31 Innovations for Maximum Resource Efficiency in Manufacturing
November 21, 2012 1 CommentThe amount of manufacturing in Germany is vast. To guarantee survival in the global rotation of who is who among industrial nations, companies in Germany are forced to innovate. Every company that aims to stay competitive has to innovate? Yes, of course. But that goes even more so for the ones in well-established economies, than for their emerging competitors. Since the nature of innovation is mu...
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6 Options to Maintain Current Lifestyles with Far Less Raw Materi ...
August 1, 2012 4 CommentsThere is this old, ever repeating view of humanity as a counter-productive force when it comes to nature conservation, and that action toward a sustainable world is therefore doomed to failure right from the start. This view seems tempting, since the reasoning makes sense at first sight. Even if we increased material efficiency noticeably, so it goes, the drastic growth in material demand will override any achievements. This view is what Julian Allwood and Jonathan Cullen called “with one eye open”. They wrote a comprehensive book about sustainable materials called “With Both Eyes Open,” avail...
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More Than Ecosystem Dynamics - Understanding the Different Concep ...
June 11, 2012 1 CommentThere are these technical terms - complicated words with Latin origins - that experts have used for ages without any outsider noticing. All of a sudden one of these terms magically manages to escape the academic ivory tower. Enjoying newly found freedom, the term slowly makes its way into the mainstream. But the road is long and hard, the poor term runs the risk of being misused. Resilience is one of these terms, a tricky little word with many meanings and different connotations. Resilience is now on the verge of making it to the masses. Well, maybe not the masses, but to a broader community o...
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Exploring the Environmental Effects of Electric Cars
November 8, 2011 1 CommentCan you imagine the weight of 1.8 billion tonnes? I can't. I can only try to put this number in relation to others. 1.8 billion tonnes, that's the weight of all carbon emissions caused by private transport in 2009. 1,8 billion tonnes, that's 6,4% of the total carbon emissions from fuel combustion, emitted by all countries and all sectors in 2009 (see IEA's 2011 "highlights" report on CO2 Emissions from Fuel Combustion, page 67). Sustainable Strategies: Drive Less, Use the Bus, Get an Electric Car 1,8 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, blown in the atmosphere, that's what happens whe...
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Refining Material Flow Analysis: The Arising of Input-Output Econ ...
October 20, 2011We can be proud of the great wealth of reliable, good quality data that are being produced every day all over the world to inform policies, promote changes and monitor the progress of our societies. Is what proclamed Paul Cheung exactly one year ago. Paul Cheung is United Nations Statistics Division's director, and one year ago was the first world statistics day. So, resuming Cheung's message, statistics answer three purposes: informing policies, promoting changes and monitoring societal progress. In the age of a shrinking resource base and a pressing need to fight global warming, the task...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
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10 Appropriate Indicators to Measure Green Growth in Industry
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5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting
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How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
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ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell
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The Truth About the Dragon: China's Future is Inevitably Green
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Here's another noteworthy "MDPI Sustainability"-article asse ...
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