Applying Lifecycle Engineering Principles to Your Everyday Purchases

You're likely very familiar with the “cradle-to-grave” mindset, although you might not know it by that name. Some call it "planned obsolescence." We've been designing and making practically everything with a “buy it, use it, throw it away when we're done with it” attitude for a very long time now. As we all know, that's now catching up to us.

Lifecycle engineering challenges that mindset and instead looks at all products (grown, manufactured) from a “cradle-to-cradle” perspective. In the “5 Questions” on-demand module, we've reduced lifecycle engineering into five simple, yet very powerful, questions that every single person can ask before they buy anything