Podcasts about Industrial ecology

The prevailing discourse on sustainability is often dominated by high-tech solutions—AI-driven emissions tracking, smart grids, and digital monitoring systems. While these technologies play an important role in measuring and managing environmental impact, they do not address the structural and systemic changes necessary to build a truly sustainable future. The built environment—infrastructure, material use, and urban design—fundamentally shapes environmental outcomes, yet discussions on sustainability frequently overlook low-tech, high-impact solutions in favor of complex monitoring mechanisms. That being said, the increasing reliance on data-driven climate strategies raises concerns about privacy, governance, and the broader role of digital surveillance in environmental policy. Individuals already provide more personal data to private corporations via smartphones than they do to public sustainability initiatives, yet cities continue to struggle with translating environmental data into meaningful action. This raises an essential question: should we focus less on tracking sustainability and more on embedding it into infrastructure, construction, and urban planning from the outset? This week on Beyond the Headlines, we examine the intersection of sustainability, infrastructure, and governance. How can we integrate low-tech, scalable solutions into urban design and construction to reduce environmental impact without reliance on constant monitoring? What role do transportation networks, material efficiency, and land-use planning play in driving sustainability outcomes? And how can policymakers balance data collection, climate accountability, and privacy considerations in environmental governance? To explore these critical questions, we are joined by Dr. Shoshanna Saxe, a leading expert in sustainable infrastructure and urban resilience. She is an Assistant Professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering and holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Infrastructure. Dr. Saxe's research investigates the relationship between infrastructure and society, identifying pathways to align urban development, transportation systems, and material use with long-term sustainability goals. Beyond academia, Dr. Saxe is actively involved in policy and sustainability governance, serving on Waterfront Toronto's Capital Peer Review Panel and the board of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. Recognized as one of Canada's emerging environmental leaders by Clean50, she was also awarded the 2019 Ontario Engineering Medal – Young Engineer. Her research and expert commentary have been widely featured in The New York Times, The BBC, The Toronto Star, The Financial Post, Spacing Magazine, and Wired. Join us as we move beyond the traditional conversation on high-tech climate solutions and critically examine the foundational role of infrastructure, design, and governance in shaping a sustainable future. Produced by: Julia Brahy

Guest: Elena Kochetkova on wood, forests and industrial ecology in the Soviet Union. The post Soviet Industrial Ecology appeared first on The Eurasian Knot.

Nellie Cohen is the Director of Circular Revenue Models at Anthesis. Nellie holds over 15 years' of sustainability experience and is widely recognized as a leading figure within the circular economy movement.  She spent nearly a decade at Patagonia as the architect of the brand's precedent-setting and award-winning circularity program, Worn Wear.   Prior to joining Anthesis, Nellie founded Baleen. There she consulted with notable apparel brands to develop circular business models, product systems and related marketing and communications. A former lecturer in Industrial Ecology at UC Santa Barbara, she holds a BA in Environmental Systems from UC San Diego and a MS in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography.   In this episode Nellie shares: - What is the circular economy? - What are the benefits of engaging in the circular economy? - How we can keep our resources and products in use for as long as possible. - Why ride-sharing/carpooling is better for the environment than Uber-ing. - Great examples of businesses that are thriving with sustainable models. - The impact that 'Worn Wear' had on Patagonia's success. - Nellie's life-changing questions 1. How can I make the world a better place? which led to 2. How can we change people's relationship with stuff? 3. How can I help move people from consumers to owners? And a question that you can reflect on : How can circularity affect your business plan and model? - How 82% of Americans bought something used last year, and the growing trend of Gen-Z choosing not to buy something if it can't be resold or repurposed.   It is a trend that product-based business owners should consider carefully in their designs   Resources mentioned in this episode Naomi Klein This changes everything Capitalism vs Climate https://www.amazon.com.au/This-Changes-Everything-Capitalism-Climate/dp/1451697392   Nellie Cohen - Linkedin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nellie-cohen-69233194/ If you would like more insights on profit maximization for your business, visit www.ProfitHive.com.au

Learn all the basics of geology in our new conversational textbook - campGEO!Available here: geo.campcourses.comYou can also check out Jesse's Etsy shop here - JRRStonework and use promo code PLANETGEO10 for a 10% discount on all items.We are on a break still, but releasing episodes on the really important elements - where they are found, why the are found there, and why we care about these elements in our society!  There is some really interesting stuff in here, so enjoy.Remember you can Support Us Here,and share PlanetGeo with your friends and family!Today we have the great pleasure of talking about a very important topic, while interviewing one of the best and most interesting people we've had the pleasure of speaking with!Dr. Nedal Nassar is the Chief of the US Geological Survey's Materials Flow Analysis Section, he has a PhD in Industrial Ecology from Yale and is a Leading member of the US National Science and Technology Council.  In addition, he was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is a very VERY big deal!  ——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastSupport us: https://planetgeocast.com/support-usEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.com/

Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology.  She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3.She has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and obtained her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has published over 40 internationally peer-reviewed articles since 2009 in journals including Nature Climate Change, Nature Sustainability, WIRES-Climate Change, Environmental Science & Technology, PLOS ONE and Environmental Research Letters.As part of our drive towards finding the people at the leading edge of change, we wanted to connect with Prof Steinberger really to unpick the detail of personal and collective action. Each of us is only one person and the nature of the change can feel overwhelming even while it feels urgent.  So we need to hear directly from the people whose entire lives are given to solving this problem and who have concrete ideas of what we can do and how, who can direct our priorities and show us where the best leverage points lie.  Prof. Steinberger has clear ideas of how our culture can live within planetary boundaries and we unpick them in this podcast.  Enjoy! Julia on Medium https://jksteinberger.medium.com/an-audacious-toolkit-actions-against-climate-breakdown-part-1-a-is-for-advocacy-7baa108f00e9Living Well Within Limits https://lili.leeds.ac.uk/Positive Money https://positivemoney.org/Fossil Banks, No Thanks https://www.fossilbanks.org/

