Life cycle thinking

Life cycle thinking

Life cycle thinking describes a thought process that considers environmental impacts over the entire life cycle of a product and not just at one point (e.g. manufacturing or recovery). Cradle to cradle garment industry.

The model separate organic materials and technical (metals)

• Biological cycle
• Technical cycle

Recommended Sustainable Design Series

• How to design sustainable
• A product lifecycle assessment approach to sustainable design
• Cradle to cradle an approach to sustainable design
• Biomimicry as nature builds it
• The Natural Step, a framework for sustainable design
• Design With Nature twelve principles on how to approach sustainable design
• Apply System thinking as an approach to sustainable design I
• Apply System thinking as an approach to sustainable design II