Book recommendation #1, Made to stick: Why some ideas survive and others die, by Chip Heath, and Dan Heath

• Publisher: Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 613 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1551-3777
• DOI: 10.1002/ieam.5630050231

✦ Synopsis

design, stressing pollution prevention, and the environmental performance of products over their whole life cycle. The text covers key product issues such as best strategies to achieve environmental quality, analysis of resource distribution over a life cycle, extension of life considerations, and recovery opportunities at the end of product life cycle.

After introducing the concepts of sustainable development, industrial ecology, and design for environment in the first chapter, the remaining 16 chapters in the book are divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on life cycle theory, design and management considerations, and cost analysis. The authors pay particular attention to environmental strategies for achieving eco-efficiency and integration of "green" aspects into various phases of the product life cycle. Part 2 addresses product design methods and explores how the integration of life cycle considerations could transform current practices. Part 3 provides several case studies that illustrate the potential of the approaches and methods proposed by the authors, as well as analysis of some of the problems involved in developing eco-compatible products.