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One hundred fifty-five is the number of countries that legally recognize the right to a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. Some various actions and approaches help protect this right, but one that seems to be more comprehensive is sustainable design. This approach aims at reducing the negative impacts on the environment and the health of communities by cutting consumption of non-renewable resources, minimizing waste, and foster healthy and safe environments.

Why it’s comprehensive?
Design is such a broad term. It can be applied in numerous products, sectors, services, industries, features, experiences, and settings. It has been a crucial element in the history of human evolution.

Ezio Manzini, one of the world’s leading experts on sustainable design for social innovations says that making tools is one of the attributes that made us human in the first place. The people that made tools 2.5 million years ago were the first designers. But Manzini also says that now there is too much making and not enough designing. This implies that designing has to be at the core of human existence because of its capability to create meaningful solutions, products, experiences, etc… more

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