Beware the Easy Button!

About this episode

Jon discusses the value of reuse with Ren DeCherney and questions the effectiveness of labels in sustainability.

Jon spends time spitballing with Ren DeCherney, of Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. We talk about the value of re--use and try to wrestle with the question of whether or not labels have helped us with this or not. Is there an easy button? Should we even be looking for an easy button? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Jon Strassner

Guest: Ren DeCherney

Topics covered

• reuse
• sustainability
• product innovation
• environmental labels
• design

Keywords

• reuse
• sustainability
• easy button
• environmental labels
• product innovation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute

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