About the Sustainability Guide
The Sustainability Guide has been developed by SVID, the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation.
The environmental aim of SVID is to continuously work to change attitudes, habits and practices to reduce our impact on the environment. The greatest environmental initiatives that SVID can support are in the ongoing success of the eco-design profession and its clients. Relevant SVID projects include the provision of activities, information and training within the area of sustainability.
And this is where the Sustainability Guide comes into play.
The purpose of the Sustainability Guide is to make entrepreneurs, architects, community developers, designers, product developers, students, researchers and organizations more aware of the role of design in sustainable development. The Sustainability Guide has been funded through the programme Miljödrivna marknader (Environmentally Driven Markets) provided by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth. It represents a first step in gathering information to enable the design of a sustainable future. The goal is to provide inspiration to take action!
SVID's efforts to lead the design profession in a more sustainable direction include improving the skills of designers and others through training in the area of sustainable business development.
Editorial Board:
Christer Ericson
(CSR manager, SVID)
Martin Willers
(Editor in Chief of the Sustainability Guide and co-founder of Design & Sustainability agency PEOPLE PEOPLE)
Henrik Willers
(Environmental specialist, the Association of Swedish Engineering Industries)
Stefan Henningsson
(Programme Director Climate Change at WWF Sweden)
Nils Brandt
(Associate professor at Royal Institute of Technology, dep. of Industrial Ecology)
Birgitta Nilsson
(project manager Considerate Design)
Developers:
Jenny Lundgren
Jenny has been part of the development team and has also been responsible for our visual communication, which includes many of the illustrations in the guide.
Annevi Sjöberg
Annevi has been part of the development team. She has carried out research and contributed to the content of the guide.
More about SVID
Read more about SVID on www.svid.se
Read more about the course "Sustainable Business Development: How to create a more profitable business"