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Sustainability in Action

Handprints Over Footprints

Working to Create a

Net Positive Impact

Footprints: Only Half of the Equation

Footprints are the damage we do by consuming resources and emitting pollution. No matter how small, they are still a negative impact. Which raises the questions:
What's next?
How do we do better?

"Reducing footprints is a great place to start, but a tragic place to stop."

Greg Norris, Chief Scientist, ILFI, and Director, SHINE@MIT

Handprints: The Way to a Net Positive Impact

Measuring handprints - or positive impact - follows the same logic as measuring footprints. When added together, footprints and handprints determine an organization's net impact. They show us whether we're doing more good than harm, and leaving the world better off.

When measuring our net impact, we look at the entire life cycle.

Measuring sustainability has been a challenge for as long as we've been talking about it.

In 1969, the first Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) were undertaken in an attempt to understand the impact of our activities.

Life Cycle Assessment

Today, LCA is a robust science, providing corporations with ways of measuring the impact of a product from inception to disposal. That measurement is one we're all now familiar with: footprints.

Resource Extraction
Processing and Production
Transportation and Distribution
Assembly
Usage
Disposal Recycling

Life Cycle Assessment

Resource Extraction

Processing and Production

Transportation and Distribution

Assembly

Usage

Disposal and Recycling

Here's how we're doing:

Here's the footprint we create when we manufacture the Diffrient Smart chair.

Here's how we're doing:

And here's the energy we save by replacing an older, less efficient bulb:

Here's how we're doing:

This is our handprint - created by saving more energy, water and emissions than we use in manufacturing:

"Imagine if manufacturing made the world a better place."

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Diffrient Smart chair

Diffrient Smart chair

Our Smart chair is one of the first ILFI-certified Living Products. Find out how its innovative design helps us create a positive impact on the planet.

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The Float table, also a certified Living Product, is helping us turn our impact into a positive one.

Help us create an energy handprint, and be part of a positive change in the world.

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