Consulting
We can help you operationalize greener product design in your organization. It starts with bringing life cycle thinking and a whole product systems approach to the beginning of the design process. The result is innovative, greener products, cost savings by reducing re-engineering and greater competitive advantage!
Environmental Performance Training, Audit & Benchmark Program Integrating environmental impact assessment into your product development process
Our Environmental Performance Audit, Benchmark & Training Program has been designed to assist organizations to start integrating and operationalizing environmental impact assessment into your product development process.
Each program is customized to address the needs and goals of your organization and can include any one, two or all three components, In any order.
- 1. Education & Training
- Workshops
- Day 1: SM's Foundational Workshop: Mastering Ecodesign and LCA Strategies and Techniques
- Day 2: Generate new product concepts - brainstorm, model, compare and report
(Optional, using reference products from Audit & Benchmark)
- Executive and group presentations
- getting everyone's mind thinking 'sustainably'
- Workshops
- 2. Sustainable Minds Subscriptions & Support
- Flexible options to meet your organizations needs
- 3. Environmental Performance Audit & Benchmark
- Understand product design & development workflow
- Benchmark . create reference products: model, assess, report
Ecodesign & LCA support
Most of your support requests will be regarding questions about how to model or calculate an input, interpreting results, etc. i.e. assistance with conducting a life cycle assessment. This subscription gives you access to our LCA and services personnel . at a discounted rate from our standard consulting services . to work with you on these issues.
Custom impact factors
When you need an impact factor(s) that we don.t have, contact us through the .Support. link with that request. We will contact you regarding options for estimation using existing impact factors, and/or the timing to add, and if there will be costs associated with creating the new impact factor(s).
Contact us today. We'll take the time to learn more about you, your company and how we can help address your sustainable design challenges. Call 617 401-2269, or contact us.