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    Sustainable Design

    Purpose-driven design with a clear profit mandate.

Sustainable Design

We help ambitious consumer brands meet their sustainability goals through rigorous analysis and strategic design innovation.

From inception, our approach connects carbon reduction strategies with customer value, using data to reveal opportunities where profitability and positive impact converge.

Through our program, you’ll gain actionable strategies that swiftly propel your brand beyond the status quo and ignite disruptive, meaningful growth.

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Carbon Baseline

Carbon Baseline

Understanding carbon emissions is essential, but pinpointing where they peak within your value chain is critical. Our LCA Impact Reporting employs ISO-compliant methodologies to deliver detailed insights into carbon hotspots, serving as a foundational tool for targeted carbon mitigation strategies.

Who’s it for?

Teams looking to quantitatively measure their product's carbon emissions throughout the entire life cycle.

What you get

Comprehensive LCA report featuring:

- Quantitative analysis of carbon hotspots, using standardised metrics

- Identification of critical stages for carbon reduction within the product life cycle

- Comparative benchmarks against industry standards and competitors

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Carbon Recalibration

Carbon Recalibration

With your baseline established, we’ll work alongside your design and engineering team to support your carbon reduction through a series of LCA iterations.

Who’s it for?

Design and development teams looking for design literate, sustainability expertise to measure their carbon reduction initiatives in response to our Carbon Baseline data.

What you get

Recalibration of up to three iterations of your carbon reduction work with expert design for sustainability support throughout.

Carbon Realtime

Carbon Realtime

This is an agile LCA methodology for design teams looking to inform their development cycle with lightweight, indicative LCA assessments.

Starting from your Carbon Baseline, we use real-time carbon data modelling to predict the ‘likely’ impact of design interventions.

Who’s it for?

High-impact, agile product development teams seeking to minimise risk and make informed decisions.

What you get

Fast, expert-led carbon analysis of potential design interventions.

LCA into Action

LCA into Action

Ready for systemic change? Our intensive workshop cultivates a pipeline of high-impact business behaviours for systemic change. Emerge with innovative consumer value propositions and tools to implement circular business models that drive measurable growth.

Who’s it for?

Multi-stakeholder teams empowered to deliver lasting impact without delay.

What you get

A strategic roadmap of triple-bottom-line interventions, from near-term carbon reduction to radical systemic change, primed for immediate execution.

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Informd

Making better choices transparent.

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Essence

A home care brand for the circular economy

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