What is sustainable design?
That perfect harmony between profit, the environment, and the people you serve.
Aligning with People
Your people: your employees, your customers, and your community. Insure that you’re serving them all.
Benefiting the Planet
Go farther than doing less harm. Discover ways you can contribute to a better future for all species.
Maintaining Profitability
You can’t do good if you can’t stay in business. Use efficiencies gained to improve your bottom line.
Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs.
UN World Commission on Environment and Development
Discovering your purpose
You want your business to achieve more than just profitability. But it’s not always clear where to plant your flag, and how to determine where you fit in. The problems we face are daunting! Using a framework for evaluating your goals and aligning them with nature, I can help you find your place and your people. Bonus: your business becomes more resilient to disruption in the process.
Carbon-Neutral Design
Can you really reduce or even entirely eliminate your environmental impacts? Yes! Using Life Cycle Analysis, I can help you discover the most environmentally costly areas of your business, and work with you to eliminate, reduce, and offset as much as possible. By employing Systems Thinking as a framework for examining the total product impacts, we can lower your footprint in a holistic way – no greenwashing required.
The Natural Step
I use a method called The Natural Step, paired with a few other tools, to tackle sustainability problems. This process involves 4 steps: Envisioning the future you want to see, analyzing the current situation, discovering creative solutions to bridge the gap, and prioritizing action step. This open-ended framework can be applied to problems of any size and scope — whether you’re looking to transform a single product or an entire organization, it can work for you.
