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Providing decent living standards for all is possible within the just and safe space
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

Providing decent living standards for all is possible within the just and safe space

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 28th November 2025
  • 0

[post written by Dr. Johan Vélez] One of the major challenges of mankind is to […]

2025 IEDC critical mass sprint
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Science

2025 IEDC critical mass sprint

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 3rd March 2025
  • 1

2025 is the year when we move the industrial ecology data commons prototype, launched in […]

Rede zum Klimastreik am 14.2.25 in Freiburg – Speech given at the climate demonstration in Freiburg, Feb. 14, 2025
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Rede zum Klimastreik am 14.2.25 in Freiburg – Speech given at the climate demonstration in Freiburg, Feb. 14, 2025

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 14th February 2025
  • 1

[for an English translation, see below] Hallo Klimademo! Die Mechanismen des Klimawandels und seine Folgen […]

Socio-Economic Metabolism – An Overview
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Socio-Economic Metabolism – An Overview

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 30th October 2024
  • 1

Materials are at the basis of human society [1]. Urbanization, industrialization and growing consumption drive […]

From knowledge to action – climate protection in everyday life
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

From knowledge to action – climate protection in everyday life

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 21st September 2024
  • 0

Veggie burgers, cargo bikes, packaging-free living – there are plenty of ideas and products to […]

Research travel-related GHG emissions of our group
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

Research travel-related GHG emissions of our group

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 17th December 2023
  • 0

Industrial Ecology Freiburg is an international research group with collaborations across many countries and several […]

Major update of the industrial ecology data commons
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Science

Major update of the industrial ecology data commons

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 16th November 2023
  • 0

The industrial ecology data commons (iedc) is a prototype for an industrial ecology community database. […]

How will a sustainable circular economy look like?
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Science
  • Sustainable consumption

How will a sustainable circular economy look like?

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 1st June 2023
  • 0

Sustainability, with its environmental, social, and economic dimension, needs to be made tangible and operational […]

Seminar on Sustainable Development Beyond Green Growth
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Science
  • Sustainable consumption

Seminar on Sustainable Development Beyond Green Growth

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 9th April 2023
  • 2

We know that a ‘greening’ of current economic practices will not suffice to achieve global […]

A dialogue with ChatGPT on stocks and flows
  • Industrial Ecology

A dialogue with ChatGPT on stocks and flows

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 7th April 2023
  • 2

Describing phenomena in a system definition is a basic step for understanding, assessing, and modelling […]

Material Footprint Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Material Footprint Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 30th October 2022
  • 1

Energy scarcity and material abundance characterize the current global economy. Demand for energy services in […]

Uni Freiburg: Tiefgreifende Nachhaltigkeitstransformation nötig
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Uncategorised

Uni Freiburg: Tiefgreifende Nachhaltigkeitstransformation nötig

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 22nd June 2022
  • 3

Vom 20.6. bis zum 27.6. besetzte das Kollektiv von Studierenden „Transformations-Universität 2.0“ den Hörsaal 1010, […]

Scientists Urge to Integrate Energy-Metal Nexus into Carbon Neutrality Pledges
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Scientists Urge to Integrate Energy-Metal Nexus into Carbon Neutrality Pledges

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 18th June 2022
  • 0

Carbon neutrality requires systematic transformations and revolutions of both energy and metal systems. Countries, cities, […]

Sustainability and Transitions Research: Taking the High Road
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Science

Sustainability and Transitions Research: Taking the High Road

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 2nd June 2022
  • 4

In a recent opinion paper, [1] Julian Kirchherr complains about that “up to 50% of […]

Chancen und Grenzen der Ressourceneffizienz
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Sustainable consumption

Chancen und Grenzen der Ressourceneffizienz

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 26th May 2022
  • 0

Der Lebensstil der Mittelklasse in den reichen Industrienationen ist mit derzeitigen Konsummustern und industriellen Technologien […]

Material flow accounting and material footprints: System definition and data sources
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle
  • Sustainable consumption

Material flow accounting and material footprints: System definition and data sources

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 20th April 2022
  • 0

Material flow accounting (MFA) (Fischer-Kowalski et al. 2011) is a method to systematically compile data […]

Studie zu Materialverbrauch, Energiebedarf und Klimaauswirkungen des geplanten Stadtteils „Dietenbach“ in Freiburg
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Studie zu Materialverbrauch, Energiebedarf und Klimaauswirkungen des geplanten Stadtteils „Dietenbach“ in Freiburg

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 17th March 2022
  • 2

Klimawandel und Wohnungsmangel machen die Untersuchung der Klimaauswirkungen von Neubauprojekten zu einem wichtigen Thema. Der […]

Tech tips for live-streaming classroom lectures and seminars
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Tech tips for live-streaming classroom lectures and seminars

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 24th November 2021
  • 0

After one and a half year into the Corona pandemic, at many German universities, videoconferencing […]

Seminar des Instituts für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie
  • Science

Seminar des Instituts für Umweltsozialwissenschaften und Geographie

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 1st November 2021
  • 0

Seminar of the Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography It’s time for the members […]

Direct air capture of CO2 – A potential building block but not a wildcard
  • Industrial Ecology
  • Material Cycle

Direct air capture of CO2 – A potential building block but not a wildcard

  • Stefan Pauliuk
  • 1st November 2021
  • 0

As I am writing these lines, the supposed climate leaders of the world meet at […]

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