Green Options » product design http://greenoptions.com/tag/product-design Posts tagged 'product design' Mon, 12 May 2008 13:39:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Why Can’t Every Product be Sustainable? http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/why-cant-every-product-be-sustainable/ http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/why-cant-every-product-be-sustainable/#comments Mon, 12 May 2008 13:39:44 +0000 Aaron Szymanski http://sustainablog.org/2008/05/12/why-cant-every-product-be-sustainable/ timberland-boots.jpgIf you go to the mass retailers today, it’s likely that you’re going to pay more for sustainably designed, developed, manufactured and shipped products. In some cases, like my Timberland boots, the products will be superior in all ways that matter and the sustainable attributes will be an added-value. But in most cases the product will either be harder to find, quicker to wear-out or less aesthetically pleasing than the less-sustainable competition.

It’s tempting to point out the many examples beyond my Timberlands, which are sustainable without the sacrifice or the bloated price tag. Sure, they exist but they are the minority–a miniscule struggling minority. If we all start to question why, we can shift every product manufactured towards a more sustainable approach. Every product.

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