Volvo Cars and iPoint systems act jointly in improving availability of and accessibility to life cycle information flows. Better quality of results, specific for each product by use of real primary data sources. Jessica...
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How to build a sustainable car?
What are the challenges for the implementation of Sustainable Product Development in the automotive industry? The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management of the University of Graz, AT and the...
The Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2019
The overwhelming response on our Sustainability & Compliance Trends Survey 2018 encouraged us to continue our research to keep our fingers on the pulse. We have designed a new survey to ask the sustainability and...
Sustainability and Compliance Trends – What Kept Companies Busy in 2018?
At the beginning of 2018, iPoint started to conduct a survey on Sustainability and Compliance Trends 2018 – and the response was overwhelming: More than 450 participants from different industries provided information...
Wasting food: a brief guide.
With the human population on this little planet of ours expected to grow to over 9 billion in the next few decades, food security is being consistently identified as a pressing problem. That might sound Malthusian, but...
The TTIP: Partnership or legal straitjacket?
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership(TTIP) currently under negotiation between the US and the EU has been billed as a free trade deal. And indeed, for the last couple of hundred years it has been clear...
Resource Efficiency: Measuring and Managing Metabolism
Last week’s offering from this blog flew under the banner of “The Circular Economy” – a concept so broad that it might well have been labelled “sustainability”. Like sustainability, the idea of the circular economy is...
From footprints to handprints: clutching at straws?
A couple of years ago TIME magazine rated Handprints among the “10 ideas that are changing your life”. This statement would tend to suggest that either your life is pretty stagnant or that maybe it is worth examining...
Beyond Heavy Oil – 8 Future-Proof Cargo Vessel Technologies
Think global, buy local? The idea of limiting one’s personal consumption to national, regional or local boundaries is an excellent way to reduce personal carbon footprints and help establish small, human-scale...
Sustainability Triangle? One Pillar Missing!
There is a significant growing concern in several arenas that the three-pillar model of sustainability, consisting of environmental, economic and social dimensions, may be overlooking something of fundamental importance...