L’éco-conception en action… retours d’expérience. PILOT. LCA software | Sustainable Minds.
Human-Centered Design Toolkit Developed with IDE and Gates Foundation - Case Studies - IDEO. For years, businesses have used human-centered design to develop innovative solutions. Why not apply the same approach to overcome challenges in the nonprofit world? This project, funded by International Development Enterprise (IDE) as part of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, sought to provide NGOs and social enterprises with the tools to do just that. IDEO, in collaboration with nonprofit groups ICRW and Heifer International, developed the HCD Toolkit to help international staff and volunteers understand a community’s needs in new ways, find innovative solutions to meet those needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.
The HCD Toolkit was designed specifically for NGOs and social enterprises that work with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The HCD toolkit has been used by organizations throughout the developing world, including Acumen Fund, AyurVAID, Heifer International, ICRW, IDE, Micro Drip, and VisionSpring.
_Business_Ecodesign_Tools.pdf (Objet application/pdf) Créativité. 806_1.pdf (Objet application/pdf) ACV. Life Cycle Assessment - Green Design Institute. Life cycle assessment of products, processes, and services remains a fundamental part of our research. Life cycle assessment is a tool to analyze the impacts of a process, product, or system over the entire life cycle from raw materials extraction, parts manufacturing, use, and end-of-life. Much of our LCA work utilizes our free, internet-based economic input-output life cycle assessment tool (EIO-LCA, available at www.eiolca.net), which allows general users to perform simple, quick, and free life cycle assessments. It has been used more than 1 million times to facilitate LCA by people around the world.
Listed below are links to short one-page research summaries in PDF format. On-going Projects Previous Research Summaries (no longer funded or being actively pursued) Hybrid Models for Environmental Life Cycle Assessment -- H. Previous Research Summaries (in HTML format) The Living Principles | Tools. Eco-indicator 99: life cycle impact assessment and ecodesign method. DTIE SCP Branch: Sustainable Product Design. Sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is about promoting resource and energy efficiency, sustainable infrastructure, and providing access to basic services, green and decent jobs and a better quality of life for all.
The implementation of SCP as an integrated approach helps to achieve overall development plans, reduce future economic, environmental and social costs, strengthen economic competitiveness and reduce poverty. Sustainable consumption and production is defined as “the use of services and related products, which respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life while minimising the use of natural resources and toxic materials as well as the emissions of waste and pollutants over the life cycle of the service or product so as not to jeopardise the needs of future generations.” Norwegian Ministry of Environment, Oslo Symposium, 1994. Sustainable consumption has been recognized as an integral element of sustainable development and an issue of paramount importance. D4S - Design for Sustainability. Product | Sustainable Minds.