Posted by: sorafferty on: October 3, 2008
There has been a renewed groundswell on local sustainability discussions and actions on food, economics, communication and mobility. The transition towns movement seems to be an amalgamation of a lot of previous strands of grassroots activity. I still see conflicts in the localism vs. globalism strands of debate. I can’t help but feel the localist [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: September 30, 2008
During the London Design Festival I took a break from the city to visit Brighton and the 360 Degrees “Charting New Territory in Sustainable Design Education” seminar. This was part of the DEEDS program of events spread out over the weekend.
There was always the risk that it would be a spiral of navel-gazing among design [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: July 17, 2008
Defra has released a progress review of their recently established product and material unit. This is a timely release as it parallels the review of the England waste strategy.
This document combines Defra’s vision product the selected product roadmaps in combination with vision for sustainable procurement, intervention and evidence and assessment.
Their classification of intervention is not [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: July 17, 2008
The European Commission has just launched the new Action Plan on SCP. The action plan aims to be a package of measure that will enable the development of more eco-friendly products while assisting the selection of those products by consumers.
At first glance it seems to offer a degree of coherence to existing policy packages without [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: May 3, 2008
According to ENDS, the European Commission is due to extend the scope and depth of the ecodesign legislation already in place within the EU. It will increase the range of products to include clothing, cleaning products, waste water, furniture and buildings components. This is expected to strengthen the ability of the member states to tackle [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: May 3, 2008
Mobile communications are an interesting focus for sustainable design because they are a convergence of product, user, interaction, experience, UI, service and systems design. I have been interested in the sustainability activity of Nokia for some time now, mainly since they started with the European IPP project. They have now allocated a great deal of [...]
Posted by: sorafferty on: April 26, 2008
The Programme for the Promotion of Ecodesign in the Basque Country 2004-2006 was delivered by IHOBE. It offered a promising development in the area of ecodesign intervention.
The ambitious targets were matched with a number of useful outputs such as a new ecodesign manual, case-studies, a number of support services and a basque-language sustainable products [...]
