Shrink your eco mouseprint

While I was writing my design brief for our first project, I came across the ISO 14000 specification. ISO stands for International Standards Organization (pardon if you knew this), and they develop standards for everything from how the tracks on a CD or DVD need to be properly encoded so they're read by any player, to the dimensions of certain products, and countless other things. The standards are agreed upon by all relevant parties, and once they're created, they're used in manufacturing and R&D, etc. But an interesting standard that they began developing a few years ago was to create an ISO number for an environmental management system (EMS). ISO 14000 is a series of frameworks and guidelines that companies can use to identify and control the environmental impact of their organization. 14006 deals specifically with guidelines on eco design, but its still currently being written. This is a great development, since until now, everyone talks about wanting to be more "green", but they don't really know where to start, or even have an understanding of their current environmental impact. Anyway, I know this isn't the type of weekly "blogstarter" post that will generate a ton of responses (or any for that matter), but I thought it might be of some interest... ISO 14000 here.