At the end of our second conversation, Gaya was finishing her book, leaving KPMG, and soon starting at Schneider Electric. The book just came out, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse: What a 50-Year-Old Model of the World Taught Me About a Way Forward for Us Today (a free download), and she's worked at Schneider a while.We talk about the book, how the world has tracked two of the Limits to Growth simulations, and how working at Schneider is.The book treats how to respond to a complex, systemic problem, which is different from how to respond to a simple, linear problem. I consider the advice right on, rare to find, even among environmentalists. To change a system, some of the best levers are its goals and values. Don't change them and you retain the system you're trying to change, which most people are doing.Gaya's views are a breath of fresh air that give direction for people who want to lead to act.Gaya's new book, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse: What a 50-Year-Old Model of the World Taught Me About a Way Forward for Us Today (a free download)About the book: Looming environmental and social breaking points, like climate change and massive inequalities, are becoming increasingly apparent and large in scale. In this book, Gaya Herrington puts today's key societal challenges in perspective. Her analysis, rooted in her research on a 50-year-old model of the world that forecasted the onset of global collapse right around the present time, brings some structure to what otherwise might feel like the overwhelming task of achieving genuine societal sustainability.Herrington's research, first published in 2020 in Yale‘s Journal of Industrial Ecology, went viral after it revealed empirical data tracked closely with the predictions of this world model, which was introduced in the 1972 best seller The Limits to Growth. Her book Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse contains an exclusive research update based on 2022 data and is written in a more personable and accessible style than the journal article. Herrington also elaborates more in this book on the many interlinkages between our economic, environmental, and social predicaments, and on what her findings indicate for future global developments.Herington lays out why “business as usual” is not a viable option for global society and identifies the root cause of this unsustainable path. Most importantly, her book teaches us what systemic changes humanity still has time to make to achieve a better tomorrow. A future in which society has transformed beyond the mere avoidance of collapse and is truly thriving. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello Interactors,This is the first of a series of posts where I wrangle, disentangle, and find an angle on an alternative sustainable economy. My starting point is circular economy. It's a seemingly straight forward concept — reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair. If only it was that easy. As interactors, you're special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You're also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let's go…ESG DISHARMONYIt's been a confusing week for the green economy. The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, was the source of some of the biggest news. BlackRock has made strides in recent years to be a world leader in environmental, social, and corporate governance, or as it's commonly called – ESG. ESG is a framework of metrics companies pledge to follow intended to identify, assess, and manage environmentally and socially sustainable, but still profitable, risks and opportunities through investments, corporate culture, and practices. This can typically, or ultimately, lead to divestments in the fossil fuel industry as more and more investors, customers, and employees desire and demand reductions in CO2 emissions.But the state of Louisiana isn't having it. They announced this week they're pulling $749 million from BlackRock funds. Their state treasurer said BlackRock has “blatantly anti-fossil fuel policies” that damage the state's energy industry and thus state revenue. It's not just fossil-fuel fans who are unhappy with ESG. Elon Musk famously quipped that ESG's are “an outrageous sham.” Tesla was initially praised for their leadership on the environment, “E”, but were removed from the S&P500 ESG index because of their lackluster reputation for “S” and “G”. Last April a judge and jury found Tesla to be liable for promoting a racially hostile environment at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.Dust ups like these have caused many companies, investors, and independent ESG rating firms to soften their language, add or subtract certain metrics, change the parameters, or rebrand their rating schemes. As a result, ESG, a segment of worldwide investment accounting for 1/3 of total assets worth around $35 trillion, has become extremely murky. In July, The Economist wrote, “As it is, measurement of the size of the ESG market is confusing, the ratings are too subjective, and the industry over-promises and under-delivers.” They went on to cite research that found “ESG rating agencies are the veritable acme of inconsistency. A study of six of them found that they used 709 different metrics across 64 categories. Only ten categories were common to all—and they do not include such basics as greenhouse-gas emissions.”In September, Dilbert predictably joined in the chorus of criticism.Sadly, the concept of a ‘circular economy' is following a similar path. Circular economies take limited raw materials used to make goods and loops them back into the economy instead of throwing them away – reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair. But the term ‘circular economy', like ESG, has also become diffuse and trendy. The occurrence of these two words together, ‘circular economy', doesn't show up in the books Google has scanned until around 1990. It grew steadily until a dip leading up to the financial crisis in 2008. But since 2014, it has skyrocketed.Even Wall Street now has funds popping up branded ‘Circular Economy'. In 2019 BlackRock launched a fund called “BlackRock Global Funds Circular Economy”. Its top holdings include two waste management companies, a Coca-Cola subsidiary, a water filtration company, and…wait for it…Microsoft? I guess that's because of their public commitment to negative CO2 emissions. Not sure. If so, I'm suspicious of their noble, and needed, effort. Having watched the over-produced press announcement in person, I left feeling it was one part a greenwashing PR stunt and one part Microsoft seeing dollars signs selling cloud services to companies running toward their own vague, but earnest, ESG goals. For example, running complicated AI models in the cloud to determine emission reductions, simulating breakthrough renewable energy technologies, or simply using Microsoft Teams so companies can cut their travel budgets while reducing CO2 emissions. In other words, to hit ESG goals – or attempt a circular economy – requires new technology; new technologies need software; and increasingly that software is run on Microsoft servers in the cloud…or in local data centers. Going green yields greenbacks.Two other companies on that BlackRock list also give me pause. Both Republic Services and Waste Management profit from collecting, processing, and recycling industrial and consumer waste. More waste equals more money. One of the basic principles of sustainable and environmentally conscious business practices is reducing consumption and thus waste. Are these companies ok with their customers cutting back on their garbage? Probably not. But they, like Microsoft, see opportunity in building ‘green' processing plants, creating a market for recycled materials, and then reaping the profits. All of which would welcome – possibly even encourage – even more consumption. And that would yield more resource extraction and more garbage to process – resulting in more profits. That doesn't sound very sustainable or ‘green', unless you're a chief financial officer.MIND THE GAPS OF MIND TRAPSIn a 2021 paper titled Critique of the Circular Economy three researchers in the field of industrial ecology offer a critical look at the current state of the theories and practices of circular economies.  