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Taking Care of Business
By Joel Makower
As I'm writing this, we're hours away from the launch of Greener By Design 2009, and a lot of people are asking me, in effect, "Why would you do a conference on green product design during a recession?"
It's a good question, but a bit misguided -- that is, it's based on ages-old assumptions that environmentally preferable products are, by nature, a costly luxury for both producers and consumers. It assumes that in order to be green, a product must make sacrifices, or cost more, or be otherwise undesirable. There's some justification to these assumptions: In the early days of green products, this was indeed the case.
But there's a deeper rationale for integrating green thinking into product design, manufacturing, use, and disposal: It's become an expectation in some sectors. That's certainly true in the information technology world, for example. Customers -- at least corporate and institutional customers -- expect that electronic equipment will use less energy, contain minimal toxic components, and will be easy to recycle, if not actually to upgrade and keep in service. It's pointless to make an IT product these days that doesn't have a green story to tell ... Read More
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