Sustainability Innovation in Business
Completion requirements
Sustainability innovators create new products and services designed to solve problems created by the collision of economic growth, population growth, and natural systems. Read this chapter on the changing conditions for business and how sustainable innovation concepts can be applied to deliver goods and services to create a healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous global community.
What is the definition of sustainability innovation? How do sustainability design criteria differ from conventional business approaches?
Energy and Materials: New Challenges in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century and Limits to the Conventional Growth Model
Key Takeaways
- The world is composed of energy and materials, and how we design business activity defines the ways we use energy and materials.
- There is growing concern that current patterns of use for energy and materials are not sustainable. Waste streams are the focus of much of this concern.