Industrial ecologists track the physical resource flows of industrial and consumer systems at different spatial scales. They aim to reduce environmental impacts while enabling human well-being through more circular flows of resources instead of the more traditional linear flow of extract, produce, and dump. They write,“In seeking to maintain a growth-based economy, critics argue, the circular economy ‘tinkers with the current modus operandi' of “consumerism, extractivism and (liberal) capitalism, while bearing the unrealistic expectation that the individual consumer will be able to mobilize largescale change. The circular economy is considered to encourage a reboot for capitalism that requires no radical change to institutions, infrastructures, and markets.”In this regard, they conclude, “Without this transition, the new economy will simply maintain the current status quo.”These researchers, writing in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, believe,“Circular economy is based on an ideological agenda dominated by technical and economic accounts, which brings uncertain contributions to sustainability and depoliticizes sustainable growth. Bringing together these critiques demonstrates that the circular economy is far from being as promising as its advocates claim it to be.”This begs the question, what do advocates promise? In 2020, another group of researchers writing in the journal, Resources, Conservation & Recycling write,“While there were only 116 academic articles published on the topic [of circular economy] from 2001 to 2008, this number has grown exponentially to over 4900. Nevertheless, most of the [circular economy] discourse has actually been developed by actors in the government and private sectors, which have specific political and economic agendas, and have often used the [circular economy] as a narrative device for greenwashing.”In their paper they seek to identify research gaps while also developing a classification scheme for the different beliefs and approaches to describing and articulating circular economies. In doing so, they hope to avoid the disillusion the ESG movement is witnessing by identifying shared beliefs, approaches, and missteps and their deficiencies.In the set of research papers they evaluated, these five gaps were identified:1. Systemic thinking on entropy, growth, capitalism, and decouplingThey found no coherent systemic economic or social theory underlying the circular economy. This makes for fertile ground to establish one, but it also leads to fuzzy thinking, confusion, disarray, and skepticism. There is seemingly no agreement on the physics of entropy given laws of thermodynamics. Materials degrade over time through recycling processes which means they can't be recycled indefinitely. There is no ‘perpetual recycling machine'. New raw materials must then be extracted and injected into recycled materials to boost their value. They note the ‘biggest elephant in the room' is how to decouple growth and capitalism from the circular economy. Capitalism only works with growthism. Because the circular economy is a degrowth strategy, is it incompatible with capitalism or does the idea of capitalism need to adapt to the limits of earth's resources?2. The materials, energy, and biodiversity [interconnections]The promise of the circular economy is to recover materials which requires less energy, find nature-based solutions that contribute to increased biodiversity, and thus reduce the overall demand on raw materials while bettering our ecosystem and quality of life. This is the essence of the metaphorical circle in a circular economy. However, we still need material and energy to build a renewable energy infrastructure. Waste incinerators, as one example, keeps garbage out of the earth while generating energy but at a cost to air quality. An abundance of energy is also needed to run all the recycling and processing plants intended to feed reused materials back into the economy. In addition, when done at scale, a circular economy could become so efficient that it encourages more pollution, energy demand, and renewable resources. Increased energy production, say through biofuels, could lead to further biodiversity loss, which is needed to improve soil health, reduce erosion, and improve air and water quality. Raw materials, energy, and biodiversity are interconnected and can't be addressed in isolation or in a linear flow on the path toward a circular economy.3. Evaluating and assessing the full impacts of a circular economyWe're not always as clever as we think, so we need ways to evaluate, assess, and adjust as we go. This is especially true given a common misnomer that increased efficiencies lead to reductions in resource consumption. Imagine all the inventions throughout history that promised more leisure time at home when in fact they often led to more to more production and consumption. For example, laundry machines led to more laundry. This is known as the Jevons paradox. Increased efficiencies lead to falling costs which increases demand leading to more consumption. Circular economies that promote eco-efficiency run the risk of creating rebound effects. That's the paradox. Attempts to slow down and reduce leads to the opposite — accelerated extraction, consumption, and destruction. Cost reductions from cheap renewable energy, for example, could increase demand for it. Meanwhile, that cheap energy may allow a cheaper widget to be made increasing demand and consumption of the widget. Humans need self-regulating evaluative safeguards on our ingenuity if we want us, and our circular economy, to thrive and survive.YOU CAN'T FLEE ESG4. Governance, social justice, and cultural changeA 2017 study looked at 114 different definitions of circular economy and only 18-20% considered social equity. Looking at nearly 5000 academic papers, researchers found just 804 from the fields of social sciences and humanities. Most were from environmental science, engineering, and energy sciences. Yet, as researchers found in 2018, those attempting to put the circular economy into practice identified the main barrier to adoption is cultural acceptance and changes to consumer beliefs and behaviors. Technology was the least of their concerns. They concluded that “circular economy is a niche discussion among sustainable development professionals.” There's also the issue of power. In the race toward energy and economic transition, once again dominant states will forcibly instill technocratic top-down governmental and corporate agendas. Meanwhile, historically marginalized stakeholders will continue fighting for social, environmental, and economic justice. Sounds like ESG won't be going away any time soon…or ever.5. Alternative visions of circularityThe lack of attention on cultural and social dimensions could be addressed by including likeminded visions and existing practice. The concept of circularity and ecological reciprocity is fundamental to Indigenous cultures around the world. Many have extended, modified, and adapted sustainable ancestral hunter-gatherer, agrarian, and pastoral ways of living — and some still do. They also tend to adopt pluralistic ideals that enable and foster mutual coexistence and largely avoid ethnocentric economic and environmental agendas. And they don't seek global dominance of resources and cultural assimilation. For centuries Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism have also promoted harmonious societies complete with ecologically sound philosophies and practices. Some of those philosophies are alive today. Since 2000 Japan has adopted a “Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society” which tracks “how effectively materials are used in industrial activities and people's daily lives, in terms of creating more wealth using fewer resources.” There are many alternative ways to reduce, reuse, recycle, and repair that all include elements of circularity, reduced consumption, and measures of growth. And it's likely our diverse planet will need more than one flavor of circular economy.These five gaps illustrate both the diversity and complexity surrounding conceptions and implementations of the circular economy. The Economist magazine highlighted how the subjectivity and size of ESG not only leads to confusion but a tendency to over-promise and under-deliver. It seems the circular economy suffers the same risk. And yet, human history shows examples of how plurality of thought, belief, and culture when coupled with eco-efficient circularity and reciprocity fueled centuries of coexistence with each other and the planet's complex web of nested systems.Circularity is not new, and it's not a trend. Examples are found at all levels of ecologies, and societies, on which we depend. Understanding, situating, and articulating past and existing circular concepts in nature and societies – representing diverse interpretations from all corners of the world – is what is needed to enable a socially just, economically sound, and environmentally sustainable path forward.ESG is an attempt to lead us there under the current economic model. And while the ‘E' in emissions should be the key to ESG, we need all three for the circular economy.Tune in next time as I unpack the history of modern articulations of a circular economy. I'll map socio-economic, environmental, and political approaches against a range of technological utopias and dystopias. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit interplace.io

