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The evolution of consumer electronic waste in the United States
03 Nov 2021
Shahana Althaf and Callie Babbitt
Today we live in a technology-dependent world, where new electronics are constantly flooding the market and consumers are tempted to upgrade their working gadgets with newer and shinier models. As a result, news articles and academic studies have warned of...
Community Solar Prioritization Tool
25 Feb 2021
My Center - the California Center for Sustainable Communities, https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/ccsc/ -- has just recently launched a new tool.
The solar opportunity map is a web tool built to assist community-based organizations to find the best places for community solar or resiliency centers...
Mapping urban material flows with freight data
09 Jul 2020
This blog post is part of a series on the 2019 Graedel Prize Winners. Read the other blog post here: An indicator framework for monitoring progress towards a circular economy.
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From the parcel containing your latest online purchase to the concrete and...
An indicator framework for monitoring progress towards a circular economy
09 Jul 2020
This blog post is part of a series on the 2019 Graedel Prize Winners. Read the other blog post here: Mapping urban material flows with freight data.
From left to right: Fridolin Krausmann, Andreas Mayer, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Willi Haas (not shown: co-Authors Philip Nuss and Gian Andrea...
The COVID-19 Response: The challenges and promise for input-output modeling and related disciplines
09 Apr 2020 in
Environmentally Extended Input Output Section (Input-Output)
Nations around the world are taking unprecedented measures to control the spread of the COVID-19 disease. The measures include shutting down large sectors of the economy leaving only ‘essential’ services like medical care and food supply operating, requiring or requesting that...
Call for joint research about the environmental consequences of the COVID-19 effect
26 Mar 2020
I hope you are all in good health. I'm writing this post to suggest that we joint forces on collaborative research across nations related to the consequences of the COVID-19 spread on daily behavior and its potential environmental impact. The sudden “Corona Revolution” created an...
Let’s forget about “the” circular economy indicator
21 Aug 2019 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Have you been thinking of ”circular economy” indicators lately? A lot of us have, and we think the industrial ecology community has an important role to play in this debate. Today, the suggestions for monitoring a circular economy are scattered and the objectives go apart. Given the...
13th ISIE SEM Conference stats and group picture
23 May 2019 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Last week we had our 13th conference of the socio-economic metabolism section of the ISIE, from 13-15 May in Harnack Haus, Berlin. We were a little bit late - the conference was originally planned for 2018 - but I hope it was worth the wait for most. It definitely was for me! Thanks to a great team...
Research infrastructure needs for industrial ecology - Some reflections to spur a discussion during this year’s conference season.
09 May 2019 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
The future of industrial ecology research will be more collaborative. Tackling pressing research questions with high quality science will require more work and knowledge than what the typical PhD candidate-postdoc-supervisor constellation can encompass, and deep collaboration in large...
Choice of Allocations and Constructs for Attributional or Consequential Life Cycle Assessment and Input‐Output Analysis - 2017 Graedel Prize Blog Post Series
11 Dec 2018
This blog post is part of a series on the 2017 Graedel Prize Winners. Read the other blog post here: Circular Economy Rebound..
Back to the basics
The question "What are the life-cycle impacts of product x?" is problematic. It does convey the ambition to take into account both direct and...
Circular Economy Rebound - 2017 Graedel Prize Blog Post Series
11 Dec 2018
This blog post is part of a series on the 2017 Graedel Prize Winners. Read the other blog post here: Choice of Allocations and Constructs for Attributional or Consequential Life Cycle Assessment and Input‐Output Analysis..
Questioning conventional thinking is never easy. In the case of the...
Award Ceremony honors Marina Fischer-Kowalski
12 Sep 2018
On 10 September 2018, the Austrian Fund for Science (FWF) hosted a symposium on Social Ecology at the BEOPEN science festival in front of the Museum for Natural History in Vienna. At the event, Marina Fischer-Kowalski was presented with the ISIE Society Prize, a prestigious award with which the...