Design and the Environment

Abstract

Reports on the Management Roundtable′s Second Annual Congress on Enovironmentally‐consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From Best Practices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. States that environmental issues are not a fad, and that environmental factors should be integrated into the manufacture and design of products. Investigates the key issues in the implementation of a corporate environmental programme including cost and time. Examines a few working examples of corporate environmental programmes and concludes that these work. Suggests that implementing such programmes is the way forward.

Citation

Tong, G. (1994), "Design and the Environment", World Class Design to Manufacture, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 39-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/09642369210049960