La sociedad humana avanza hacia el colapso, evento que podría suceder en apenas dos décadas, a no ser que viremos el rumbo y cambiemos seriamente nuestras prioridades a escala global.Siento haber comenzado así, a lo bruto, sin filtro, pero la idea que acabo de exponer se basa en un trabajo realizado por el MIT en la década de 1970. Durante bastante tiempo se supo bastante poco de aquel viejo trabajo, denostado en su época, pero ahora una analista llamada Gaya Herrington (que actualmente trabaja para una de las cuatro grandes a nivel mundial en el sector de las consultoras, la firma KPGM) acaba de “revisitar” aquel trabajo, solo para descubrir que algunas de sus lúgubres predicciones se están cumpliendo punto por punto.Los resultados de su actualización se publicaron en la edición de noviembre de 2020 de la revista Yale Journal of Industrial Ecology, en la que básicamente, Herrington amplió la tesis doctoral que había realizado sobre este campo, durante su posgrado en la Universidad de Harvard.¡De esto hablamos hoy en el podcast!jc

Biologist Paul Ehrlich reflects on the 1972 MIT study, The Limits to Growth, on its 50th anniversary – including the fact that it has been refuted (poorly), ignored, and confirmed. The study was done by a team of scientists commissioned by the Club of Rome to develop a computer model to simulate the interaction of earth and human systems. It revealed that continuation of the then-current trends in population, industrialization, resource use and pollution would result in overshooting the carrying capacity of the Earth and result in a general collapse at some point in the first half of the 21st century. The study results were published in the 1972 book, The Limits to Growth, which holds the record as the top-selling environmental book. The book was authored by four system dynamics scientists (Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens III). Gaya Herrington, whose 2020 analysis of The Limits to Growth was published in Yale's Journal of Industrial Ecology, described the study and book aptly: “the authors identified society's relentless pursuit of growth not as the solution to, but the cause of, so many of the environmental and social crises that plague humanity still today.” “....what is it about Homo sapiens that leads us to the limits as a moth to a flame.  Why don't we stop?  Why should we?  Can we?”   – Brian Czech, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Read The Limits to Growth: Online Read, but includes scans of pages and downloadable charts https://collections.dartmouth.edu/teitexts/meadows/diplomatic/meadows_ltg-diplomatic.html High Quality Scan https://collections.dartmouth.edu/content/deliver/inline/meadows/pdf/meadows_ltg-001.pdf Mentioned in Our Discussion of The Limits to Growth: Limits to Growth 50th Anniversary Events - on Club of Rome website https://www.clubofrome.org/ltg50-events/ UN Event June 2-3: Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity View live on the web: https://www.stockholm50.global/events/programme The Stockholm+50 Conference: What You Need to Know and Why It Matters https://unfoundation.org/blog/post/the-stockholm50-conference-what-you-need-to-know-and-why-it-matters/ Take this survey before June 2: https://www.stockholm50.global/state-planet-global-public-survey June 10 seminar: Limits to Growth +50: Can Economies Keep Growing Indefinitely on a Finite Planet? Organized by: Norwegian University of Life Sciences https://www.nmbu.no/en/faculty/landsam/department/noragric/research/seminars/node/44433 The Limits to Growth at 50: From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality - by Richard Heinberg https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-24/the-limits-to-growth-at-50-from-scenarios-to-unfolding-reality/ Limits and Beyond (New book April 2022 from the Club of Rome, a collection of essays) https://exapt.press/books/limits-and-beyond Nate Hagens interviews Dennis Meadows in his podcast, The Great Simplification. https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/12-dennis-meadows Dennis Meadows on the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of The Limits to Growth - interview by Richard Heinberg https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-02-22/dennis-meadows-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-the-publication-of-the-limits-to-growth/ Is Global Collapse Imminent? – by Graham Turner (2014) The Limits to Growth “standard run” (or business-as-usual, BAU) scenario produced in 1972 aligns well with historical data that has been updated in this paper https://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2763500/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf Update to Limits to Growth: Comparing the World3 Model with Empirical Data - by Gaya Herrington https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jiec.13084 Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet - by Anders Wijkman and Ersnt Von Weizscker and with contributions from more than 30 members of the Club of Rome https://mahb.stanford.edu/library-item/come-capitalism-short-termism-population-destruction-planet/ What a 50-year-old World Model Tells Us About a Way Forward Today - by  Gaya Herrington, now vice president of ESG Research at Schneider Electric and member of The Club of Rome's Transformational Economics Commission https://www.clubofrome.org/blog-post/herrington-ltg50/ In this episode, we also discuss these “growthbusting news” items: Walk Or Cycle Instead of Driving, Urges Ford Boss https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2022/05/16/walk-or-cycle-instead-of-driving-urges-ford-boss/?sh=2283c3ba3481 New flight of fancy for billionaires – the Air Yacht https://theuglyminute.com/2022/05/11/air-yacht/ Back From a Touring Hiatus, Coldplay Pledges to Make Performances More Sustainable https://www.npr.org/2022/05/14/1098947216/back-from-a-touring-hiatus-coldplay-pledges-to-make-performances-more-sustainabl The European Environmental Bureau has launched a campaign calling on the EU to refocus from GDP Growth to Wellbeing Campaign Page: https://eeb.org/doughnuteconomicsforall/ https://meta.eeb.org/2022/05/12/doughnut-economics-how-to-bake-a-better-future/ The 25% Revolution - film https://vimeo.com/535791169 GrowthBusters Called Me Extreme, So I Responded - episode of This Sustainable Life podcast by Joshua Spodek https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/this-sustainable-life-593342/episodes/583-growthbusters-called-me-ex-139440528 Mobilising Humanity Film Premier at COP26 - Ed Gemmel described his nightmare in this episode of the Planet in Crisis podcast from Scientists Warning Europe https://planetincrisis.libsyn.com/30-mobilising-humanity-film-premier-at-cop26 Give Us Feedback: Record a voice message for us to play on the podcast: 719-402-1400 Send an email to podcast at growthbusters.org The GrowthBusters theme song was written and produced by Jake Fader and sung by Carlos Jones. https://www.fadermusicandsound.com/ https://carlosjones.com/ On the GrowthBusters podcast, we come to terms with the limits to growth, explore the joy of sustainable living, and provide a recovery program from our society's growth addiction (economic/consumption and population). This podcast is part of the GrowthBusters project to raise awareness of overshoot and end our culture's obsession with, and pursuit of, growth. Dave Gardner directed the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth, which Stanford Biologist Paul Ehrlich declared “could be the most important film ever made.” Co-host, and self-described "energy nerd," Stephanie Gardner has degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Law & Policy. Join the conversation on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GrowthBustersPodcast/ Make a donation to support this non-profit project. https://www.growthbusters.org/donate/ Archive of GrowthBusters podcast episodes http://www.growthbusters.org/podcast/ Subscribe to GrowthBusters email updates https://lp.constantcontact.com/su/umptf6w/signup Explore the issues at http://www.growthbusters.org View the GrowthBusters channel on YouTube Follow the podcast so you don't miss an episode:

