1. Understanding concepts and definitions

You want to implement an eco-design, sustainable design, or eco-innovation approach in your organization, or at least understand the ins and outs of these concepts. The first step is, of course, to fully grasp the different concepts and how they fit together in order to determine the initial objectives of your approach.

The Eco-innovation and Sustainable Design fact sheet – Think Life Cycle [FIC 0425] is a good introduction, placing these concepts within the recent regulatory and institutional framework. It proposes six key principles...