Industrial Ecology Course

Fall 2004 Best Term Papers in Course EAEE Industrial Ecology of Earth Resources

• An Assessment of the Department of Energy’s "Zero Energy Homes" Initiative Based on Photovoltaics Technology and Cost Predictions, Christopher Graves (2004)
   
• Effect of mercury emissions in China on North America, Brian Weiss (2004)

Resources for Industrial Ecology

Regulatory and Business Drivers

• Ecolabel, http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/ecolabel/
   

• WEEE directive text, http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/pri/en/oj/dat/2003/l_037/l_03720030213en00240038.pdf
   

• EC Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and EC Directive on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment (ROHS), Department of Trade and industry update, UK http://164.36.164.20/sustainability/weee/index.htm
   

• International Standards Organization (ISO) 14000 Series: ISO has set international standards for product quality (ISO 9000 series) and other areas of commercial activity amongst nations. The ISO 14000 series intends to set environmental standards for products and services traded internationally.
   

• Dow Jones Sustainability Index: "The Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index (DJSGI) family is derived from and fully integrated with the Dow Jones Global Indexes. The DJSGI consist of more than 200 companies that represent the top 10% of the leading sustainability companies in 64 industry groups in the 33 countries covered by the DJGI."

Environmental Metrics

• Pré Consultants, " The Eco-indicator99: A damage oriented method for Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Manual for Designers ," http://www.pre.nl/eco-indicator99/index.html
   

• The Eco-Indicator 95 : A Tool for Designers, Product Ecology Consultants http://www.pre.nl/eco-ind.html 

Life Cycle

• Plastics data APME.org, products & topics
   

• Building data http://www.bfrl.nist.gov/oae/software/bees.html
   

• SETAC Life Cycle Assessment Advisory Group, http://www.setac.org/lca.html
   

• Economic Input Output Life Cycle Assessment, http://eiolca.net

Cost

• EPA cost accounting:  http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/acctg/resources.htm    

Extended Product Responsibility, Corporate Product Stewardship

• USEPA, Making a Business Case for Extended Product Responsibility: A Snapshot of Leading Practices and Tools , April 1999, http://www.epa.gov/oppt/acctg/pubs/busmgt.pdf
   

• Plastics cost data - http://www.plasticstechnology.com/dp/pt/resins.cfm
   

• EPA - http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/reduce/epr/index.htm

Product Delivery and Use

• Transportation -  http://www.epa.gov/OMSWWW/omshome.htm
   

• Transportation models - http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models.htm

DFE and Green Manufacturing

• Implementing Design for Environment: A Primer, Technology, Business and the Environment Program, MIT, ca 1996 http://tbe.mit.edu/primer.html
   

• Green Products by Design:  Choices for a Cleaner Environment", US Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, OTA-E-541, US Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., October 1992, http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1992/9221_n.html
   

• WTEC report on Environmentally Benign Manufacturing, http://www.wtec.org/loyola/ebm/
   

• Pratt & Whitney Green Engine Program: Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp, is a world leader in the design and manufacture of aircraft engines, gas turbines and space propulsion systems. The Green Engine Program applies industrial ecology concepts to a corporate model in an effort to identify and lessen the environmental impacts of Pratt & Whitney's operations. The program is structured as a matrix organization that draws on people from the design, technology, and operations components of P&W, as well as from supplier and customer organizations.

Earth Science Resources

• Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University. CIESIN was "established in 1989 as a non-profit, non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand their changing world." CIESIN provides interactive applications such as census data mapping, integrated assessment models of climate change, and others as well as a variety of data resources.
   

• Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University

Journals

• Journal of Industrial Ecology: "An international, multi-disciplinary quarterly designed to foster both understanding and practice in the emerging field of industrial ecology." Published by The MIT Press.
   

• International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, http://www.scientificjournals.com/sj/lca
   

• Environmental Science & Technology, http://pubs.acs.org/journals/esthag/index.html