Today we have the great pleasure of talking about a very important topic, while interviewing one of the best and most interesting people we've had the pleasure of speaking with!Dr. Nedal Nassar is the Chief of the US Geological Survey's Materials Flow Analysis Section, he has a PhD in Industrial Ecology from Yale and is a Leading member of the US National Science and Technology Council.  In addition, he was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is a very VERY big deal!  Please enjoy this amazing conversation with Dr. Nassar, and send us any questions you have!!——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.buzzsprout.com/ 

Today we have the great pleasure of talking about a very important topic, while interviewing one of the best! Dr. Nedal Nassar is the Chief of the US Geological Survey's Materials Flow Analysis Section, he has a PhD in Industrial Ecology from Yale and is a Leading member of the US National Science and Technology Council.  In addition, he was awarded the 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, which is a very VERY big deal!  Join us next week to hear more from Dr. Nassar!** Just a quick note - Dr. Nassar slightly misspoke in this episode when talking about Tantalum and corrected himself later.  Tantalum is actually combined with niobium, vanadium, and zirconium. Tellurium is combined with elemental boron.——————————————————Instagram: @planetgeocastTwitter: @planetgeocastFacebook: @planetgeocastEmail: planetgeocast@gmail.comWebsite: https://planetgeocast.buzzsprout.com/ 

Dr. Sybil Derrible (@SybilDerrible) is the creator of the Actionable Science for Urban Sustainability (AScUS) society, and former chair of the International Society of Industrial Ecology's Sustainable Urban Systems section. He is an Associate Professor of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago. His work embraces the growing complexity of cities, exploring our changing relationships with the built environment, natural environment, and cyber technologies, through innovative techniques that reveal the changing networks and behaviors that define urban dynamics. He is interviewed in today's podcast by Dr. Mikhail Chester (@mikhailchester), a professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University.Infrastructure Misfits (un)Society:http://www.infrastructurecomplexity.org/Metis Center for Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering | Arizona State University: https://metis.asu.edu/––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––If you have questions, comments, or suggestions for future episodes, e-mail us at futurecitiespodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @FutureCitiesPod. Learn more about the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network (UREx SRN) at urexsrn.net.

In episode 262, Kestrel welcomes Roland Geyer, Professor of Industrial Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to the show. Roland is also the author of a recently released book titled “The Business Of Less: The Role Of Companies and Households On A Planet In Peril”. If you are familiar with corporate social responsibility, if you work in the field, or if you have an understanding of some of the general narratives within the space, this show may come as somewhat of a shock to you. Or maybe not – maybe you're already asking some of these questions for yourself. One thing is clear — we're doing a lot of reimagining on this show. As this week's guest points out in his recent book – “The Business Of Less” — the sustainability narrative (and the corporate sustainability conversation in particular) has been dominated by two primary tenants. The idea of the win/win paradigm – which is basically the idea that you can have your cake and eat it too. It aligns doing good with both saving the planet and saving money. In other words, sustainability only works when there's a business case for it (one that in the end, puts more profits in the pockets of the corporation). And the other focus has been on eco efficiency or decoupling. You might be familiar with the life cycle assessment or LCA, which quantifies the environmental impact per unit of product or service. This ignores the question of volume or quantity, and instead, only evaluates products on an individual level. So, while you may or may not be familiar with the above ideas – they have driven the way sustainability has been spoken about and addressed from a mainstream lens over the last few decades. Turns out, these approaches HAVE NOT WORKED. Over the last 30 years, with all the investment in CSR departments and sustainability marketing and the focus on eco and organic and recycled and circularity, we are still standing in the same place. Or maybe even worse. Our total material or resource use has not decreased – instead, it has actually gone up.  According to this week's guest, there are many ways to get us back on track – but one of the keys involves focusing on LABOR, not MATERIALS. Quotes & links from the conversation: “A Friedman Doctrine — The Social Responsibility Of Business Is To Increase Its Profits”, article by Milton Friedman that changed the focus of how business operates “H&M Plans to Double Sales, Halve Carbon Footprint by 2030” “Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use”, book published in 1997 that aligns with H&M's recent plans to double sales & halve footprint (basically, this shows how the “make more and reduce impact” approach isn't a new concept “Could Living Wages Help Solve Fashion's Climate Crisis? New Research Says Yes”, article by Elizabeth Cline for Forbes “There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product”, article co-written by Roland Nisolo's Sustainability Facts Label that Kestrel mentions Video about apparel recycling that Patagonia did in collaboration with Roland “Upset about the plastic crisis? Stop trying so hard”, op-ed that Roland wrote for The Guardian “Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone”, illustrated story by Susie Cagle Follow Roland on Twitter > Follow Bren School at UCSB on Instagram >

About the lecture: Teresa Domenech Aparisi will use evidence to assess the carbon footprint of fashion, address why fast fashion is problematic and identify ways to decarbonise your wardrobe. Following on from this, Jo Hale will look at ways to extend the lifetime of our clothes (reuse, repair and repurpose), including presenting research into barriers and enablers on these behaviours, and strategies for changing behaviour. Speakers: Teresa Domenech, Associate Professor in Industrial Ecology and the Circular Economy at UCL Dr Jo Hale, Senior Research Associate at UCL Centre for Behaviour Change This event is part of UCL's climate campaign ‘Generation One'. Together we are the new generation taking responsibility for climate action and turning science into actionable ideas. Join our new era of climate action at ucl.ac.uk/generation-one

As the holidays approach, we are being reminded of the fragility of the global supply chain. But at the same time, the supply chain itself is a truly impressive and fascinating structure, made as it is from multiple components that must work together in synchrony. From building an item in a factory and shipping it worldwide to transporting it locally, processing it in a distribution center, and finally delivering it to an address, the system is simultaneously awe-inspiring and deeply dehumanizing. I talk with Christopher Mims about how things are made, how they get to us, and what it all means for the present and future of our work and our lives.Support Mindscape on Patreon.Christopher Mims received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University. He is currently a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal. He has previously written for publications such as Wired, Scientific American, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian. His new book is Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door — Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy.Columns at The Wall Street JournalWikipediaTwitterSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

