Sustainable design is a comprehensive, holistic approach to creating products and systems that are environmentally benign, socially equitable, and economically viable: environmentally, such that the design offers obvious or measurable environmental benefits; socially, so that it fills the needs of everyone involved in its production, use and disposal or reuse; and economically, so that the design is competitive in the marketplace. Fuel-efficient cars, solar-heated buildings, clean-burning power plants, recyclable packaging and low-voltage lighting are dramatic examples of products that help balance consumer needs with good environmental stewardship. Yet realistically, all products have the potential to be designed with sustainability in mind if engineers really think about making products better while using materials that positively affect the environment.

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