Metropolis Offers Up the Seven Levels of Green-ness to be Obtained for Product Design Nirvana

Metropolis has just published a piece by Martin C. Pedersen that could well serve as the definitive guide to how a green product will and/or should live out its life cycle, if designed in the way that meets all the various standards or conceptions of what makes “green” well, “green.” It’s called “7 Steps in the Lifecycle of a Green Product.” From the get go, they introduce the idea that, to create means leaving something in your wake (i.e. there’s no such thing as some product that won’t leave at least trace remnants behind). So, understanding that, they seek, in a series of seven (and then some) individual pieces about what a company or designer can do to minimize the lasting physical existence of what they’re making. It’s pretty interesting, even if you aren’t in a field that doesn’t regularly mold things into stuff.

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