Living Product Challenge
Production for the future
The Living Product Challenge is the world’s most advanced product sustainability standard. The framework encourages manufacturers to create products that are healthy, inspiring and give more than they take across their life cycles.
Living Products are:
- Informed by nature, using principles of biomimicry and biophilia.
- Made using processes powered only by renewable energy.
- Improve one’s quality of life.
- Beautiful and functional
Featured Case Studies
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CARNEGIE FABRICS BIO XOREL FABRIC
Carnegie Fabrics
Imperative Certified
Since its creation in 1981, Xorel’s simplicity has been integral to its environmental impact. Its extruded, solution dyed yarn was the critical element in creating a material that was high on performance and light on the planet. Since that moment 35 years ago, Carnegie has strived to improve its environmental footprint achieving some major industry…
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CROSSVILLE RETRO ACTIVE 2.0, SHADES 2.0, and COLOR BLOX 2.0
Crossville, TN
Petal Certified
LPC 2.0
As the first tile manufacturer in Tennessee (est. 1986), Crossville is the leading American manufacturer of beautiful, sustainable solutions that advance the frontiers of tile design. From introducing the nation’s first large-format porcelain tiles, to becoming the first and only net consumer of tile waste materials (meaning we recycle even more than we produce), to…
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Mohawk EcoFlex Production Line
Mohawk Group
Petal Certified
Mohawk Group is the world’s leading producer and distributor of quality commercial carpet and hard surface flooring with dedication to innovation, style, service, and sustainability. Influenced heavily by mother nature, Mohawk believes not only in their flooring solutions to connect its users with the environment but also that it is their duty as a manufacturer…
Petals
Imagine products that function as elegantly as nature. The Living Product Challenge is organized into seven performance areas.
Place
Restoring a healthy coexistence with site and the natural environment.
Water
Creating products that operate within the water balance of the manufacturing site and are net positive throughout their life cycle.
Energy
Manufacturing processes that rely on current solar income and are net positive throughout the product life cycle.
Health + Happiness
Optimizing the health of products and creating environments that promote psychological well-being.
Materials
Supporting a circular and regenerative economy by creating products that use healthy and safe inputs, and eliminating concepts of waste.
Equity
Supporting a just and sustainable world.
Beauty
Celebrating design that uplifts the human spirit.
Let’s Get Started
Create products that give more than they take. Browse the standard or join an upcoming webinar to learn more about the philosophy and framework of the Living Product Challenge.