IB+Green+design

 =Core. Topic 3. Green Design. = = = "Designing in a way that takes account of the **environmental impact** of the **product** throughout its **life**".

When you throw something "**__away__**" try and remember that "__**away**__" is a place.


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[|Edwin Datchefski] [|Calculate your carbon footprint] [|Green by Design]

[|Tree Hugger]

[|Friends of the earth]

[|Oxfam]

[|Appropriate and intermediate technologies]

[|Alternative technologies]

[|The Nicaraguan rope pump. A case study in successful sustainable design.] The [|story of "stuff".] **Annie Leonard** has some interesting things to say about how we live today.

Key terms linked to this topic.

Designing in relation to materials during processing. || Test yourself [|here]
 * **__Key word or term__** || **__Meaning.__** ||
 * Green design. || Designing in a way that takes account of the environmental impact of the product throughout its life ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Renewable sources. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A category of energy sources including the sun, the wind, the tides, wave motion, hydro energy etc. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Non renewable sources. || A category of energy sources which cannot be reused, energy sources include fossil fuels, such as coal and oil. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Life cycle analysis. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The assessment of the effect a product has on the environment from the initial concept to disposal ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Design for manufacture. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Designing a product to be produced in the most efficient manner possible in terms of time, cost and resources, taking into consideration how the product will be processed, and using the existing skill base to achieve the highest yields possible. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Design for materials. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Design for process. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Designing to enable the product to be manufactured using a specific manufacturing process. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Design for assembly. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This is a process by which products are designed with ease of assembly in mind. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reuse. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Reusing is using an item more than once. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Repair. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The acitivty whereby components of a system are restored to safe operating conditions because of an unpredicted or unforeseen failure. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Reconditioning. || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> To restore something to a functional state, or to a condition resembling the original ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Recycling. || The act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products ||

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