The August edition of the ‘Freiburg Talks on Environment and Society’ featured a combined talk […]
Category: Industrial Ecology
On the future of scientific publishing for sustainability research
When I was introduced to industrial ecology about ten years ago, I never came across […]
Die deutsche Volkswirtschaft muss sich mindestens doppelt so schnell vom CO2 verabschieden wie bisher, wenn die Klimaziele für 2050 erreicht werden sollen
[English summary below] Als reiches Land mit hohen CO2-Emissionen pro Kopf trägt Deutschland eine besondere […]
Offene Forschungsinfrastruktur für Industrial Ecology
Um neue Forschungsfragen zur Nachhaltigkeit zu erschließen und Industrial Ecology als Forschungsfeld sichtbarer zu machen, […]
OASES Project Kickoff Meeting
The Swiss-funded research project OASES (Open assessment of Swiss economy and society) had its kickoff […]
Seminar “Mining and Industrial Ecology” with Stephen Northey
Tuesday, February 20, 4-5 p.m. Herderbau, R200. The mining industry provides many of the raw […]
Launching the Industrial Ecology Open Online Course (IEooc)
To raise the standard of industrial ecology research we need to offer more examples of […]
A note on the differences between process-based LCA and MRIO.
Process-based life cycle assessment (LCA) and monetary multiregional input-output (MRIO) models are widely applied to […]
The Circular Economy: Breakthrough or Distraction?
Our material footprint is expanding (Wiedmann et al., 2015), in-use stocks are growing (Müller et […]
Launching of the CircularSankey web application
Sankey diagrams are an important visualisation tool but drawing them is a tedious job. There […]
Growth of in-use stocks: Central obstacle to closing material cycles
Recycling, re-use, and remanufacturing are central sustainable development strategies. In most cases, they save both: […]
Wenn das Verfehlen von Klimazielen gut für’s Klima ist. Oder: Wie weit ist es bis zur Nachhaltigkeit?
Die Höhe der tatsächlichen CO2-Emissionen und die sonstigen Umweltauswirkungen von Elektromobilität sind derzeit ein heiß […]
The lifetime of materials in the technosphere
We often hear the claim that metals can be recycled indefinitely often, without loss of […]
Wanted: Lead Indicators for the Circular Economy in Organizations
The circular economy now has a guiding standard for its implementation in organizations. It is […]
Sustainability scientists: Make research results available!
Researchers and stakeholders in sustainability science and industrial ecology in particular often find it difficult […]
Young researcher seminar on Material Flow Analysis and sustainable material cycles
on June 12 and 13th, IEF hosted a 1 1/2 day workshop on Material Flow […]
Inclusion of consumption as a way to fix the problem of free allocations in emissions trading – An application of material flow cost accounting to climate policy
Summary: A new policy proposal submitted by Karsten Neuhoff and colleagues recommends charging consumers of […]
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Soll Milch in Tetrapaks oder in Pfandflaschen verkauft werden? Sind Elektroautos wirklich besser für die […]
Workshop about the interface between openLCA and Python
On February 27 and 28, three researchers from Industrial Ecology Freiburg joined the GreenDelta team […]
Guest lecture by Prof. Tommy Wiedmann, UNSW
Yesterday, Tommy (Thomas) Wiedmann, associate professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at […]