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Category: Material Cycle
How will a sustainable circular economy look like?
Sustainability, with its environmental, social, and economic dimension, needs to be made tangible and operational […]
Material Footprint Implications of Low-Carbon Technologies
Energy scarcity and material abundance characterize the current global economy. Demand for energy services in […]
Scientists Urge to Integrate Energy-Metal Nexus into Carbon Neutrality Pledges
Carbon neutrality requires systematic transformations and revolutions of both energy and metal systems. Countries, cities, […]
Material flow accounting and material footprints: System definition and data sources
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
Klimawandel und Wohnungsmangel machen die Untersuchung der Klimaauswirkungen von Neubauprojekten zu einem wichtigen Thema. Der […]
Direct air capture of CO2 – A potential building block but not a wildcard
As I am writing these lines, the supposed climate leaders of the world meet at […]
New Guidelines for Data Modeling and Data Integration for Material Flow Analysis
Material flow analysis (MFA) is booming. A large number of datasets are being compiled and […]
Short lifetime of metals in the anthroposphere illustrates the challenge of closing material cycles
“Metals can be recycled indefinitely.” That marketing phrase of the metal producers sounds plausible, as […]
Warum ist es so wichtig, Plastikverpackungen zu vermeiden?
Das frage ich mich allerdings auch! Eine Journalistikstudentin stellte mir diese Frage für ein Feature […]
Ist weniger mehr? Wie wir den Klimawandel bremsen können, indem wir Materialien besser nutzen.
Klimafreundliche Technologien und Lebensstile? Na logo: Elektroautos, Passivhäuser, Solarzellen auf dem Dach, weniger Fleisch, mehr […]
Introducing ODYM-RECC – A community model for circular economy and material efficiency assessments
The UNEP International Resource Panel Report (IRP) report on “RESOURCE EFFICIENCY AND CLIMATE CHANGE – […]
Launching the prototype of an Industrial Ecology Data Inventory
Re-using data and results from other peoples’ research is crucial to consistent and cumulative research, […]
Joint seminar with Vered Blass and Weiqian Chen
The August edition of the ‘Freiburg Talks on Environment and Society’ featured a combined talk […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]