According to a new Swedish study recently published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, men spend their money on greenhouse gas-emitting goods and services, such as meat and fuel, at a much higher rate than women.  The study looked at the carbon emissions created by consumption among categories like food, clothing, furniture, and vacations to […]

Jesse Velay-Vitow joins Ash Milton to discuss how we can reconcile industrial disruption, ecological stewardship, and the destiny of our species. Topics include how people have terraformed the Earth for millennia, whether our society's risk tolerance is unacceptably low, and why we need a strong conception of telos to discipline humanity's world-making power. Jesse recently wrote about the consequences of inevitable climate change for civilization. The first half of the show is available to all our listeners. The full discussion is available to Palladium Members. Members also get to participate in the Palladium Community Salons, which the editorial podcasts are often based on, as well as other benefits like the community chat. To become a Palladium Member, subscribe here.

Über Wasser hat Daniela bislang kaum nachgedacht, es ist einfach immer da. Doch die Sommer werden heißer, trockener und die Wasservorräte sinken auch bei uns. Daniela will wissen, wie sicher ihre Wasserversorgung ist.

A new study published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology has found that the total mass of electronic waste generated by Americans has been declining since 2015.  Given that electronic devices are playing an ever-growing role in our lives, this finding seems rather surprising.  It also seems like pretty good news, but the underlying facts […]

Green growth or Degrowth: climate action and human prosperity Julia Steinberger Professor of Ecological Economics, University of Lausanne Lisbon, 26 November 2020 New research from ecological economics shows that we need to rapidly physically degrow our economies to avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown. Green growth might have been at best a dream, at worst a narrative designed to delay action. What does this mean for human well-being and political action? Julia Steinberger Prof. Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology at the University of Lausanne (previously University of Leeds). Her research examines the connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing). She is interested in quantifying the current and historical linkages between resource use and socioeconomic parameters, and identifying alternative development pathways to guide the necessary transition to a low carbon society. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3. https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1553/professor-julia-steinberger https://profjuliasteinberger.wordpress.com https://medium.com/@JKSteinberger https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger Organised by CADA

On this episode we are covering a bunch of awesome topics on sustainable design with Dr. Babbitt who is a researcher and industrial ecologist. In the show we cover: 1. How Dr. Babbitt became interested in sustainability 2. The triple bottom line 3. Total life-cycle analysis of products 4. Modeling design solutions after nature 5. Food Waste 6. Sustainability policy

A conversation about industrial ecology, circular bioeconomy, patient capital and what they mean for cities. Dr Michael Lakeman is an industrial ecologist - he works on how energy and matter flow across the landscape and through the economy, and how building connections between disparate players and processes can lead to greater efficiency, resilience, and regenerative outcomes. For more info and the blog, visit www.projectmoonshot.city (Podcast music score - https://josephmcdade.com/music/lectro-tango)

Topics Mentioned:Food WasteFood InsecurityPlant-based Eating(Lack of) Transparency in the Food SystemSustainable and Ethical Consumerism

In this episode we’re meeting with chef Johan Gottberg, co-founder of the newly opened restaurant Restauranglabbet (The Restaurant Lab) located at Openlab in Stockholm and associate professor in Life Cycle Assessment and Industrial Ecology, Miguel Brandão at KTH. The restaurant works as an innovation arena where data is collected to explore how sustainable a restaurant can get.The team behind Restauranglabbet use life cycle assessment and measures and reports the environmental impact of the restaurants' activities to see how to optimize the operations. They are selling food by weight and have different strategies to limit food waste. But that is just the start. Hear more in the episode. Matlaboratoriet is a podcast from Openlab. Host is Per Styregård. Editorial staff: Elise Johanson, Ivar Björkman and Per Styregård. Produced by Soundtelling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Visitem o site para descobrirem mais sobre o meu trabalho na área da sustentabilidade: www.do-zero.pt Este podcast vem no seguimento da série #supermercadosemdesperdício, que estou a realizar em parceria (remunerada) com a Auchan. O artigo sobre a Produção Local que deu origem a este episódio e que mencionei encontra-se em: https://do-zero.pt/2019/09/supermercadosemdesperdicio-producao-local/ Os dados recolhidos e apresentados no podcast foram retirados de relatórios (públicos) das Nações Unidas, relatórios da EAT_Lancet Comission, da FAO e de investigações científicas e encontram-se em: - Ivanova, D., Stadler, K., Steen-Olsen, K., Wood, R., Vita, G., Tukker, A. and Hertwich, E. (2015). Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20(3), pp.526-536. - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2016). Food wastage footprint & Climate Change. [online] Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-bb144e.pdf - Lavaens, M. (2017). Do food miles really matter?. [online] Sustainability at Harvard. Available at: https://green.harvard.edu/news/do-food-miles-really-matter - Weber, C. and Matthews, H. (2008). Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States. Environmental Science & Technology, 42(10), pp.3508-3513. - Wakeland, W., Cholette, S. and Venkat, K. (2011). Food transportation issues and reducing carbon footprint. Food Engineering Series, pp.211-236. - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2017). The future of food and agriculture – Trends and challenges. [online] Rome. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6583e.pdf - FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (2014). Building a common vision for sustainable food and agriculture. PRINCIPLES AND APPROACHES. [online] Rome. Available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3940e.pdf - United Nations Global Compact, KPMG (2017). SDG INDUSTRY MATRIX. Transportation – New Sustainable Development Goals to make our world more: Prosperous • Inclusive • Sustainable • Resilient. [online] Available at: https://home.kpmg/content/dam/kpmg/xx/pdf/2017/05/sdg-transportation.pdf - SociSDG. (2019). SDG 2: Sustainable food production. [online] Available at: http://socisdg.com/en/blog/sdg-2-sustainable-food-production/ Para saberem mais sobre a produção local da Auchan, espreitem este link: https://auchaneeu.auchan.pt/ser-responsavel/produtores/ Para conhecerem melhor o projeto e como ""cheguei aqui"": do-zero.pt/manifesto/ Se gostam do conteúdo que crio e querem ajudar a levar este projeto a bom porto, podem tornar-se meus Patrons aqui: www.patreon.com/DoZero Deixo também o link do Buy me a Cofffee, de que vos falei no final do podcast - www.buymeacoffee.com/BJP0NIWVF

