Design and the Environment

Abstract

Reports on the Management Roundtable′s Second Annual Congress on Enovironmentally‐consciuous Design and Manufacturing: From Best Practices to Profit held in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. States that environmental issues are not a fad, and that environmental factors should be integrated into the manufacture and design of products. Investigates the key issues in the implementation of a corporate environmental programme including cost and time. Examines a few working examples of corporate environmental programmes and concludes that these work. Suggests that implementing such programmes is the way forward.