming the Precautionary Principle

In the mid 1990’s, Dell shipped its first computers and displays free of a host of toxic brominated flame-retardants. Since then, Dell has worked with its customers, regulators, investors and environmental advocates to develop a broader list of… …

Premier: Choosing Safer Products Helps Improve the Health of Communities

The Premier healthcare alliance is committed to protecting the environment and maintaining a safe and healthy climate for patients, workers and communities. Premier and its members are leaders in the industry, setting the bar for environmentally… …