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Integrating Environment and Technology: Design for Environment (DFE)

Integrating Environment and Technology: Design for Environment (DFE). Author: Braden R. Allenby Summarized by: Tony Chen Critiqued by: Chun-Yip Yeung. Recognizing The Problem. The Past: Simple problems Specific, direct solutions. Treating symptoms, not the disease. Now:

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Integrating Environment and Technology: Design for Environment (DFE)

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  1. Integrating Environment and Technology: Design for Environment (DFE) Author:Braden R. Allenby Summarized by:Tony Chen Critiqued by: Chun-Yip Yeung

  2. Recognizing The Problem • The Past: • Simple problems • Specific, direct solutions. • Treating symptoms, not the disease. • Now: • Relationship between human economic activity and the environment. • The problem is our systems

  3. Principles for Integration • Systems-based methods • Multidisciplinary approach • Focus on technology • Responsible policies (Gov. and firms) • Flexible policies that reflect research

  4. Classes of Goods: • Low-design/high-material • Packaging • Personal care goods • High-design/low-material • Cars • Computers

  5. Designing For the Environment • Factor environmental concerns in the design process • Treat DFE as a module in existing procedure: “Design for X”

  6. Benefits of DFE • Environmental issues treated as strategic and competitive, not simply “overhead” • Please environmentally-conscious consumers

  7. Implementing DFE • Focus on smaller components of DFE • Design for Disassembly • Design for Refurbishment • Design for Component Recyclability • Design for Materials Recyclability • LCA (Life Cycle Analysis) • Gather data on environmental impacts • Put data on DFE Matrix System

  8. DFE Matrix System

  9. Steps in implementing DFE • Scoping • Data Gathering • Data Translation

  10. Testing the DFE system • Other issues encountered • The environmental effects happen at material extraction, not the manufacturing or consumer life cycle stages. • Ethical issues • Equity issues

  11. Critique Outline • Strengths • Evaluation of Matrix Generation • Conclusion

  12. Strengths • Provided basis to develop a systematic approach to manage environmental issues. • Provided Reasons for firms to comply with this systematic approach. • Suggested a comprehensive approach--“treating the disease, not the symptoms.”

  13. Evaluation of Matrix Generation - 1 • Issues with the Matrix • Both Level of Concern and Uncertainty Level are subjective—varies from person to person.

  14. Evaluation of Matrix Generation - 2 • Feasibility – Part 1 • Data Gathering

  15. Data Gathering

  16. Evaluation of Matrix Generation - 3 • Feasibility – Part 2 • Data Verification • Legal Responsibility

  17. Evaluation of Matrix Generation - 4 • Feasibility – Part 3 • Tools to Translate Data • Analysis of Results

  18. Conclusion • Although DFE is still in infant stage, it is a start of the solution.

  19. Questions

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