ALAMEDA, Calif., Mar. 4, 2010 -- On April 7th, Technology Forecasters Inc. (TFI) President Pamela J. Gordon and Design Chain Associates (DCA) President Mike Kirschner will co-lead a 90-minute webinar entitled Design for Environment and Competitive Advantage. The webinar's aim is to give designers sound design parameters for efficient, compliant, lower-cost, and competitive products. Registration is now open at http://www.designchainassociates.com/webinar20100407info.html. According to Gordon, The webinar condenses a proven day-long Design-for-Environment workshop to the pivotal and actionable steps electronics designers can take at their companies for achieving profitable DfE. Gordon and Kirschner, who team up to provide full-day Design-for-Environment (DfE) workshops for electronics companies, will cover in the webinar the following topics:  bull; The strategic importance of DfE to designers, competitive products, risk reduction, and profitability; bull; The similarities, differences, and trajectories of new regulations and standards; bull; Training designers in using a DfE checklist while measuring environmental and financial benefits; bull; Preparing the supply-chain for the coming wave of DfE requirements; and bull; QA with two electronic-product companies strategically committed to DfE. We will enable webinar participants to start implementing profitable DfE at their companies starting immediately after this 90-minute webinar, says Kirschner. The two guest speakers are from electronic-product companies Tellabs and Blue Coat Systems. Participants will have an opportunity to ask them questions about DfE implementation and the business reasons for which they trained their designers in DfE.   The 90-minute webinar will be held twice on April 7th -- once at a time convenient for Eastern North American and European participants (10:00 to 11:30 am Eastern Time / 4:00 to 5:30 pm Central European Time), and again at a time convenient for Western North American and Asia-Pacific participants (4:00 to 5:30 pm Pacific Time / 8:00 to 9:30 am the next day Beijing time zone). To register, go to http://www.designchainassociates.com/webinar20100407info.html.  ABOUT TECHNOLOGY FORECASTERS INC￡o TFI has two consulting-and-research specialties: TFI Supply Chain increases the effectiveness of supply-chain relationships and helps clients systematically remove waste from supply-chain and logistics processes.  TFI Environment leads clients to Lean and Green competitive advantage for products, supply chain, logistics, and facilities.  With clients in the Americas, EMEA, and Asia, TFI delivers a unique combination of industry and environmental expertise through management consulting, customized research, keynotes, and workshops.