Visitem o site para descobrirem mais sobre o meu trabalho na área da sustentabilidade: www.do-zero.pt Artigo sobre a sobre-população, que mencionei no podcast - https://do-zero.pt/2019/09/a-sobrepopulacao-mito-ou-realidade/ Os dados ecolhidos e apresentados no podcast foram retirados de relatórios (públicos) das Nações Unidas, relatórios da EAT_Lancet Comission, da FAO, de relatórios da BP e de investigações científicas e encontram-se em: - 2019 United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2019 (https://population.un.org/wpp/Publications/) - http://www.fao.org/platform-food-loss-waste/en/ - https://eatforum.org/content/uploads/2019/07/EAT-Lancet_Commission_Summary_Report.pdf - Springmann et al (2018). Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits. Nature, 562(7728), pp.519-525. - https://www.bp.com/content/dam/bp/business-sites/en/global/corporate/pdfs/energy-economics/statistical-review/bp-stats-review-2019-full-report.pdf - Ivanova, D., Stadler, K., Steen-Olsen, K., Wood, R., Vita, G., Tukker, A. and Hertwich, E. (2015). Environmental Impact Assessment of Household Consumption. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 20(3), pp.526-536. Para conhecerem melhor o projeto e como ""cheguei aqui"": https://do-zero.pt/manifesto/ Se gostam do conteúdo que crio e querem ajudar a levar este projeto a bom porto, podem tornar-se meus Patrons aqui: https://www.patreon.com/DoZero Deixo também o link do Buy me a Cofffee, de que vos falei no final do podcast - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BJP0NIWVF

Watch What You Eat... Today's topics include:...especially if you're White. The Journal of Industrial Ecology did the research, and they found that white people are ruining the planet based on their diets. Food like beef, milk, and potatoes are all problem causers...; next, Beth Akers (senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute) discusses a piece she wrote, detailing how we need to start empowering potential college students with information on just what their higher education will produce for the amount of debt they are willing to take on; Eric Adelson (sports contributor for the Washington Post) joins the show to talk with John about how Mario Lemieux's son helped carry Arizona State to their first NCAA hockey tournament; and finally, it's the final day for our Food For the Poor Campaign. John talks to Angel Aloma (executive director for Food For the Poor) about the major crisis people of Haiti are facing and what you can do to help.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of the Circular Metabolism Podcast, we were very excited to catch up with David Wachsmuth during the conference Brussels Ecosystem. David is the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance at McGill University, where he is also an Assistant Professor in the School of Urban Planning and an Associate Member in the Department of Geography. He is an urban political economist whose research interests include city and regional governance, urban sustainability, housing policy, social theory, and the politics of urban public space. In 2012, David wrote an influential paper in the urban metabolism realm entitled: Three ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition.During this episode, we discuss how the urban metabolism metaphor was used over the years and it is a not necessarily a fleshed out method but a working metaphor to describe the relationships between urban areas and the environment.We take a closer look at how urban political ecology helps us to understand what happens when flows enter and exit cities and who benefits from them. For instance, in the case of water supply you take a river and follow it to understand who uses it and how. In the case of New York City, it historically covered its water needs through the Hudson river and in order to secure its supply it ended up buying all upstream lands and shutting off polluting industries. We can imagine that while this was possible some centuries ago, today with the globalisation of our supply chains this is unthinkable but puts forward a number of governance questions between cities and their hinterland which are not yet in place.In the future, urban metabolism will have to focus on the interfaces and boundaries between urban areas and their hinterlands as well as their transitions and transformations. It will have to integrate the quantitative part of industrial ecology and the political focus of urban political ecology.Enjoy this episode and don’t forget to visit our website www.circularmetabolism.com to find all of our activities and productions. Also, make sure subscribe to your favourite app including Youtube, iTunes, Spotify and Stitcher to avoid missing any new episode. Finally, leave us a comment or a review to help us improve our podcast.Link to the paper “Three Ecologies: Urban Metabolism and the Society-Nature Opposition”Link to David’s presentation at the Brussels Ecosystem conferenceLinks to David Wachsmuth website – twitter

Our guest this episode is Professor Roland Clift who helped develop the discipline of Industrial Ecology. If you enjoy this episode, please share it with friends and give us a review on iTunes. In this episode, we discuss; Ethics around, engineering, sustainability and the built environment. The established legal principal that “I was only following […]

On our latest episode of the Governance Podcast, Professor Mark Pennington interviews Professor Frans Berkhout of King's College London on his latest book about climate governance. Tune in for a rich discussion on the limits of international coordination and how local experimentation can solve global commons dilemmas. Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket. The Guest Frans Berkhout is Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy and Professor of Environment, Society and Climate at King's College London. He joined the Department of Geography at King's in 2013. From 2013-2015 he was Director of the Future Earth programme, based at the International Council for Science (ICSU) in Paris. Before that, Prof Berkhout directed the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the VU University Amsterdam in The Netherlands and led the Amsterdam Global Change Institute. He has also held posts at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex, and was Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council's Global Environmental Change and Sustainable Technologies programmes. Among other advisory roles, Professor Berkhout was a lead author in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (2014) and a member of the Social Science Panel of the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. He sits on the editorial boards of Research Policy, Global Environmental Change, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions and The Anthropocene Review. Follow Us For more information about our upcoming podcasts and events, follow us on facebook or twitter (@csgskcl). Skip Ahead  00:45: What was the motivation for your latest book? 5:15: What is experimentation in your framework? Is climate governance experimentation different from scientific experimentation? 10:15: Can you combine top down and bottom up approaches to climate governance? 15:25: Why do people at the local level take action on climate change? 19:35: How do local networks of experimentation get off the ground and get connected globally? 21:30: Some say that focusing on an experimental approach can serve as an excuse for a lack of coordination on climate change policy at the global scale. Others say global coordination is too slow and cumbersome. Can we reconcile this tension? 27:25: Do we always want local experiments to ripple out to a broader scale? Would they stop having contextual relevance? 31:45: What evidence do we have that local experiments are having a broader, more global effect? 35:00: Are we abandoning global coordination? Is there still a role for international policy? 39:17: What role does interdisciplinarity play in the study of climate change governance? 42:18: Do we have examples of networks of academic actors that experiment in social science approaches to climate governance? 45:03: What are the next research avenues for climate governance? 45:45: Are social scientists equipped to oversee the experiments? Are academics themselves complex enough to understand governance?

