Sustainable product development (SPD) is a method for product development that incorporates a Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development (FSSD), also known as The Natural Step (TNS) framework. As the demand for products continues to increase around the world and environmental factors like climate change increasingly affect policies - and thus business - it becomes more and more of a competitive advantage for businesses to consider sustainability aspects early on in the product development process.[1]

SPD is not limited to the actual product development, but also the product design. Green design which is a part of SPD has two main goals: the prevention of waste and to minimize environmental impact. Environmental impact involves: deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and resource/material management, etc. The early stages of design tend to be the areas that effect the environment the worst, the extraction and refining.[2][3]

After the next 30 years, the natural resources just gets greater and greater and the population just keeps on going up and the increase in global food demand will be increasingly in high demand. Achieving sustatinabilty is very doable as long as we all get help within us.

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https://www.purdueglobal.edu/blog/student-life/45-sustainability-resources/

https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/

References

  1. ^ Mike Gordon; Chris Musso; Eric Rebentisch & Nisheeth Gupta (January 2010). "The path to successful new products". McKinsey Quarterly. Businesses with the best product-development track records stand apart from their less-successful peers in three crucial ways
  2. ^ Weenen, J.C. Van (1995). "Towards Sustainable Product Development" (PDF). Journal of Cleaner Production. 3 (1–2): 95–100. doi:10.1016/0959-6526(95)00062-J.
  3. ^ Wilhelm, Kevin (2014). Making Sustainability Stick. Pearson Education.
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