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In our second Friday edition of Sustainability in 7, Autodesk's Dawn Danby explores life-cycles thinking as a design principle, covering the ground from inspiration to longevity. The message that "we have to look at the whole system" is certainly one we've heard before, but Dawn offers suggestions for how to do so.

About Dawn Danby

Recognized by Fast Company in 2009 as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business, Dawn Danby has spent over a decade working in sustainable design and strategy. With Autodesk's Sustainability team, she works to integrate ecological and human impact considerations into the design practice and digital tools of 10 million designers, architects, and engineers worldwide. Her team recently launched the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop, an online platform showing young engineers how to apply sustainability to real-world design and engineering problems. Danby has an industrial design degree from RISD and an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.

Dawn on Twitter: @altissima Sustainability Workshop on Twitter: @ecoworkshop