Lifecycle Analysis Reflection

I found the 6 short videos to be extremely insightful in creating awareness of contributing to a greener environment.  The videos proved insightful in conveying multiple strategies that should be implemented in order to help create a greener world.  We must go out of our way as designers to be mindful of the impacts that we are making on the environment at all stages of a products lifecycle.  From the very beginning in choosing which materials to encompass all the way to how the products are disposed of or re-used.

several other strategies that we must be mindful of in order to be ethical and sustainable is the reduction in parts where possible, green material selection, alternative end of life strategies such as repair or upgrade and overall energy efficient design.  We are reminded that it is important to understand that we must not just be mindful of these strategies but we must be vigilant enough to incorporate them in all aspects of our designs.     

We must also have a good sense of which strategies are to be implemented where appropriate, to refrain from doing more harm than good, which would defy the whole purpose of trying to be greener.  For example reducing materials in products which are intended to be repaired at end of life, which may in fact require the product reach that stage faster.