Try answering these questions:

Draw your product's lifecycle, with all the stocks and flows and cycles.

What are the differences between man-made products and wild ones?

Make a list of about 20 environmental issues and then mark each one with a solution to the problem -- cyclic, solar, safe or any combination of these. Are there any that CSS does not solve?

Choose a product and study it. What percentage of the materials flow is cyclic (cradle to cradle) and what percentage is linear (going to landfill or being put into a different type of ecosystem or a similar one but far away)? Include all the byproducts as well!

Find an example of a cyclic product or process

List all the forms of solar energy you can think of

What everyday objects do you use could be safer?

Find a process that has been made safe

How efficient is materials flow through your company? Include Water! What percentage by mass of what you buy in do you actually sell?

Does efficiency always help?

Send us some examples of what you think parts of a biocompatible future might look like.

Provocations -- to get you thinking if you are stuck ...

What if energy was free? (This is a good one!)

What if steel cost as much as gold?

How would a whale or a chipmunk solve the problem?

Even a church or a car can be disposable

Solar factory

Distribution

We CAN do it!

100% sustainability is an achievable goal

How can we do it within your kids' lifetime?

Think about this. It's the only design question that really matters.