8 Useful Sustainable and Circular Design Tools
Leyla Acaroglu
Sustainability & Circular Economy Provocateur, FRSA, UNEP Champion of the Earth, Designer, Sociologist, TED Speaker, Linkedin Instructor. Founder DisruptDesign.co, UnSchools.co, CircularFutures.co & SwivelSkills.com
Are you interested in more ways for sustainability can be integrated into the design of products as services?
There are many new tools coming online (more than I can keep up with!) that support this critical part of the circular economy, so I've put together eight that are worth exploring to see if they work for you in speeding up the adaptation of the circular economy through design.
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1. The Circular Design Strategy Wheel
The Circular Design Strategy Wheel is a beautiful open-source collection of systemic design strategies to accelerate the circular economy. I love this tool!
2. Sustainable Design Handbook
The Sustainable Design Handbook is a sustainability guide for anyone involved in the design and production of physical things. It includes a range of industry-specific case studies and design principles.
3. The European Union's Circular Design Tools
A series of practical tools, the European Union’s Circular Design Tools are used by designers and business leaders to establish and advance circular and sustainable design.
4. Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies
Quick Guide to Sustainable Design Strategies is a quick guide that I made to show the suite of sustainable design strategies that can be applied to any product design to elevate its environmental performance.
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5. Biomimicry DesignLens
Biomimicry DesignLens shares that life’s principles are design lessons from nature, based on the recognition that life on Earth is interconnected and interdependent. This helps to provide a new perspective to approach design.
6. The 2030 Carbon Calculator
The 2030 Calculator is an online calculator that can be used to assess the footprint of your products and then make informed decisions around the design.
They explain "the tool enables users to create product value chains by mapping the included materials, processes, and transports by using a combination of company specific activity data and secondary data."
7. FOOTPRINTCALC
The FOOTPRINTCAL tool is a free online product footprint calculator for assessing the environmental impact of products you do need a basic LCA understanding to carry out the assessment (you can take my intro course here to learn about it!).
8. Good.Lab Product Footprint Calculator
This Good.Lab tool is a fee-based online assessment tool. It offers product emissions, footprint and life cycle data and appears to also offer ESG and other environmental assessment and reporting tools.
Please note: I have not tested all of these tools so am not validating their data or UX effectiveness!
This is a very insightful post. LCA is playing a very important role in the sustainability domain. Sustainability 101 is coming up with their extensive bootcamp on LCA. Please email us at [email protected] to know more.
Wellbeing & Sustainability Consultant: Personal, Community, Business
9 个月Some great tools here Leyla Acaroglu A great resource
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10 个月Anna Taws
Service design | Growth & Innovation | Systemic change | Curious about human behaviour
10 个月This is fantastic! Thank you Leyla Acaroglu! I may have just fallen in love with the circular design strategy wheel. Can't wait to dig deeper! Cecilia Nilsson Emma Beecken Manilla Shillingford ? Ajla Cano Malin Bryntesson Lise Bergqvist