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Sustainable Development as Integration
Industrial
Ecology
Technology
PoliticsSociety
Environment EnvironmentIndustrial
Ecology
Industrial
Ecology
Economy
Business
Environmental Management
Product, Material, & Energy Flow in an Industrial Ecology
ResourceExtraction
MaterialsProcessing
PartsManufacture
ProductAssembly
Distribution
Consumption
MaterialsCollection
Recycling
Social Infrastructure:Gov’t, industry assoc.s,
NGOs, etc.
Material & Energy Inputs
Pollution Outputs
Physical Infrastructure:roads, sewers, electricity,
land-use, etc.
Product System Hierarchy
Materials, parts and components End-product Physical infrastructure Land-use patterns
Environmental Impacts of Centralized Infrastructures
pollution and energy loss involved with the transportation of fuels, materials, solid waste, and sewage;
the landscape and habitat damage resulting from more roads, pipelines, power lines, canals, ports, bridges etc.;
the materials, energy, and pollution costs of building infrastructure;
the energy and pollution costs resulting from demolition,remediation, and disposal.
Alternative (Distributed) Infrastructures Energy: biomass, solar, wind, fuel cells, gas turbines,
tidal, geothermal, waste generated gas; storage devices (e.g. flywheels, water, hydrogen), waste heat and cool air
Water and sewage: wetland, biological sewage and brown water treatment, water recycling
Telecommunications: wireless communications (mobiles, wi-fi)
Solid waste: collecting facilities, recycling facilities, waste exchanges
Transportation: mixed land use, walking, cycling, public transport
**Regulatory reform, cooperation, institution building
Distributed Infrastructures Efficient end-use Small-scaled fueled (co) generations Cheap kilo-watt-scale fuel cells New fuels Cheap, easy to use renewable sources Distributed energy storage Electricity grid improvements Pervasive information Competition Shifts in electricity providers’ mission, structure, and culture Over 200 economic benefits
Fuel Cells as promising technology
Fuel Cells as subsystem within a product system
Fuel Cells as subsystem within a product system
Living Machines
treat waste water by replicating ecosystem processes accelerates nature's own water purification process, without using
chemicals, by incorporating helpful bacteria, plants, snails and fish that thrive by breaking down and digesting organic pollutants.
costs of wastewater surcharges, water purchases, sludge disposal, chemical treatment; storage costs can be reduced below conventional systems; is expandable.
Enables owners and communities to embrace a natural model and enjoy a beautiful garden that can grow cut flowers, house plants and in some cases vegetables
Open Aerobic Reactor
What are the infrastructure needs of your company?
What kind of physical infrastructure (roads, electricity, other fuels, sewage, buildings,recycling systems, etc) does your company need or could it convert to?
Should you work with the government, other companies (competitors, suppliers, distributors, recyclers), or NGOs to build these infrastructures?
What kind of values can be created at each stage of the industrial loop to ensure transaction are undertaken?
What kind of regulatory, guideline, membership, or social conditions are necessary to ensure that transactions are undertaken?