IHA Panel Discussion | Realizing Good Intentions Through Product Design | Part 2

2011 International Housewares Show
Chicago, IL
03.07.11

There's no shortage of conversations about sustainability, but how many discussions yield good and usable insights regarding how to bring more sustainability into the marketplace for a price that today's consumers want to pay? Not many. This IHA panel discussion aimed to do so--and it delivered.

Submitted by tadkins on February 3, 2012 - 5:48pm

IHA Panel Discussion | Realizing Good Intentions Through Product Design | Part 1

Submitted by tadkins on February 3, 2012 - 5:48pm

IHA Panel Discussion | Realizing Good Intentions Through Product Design | Part 3

Submitted by tadkins on February 3, 2012 - 5:43pm

Plastic News Spotlights Gaylon White

"The passing of the torch may be relatively quiet and unassuming, but it merits recognition. In Kingsport, Tenn., home to Eastman Chemical Co., one of the plastics industry’s most progressive thinkers is preparing to retire at the end of January, just before his 66th birthday. A journalist by training and a nearly 20-year veteran of Eastman, Gaylon White, H/IDSA for the past eight-plus years has served as the chemical and resin maker’s director of design programs — in its own right an unusual type of position for such a company."

Submitted by roxannh on October 7, 2011 - 11:37am

Hydrapack

In 2007, massive floods displaced some 60,000 farmers and fishermen in the Budalangi district of western Kenya. Unfortunately the tragic incident was not unique for the region...the waters of the River Zoia flood annually, destroying crops, displacing families, and spreading water borne diseases such as cholera.