Industrial ecology is the study of industrial systems through the lens of ecology. We go over a book that I've had on the subject for a while, and a few articles from the journal Industrial Ecology. 3D Printing and Industrial Ecology The Ecolabel Fable Adapting Stand-Alone Renewable Energy Technologies for the Circular Economy through Eco-Design and Recycling Corals May Have a Taste for Dangerous Plastic

This week, we're going back to a previous episode and looking across the Periodic Table and assessing the scarcity of modern society's essential elements. We're joined by Dr. Thomas Graedel, Director of the Center for Industrial Ecology at Yale University, to talk about the rare metals that play a role in our electronic devices. We'll speak to physics Professor Dr. Moses Hung-Wai Chan about our dwindling supply of helium. And we'll talk about the phosphorous that plays a critical role in modern agriculture, with ecology professor Dr. James Elser, co-organizer of the Sustainable Phosphorus Initiative at Arizona State University.

Conferencia magistral impartida en el marco de la Cátedra Andrés Marcelo Sada en Conservación y Desarrollo Sostenible, el 5 de noviembre de 2015. John Ehrenfeld es pionero en el tema de ecología industrial y autor de los libros "Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability" y "Sustainability by Design"

Mesa redonda y encuentro con la comunidad. 4 de noviembre de 2015. Participantes: -John Erenfeld: Autor del libro: "Sustainability by Design" y Editor del Journal of Industrial Ecology. -Carlos Gómez: Vice Presidente Nacional de Desarrollo Sustentable y Responsabilidad Social de la Cámara Nacional de la Industria de Transformación. -Alfonso Martínez Muñoz: Subsecretario de Protección al Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de Nuevo León. -Rolando Ibarra: Director del Instituto para la Protección Ambiental de Nuevo León.

This episode corresponds to Lesson 3 and Lesson 5  of our online course. This week we’re taking a trip down under, to highlight new and exciting recycling program created by the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) of New South Wales, Australia. The program, called the Industrial Ecology Business Support Network, aims to facilitate and encourage the reuse of industrial... Read more »

Andrew Mangan, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD), spoke at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies on Wednesday, March 6, 2014. The talk, "By-Product Synergy as a Competitive Strategy: Creating Value through Resource Reuse," is organized by the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Program. In its 23rd year, the IEM Lecture Series brings speakers from companies and organizations to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies to discuss the relationship between business and the environment. This year, the lecture series explores Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage. Concepts such as loop-closing, by-product exchange, and sustainable supply chain management and tools such as life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis are characteristic of the field of industrial ecology. The lecture series brings business executives to campus to discuss how their use of these approaches affects their company?s strategy, profitability, and position in the market. The US BCSD is a regional partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a global network of 200 international companies, with members representing 30 countries and 20 major industrial sectors. The US BCSD pursues sustainable development projects focusing in five areas: By-Product Synergy; Business, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services; Energy Efficiency in Buildings; US-China EcoPartnership; and Water. Mr. Mangan provides strategic leadership and oversight on the US BCSD?s projects and is an active member of the Education Committee for the International Society of Industrial Ecology, a member of the Advisory Committee for the Environmental Science Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and serves on the board of the Foundation for Sustainable Development. He holds a master?s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he attended the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs as an International Fellow. Ongoing funding for the IEM Lecture Series is provided by the Joel Omura Kurihara Fund. For more information about the lecture series, please see http://cie.research.yale.edu/events/about-iem-lecture-series or contact us at cie@yale.edu

Chris Yura, Founder and President of SustainU, was invited as a guest speaker to the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies as part of the Industrial Environmental Management (IEM) Lecture Series. The theme for 2012-2013 is "Industrial Ecology as a Source of Competitive Advantage." Mr. Yura's innovative sourcing of waste fabrics provides a compelling story of future changes in the garment industry.

Abstract: Cities account for approximately two-thirds of global primary energy demand and accordingly, there has been an increased focus on modelling urban energy supply and demand. In this talk, Dr. Keirstead will present some results from the BP Urban Energy Systems project at Imperial College London and look at what's been happening in the field at large. The emerging picture is one of hybrid methodologies, specifically combining optimization and simulation techniques to develop an understanding of urban energy use from initial master planning through to daily operations. Biography: Dr James Keirstead is a Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London. His research focuses on the integrated modelling of urban energy systems and the links between urban form, consumer behaviour, public policy, technical systems, and resource consumption. He is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Energy Institute, Board Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology's Sustainable Urban Systems section, and a Member of the British Institute of Energy Economics.

Brad Allenby joined ASU in 2004 after spending over twenty years working for AT&T as counsel, senior environmental counsel, research vice president for technology and environment, and environment, health and safety vice president. During that period he also served for two years as Director of Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and as the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Forestry, Columbia University ’s School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia ’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His principal areas of research and teaching include: design for environment; earth systems engineering and management; industrial ecology; NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive sciences) convergence and technological evolution. He has received a number of honors and distinctions such as being named the Herbert Holloman Fellow with the National Academy of Engineering, 1991–1992, a Fellow with the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1999–present, and the President for the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2004–present. Some of his most recent publications include: Reconstructing Earth (2005); Industrial Ecology, 2nd ed. (2004, Co–authored with T.E. Graedel and has been published in Russian and Chinese); and Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (1999).

Brad Allenby joined ASU in 2004 after spending over twenty years working for AT&T as counsel, senior environmental counsel, research vice president for technology and environment, and environment, health and safety vice president. During that period he also served for two years as Director of Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and as the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering. He also taught as an adjunct professor at Yale University School of Forestry, Columbia University ’s School of International and Public Affairs, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Virginia ’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His principal areas of research and teaching include: design for environment; earth systems engineering and management; industrial ecology; NBIC (nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technology, and cognitive sciences) convergence and technological evolution. He has received a number of honors and distinctions such as being named the Herbert Holloman Fellow with the National Academy of Engineering, 1991–1992, a Fellow with the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, 1999–present, and the President for the International Society for Industrial Ecology, 2004–present. Some of his most recent publications include: Reconstructing Earth (2005); Industrial Ecology, 2nd ed. (2004, Co–authored with T.E. Graedel and has been published in Russian and Chinese); and Industrial Ecology: Policy Framework and Implementation (1999).