Product and
Circular Economy
Product Design
Process Design and Alternatives
100

Where of system on earth does modern manufacturing of products get its materials from?

from the lithosphere

100

What technical specialty on chemical transformations with little or no toxicity?

Green Chemistry

100

What is the word for designing in environmentally responsible ways?

Eco-Efficiency

200

What studies material and energy flows through an industrial system, shifting them from a linear model to a closed-loop model. 

Industrial Ecology

200

What does DFE stand for?

Design for the Environment

200

What did I name as the central feature of industrial ecology?

Life-Cycle Thinking

300

What are two separate nutrients/circle in Cradle to cradle design?

Biological nutrients/cycle and Technical nutrients/cycle.

300

What kind of analysis is used to calculate and evaluate embodied energy at each stage of a product's life cycle?

Formal Life Cycle Analysis

300

What do system thinkers do before the designers start working on product designs?

Define the Product Function

400

What is a method for measuring a product's impact on the environment throughout its entire lifecycle?

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

400

What kind of design are Velcro and Propeller Blades an example of? Hint: it starts with a B!

Biomimetic Design

400

What is the method we discussed for capturing and using process-heat energy?

Combined Heat & Power (CHP)

500

What is "a concept that humans must rapidly reduce their consumption of resources to one-fourth of the current levels in order not to exceed the planet’s carrying capacity"?

Factor 4

500

Mimicry of natural ecosystems is also the basis of what design philosophy?

Cradle to Cradle

500

What is the name for the strategy of reducing the amount of material required to make a product?

Dematerialization

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