This course investigates the major drivers of global agricultural and environmental change associated with the global farm and food system. This includes demography, income growth, biofuels, climate ...

Products, processes, and systems should be designed for performance in a commercial “afterlife". Embedded entropy and complexity must be viewed as an investment when making design choices on recycle, ...

Systems Thinking is a way of looking at the way things are made in the world and understanding how processes influence one another in a larger system. Linear thinking is a narrow way of looking at the ...

As builders grow more interested in sustainable practices and certifications, they’re turning their attention to products with life cycle assessments (LCAs). An LCA offers building design teams a ...

Stroll through any aisle in the grocery store today and it won’t take long to find products that claim to be sustainable. Some brands might profess how much energy was offset to make a product, while ...