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Links: Eco-Design
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- Carnegie-Mellon University began the Green Design Initiative in 1992 to promote environmentally conscious engineering, product and process design, manufacturing, and architecture
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- Apple "Design for the Environment"
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- The committees mission is to "ensure that environmental considerations are integrated and imbedded into electronics products and processes from design and manufacturing to end of life"
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- Rochester Institute of Technology: Innovative technologies for a sustainable future
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- Web-site of the Design for Sustainability program
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- The Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing (CGDM) encourages multi- disciplinary research and education on environmental management, design for environment and pollution prevention issues in critical industries.
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- A project by the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology and the Institute for Engineering Design at the Vienna University of Technology
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- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Design for the Environment (DfE) Program helps businesses incorporate environmental considerations into the design and redesign of products, processes, and technical and management systems
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- The Centre for Sustainable Design facilitates discussion and research on eco-design and broader sustainability considerations in product and service development.
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- IVF Electronics Design for Environment
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- Tables containing the chemical composition information on Agere Systems' integrated circuits packages.
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Links: LCA / Sustainability
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- Information on the background of Eco-design and LCA, designer tools (Simapro) and the Eco-indicator 99 method
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- Very comprehensive list of links to LCA-related web-sites
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- Links about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), collected and annotated by G. Doka
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- LCA Results on Plastics from Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME)
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- The International Institute for Sustainable Development is advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, Economic Policy, climate change, measurement and indicators, and natural resource management to make development sustainable.
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- The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a coalition of some 150 international companies united by a shared commitment to sustainable development, i.e. environmental protection, social equity and economic growth.
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- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
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- The Factor 10 Institute in France has been created to provide practical support for achieving significant advances in resource productivity in the production and consumption sectors.
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- LCA-center is the Danish centre for competence on LCA. The purpose is to disseminate the knowledge to and the application of LCA and life cycle thinking in private as well as public enterprises.
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Links: Environmental Labelling
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- The Danish organization in charge of the administration of the Nordic and the EU environmental labels (The Swan and the Flower)
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- Swedish TCO Development work with quality certification and environmental labeling of office equipment. TCO-labeling of computers, monitors, and keyboards are known worldwide.
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- Swedish industry has established a Type III environmental declaration programme called the EPD system. It is based on ISO TR 14025. The EPD system is a system for science-based and comparable environmental information open for all products and services to support continuous improvements.
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- The Global Eco-labelling Network (GEN) is a non-profit association of eco-labelling organizations from around the world. These eco-labelling organizations set criteria for and certify products and services with lower environmental burdens and impacts than comparable products with the same function
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- US EPA: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) assists in the purchasing of environmentally preferable products and services.
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- German Environmental Label.
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- Group for Efficient Appliances (GEA): a forum of representatives from National Energy Agencies and Governments working with Industry on Voluntary Informative Activities in the field of Energy Efficient Home Electronics.
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- ENERGY STAR is a government/industry partnership that by promoting energy labelling makes it easy for businesses and consumers to save money and protect the environment.
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Links: Legislation / Public Authorities
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- 'Retsinfo' contains all current Danish legislation and departmental orders (bekendtgørelser)
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- US Environmental Protection Agency
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- The European Environmental Law site.
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- The Danish Environmental Protection Agency
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- The Danish 'Elektronikpanelet' was established 1998 on the initiative of the Danish EPA. It initiates activities within the field of electronics leading to a reduction of the environmental impact from electronics.
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- Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
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- European Topic Center on Waste and Material Flows.
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- The Commission's web pages on Integrated Product Policy. These pages explain what it is, what the Commission has done about it and what is planned in the future.
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Links: Organizations
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- The Electronic Industries Alliance is a federation of Associations and Sectors operating in the electronics industry.
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- Mission: To provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
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- The EEA aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of information to policy making agents and the public.
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- European Commission, DG XI, Environment
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- CEN Environmental Helpdesk (EHD) - has been established to help answer two fundamental questions: Are there relevant environmental aspects in standards ? How can they be dealt with?
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- The European Brominated Flame Retardants Industry Panel: A sector group of CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council)
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- The site has environmental information on plastics
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- Home of the World Resource Institute, Washington
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- European Chemical Industry Home page
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- ECMA is an international industry association founded in 1961 and dedicated to the standardization of information and communication systems.
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- ORGALIME is the European federation of national industrial associations representing the European mechanical, electrical, electronic and metal articles industries.
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- Si2 is an organization of industry-leading silicon systems and tool companies focused on improving productivity and reducing cost in creating and producing integrated silicon systems.
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- The Association of the Swedish IT and Telecom Industry (IT-Företagen) represents companies developing, manufacturing, marketing and servicing IT and telecom products.
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- ITEK: The Danish organization for companies within the IT, Telecommunication, Electronics and Communication industry.
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- ISO: A network of national standards institutes from 140 countries working in partnership with international organizations, governments, industry, business and consumer representatives.
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- IPC (formerly Institute of Interconnecting and Packaging Electronic Circuits): Association Connecting Electronics Industries.
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- EICTA is the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association. It currently represents more than 10.000 European ICT companies.
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Links: Other
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- Car manufacturers component material database (Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Opel, Porsche, VW, Volvo)
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- MatWeb's materiel information database includes thermoplastic and thermoset polymers, metals, alloys and ceramics; plus a growing list of semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials
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- CAS is the producer of the world's largest and most comprehensive databases of chemical information.
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- GreenPack was a Nordic industrial project enhancing the environmental performance of electronics manufacturers and suppliers, and their products.
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- Within the GreenPack project a group of companies and research institutes have joined forces on how to cope with the issue of "Material declaration for electrical- and electronic equipment" in a rational manner. One of the results is a web-based tool to deal with collection of material data.
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