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Environment and Business
Course Overview
Instructor: Jerry Patchell; [email protected]
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00-14:00 Room 2352A
TA: Kaxton Siu; [email protected]
Office Hours: Tue &Thu 10:30-11:30 am Room 3002
Design for Environment
“systematic consideration of design performance with respect to environmental, health, and safety objectives over the full product life cycle.”
That is: reduce, reuse, and recycle through the all the stages of a product’s lifecycle.
Why Design for Environment? Over 80% of a products environmental impacts are
decided by design.
Design integrates all the stages of the product cycle.
Design integrates all business activities related to the product, inside and outside a company.
Good and Services companies.
Integration: what is it?
The process of coordinating different elements for effective functioning of a whole system
In practical terms: Functional: making sure all the parts work
together to achieve the design goals Organizational: Assigning tasks to all members of
an organization to achieve the design goals
What has to be Integrated?
The firm into sustainable development The firm into industrial ecology Environmental management into the firm
Product design is how integration is done.
Sustainable Development
"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. ” (World Commission on Environment and Development 1987)
How can Business be Integrated into Sustainable Development?
Environment
EconomySociety
Sustainable Development as Integration
Industrial
Ecology
Technology
PoliticsSociety
Environment EnvironmentIndustrial
Ecology
Industrial
Ecology
Economy
Business
Environmental Management
What is industrial ecology?
1. An ideal to mimic the way the nature’s ecosystems function.
2. A framework of principles and practices that enables companies, governments, consumers, and NGOs to work together to achieve that ideal
UnlimitedResource Extraction
Materials Processing Production Consumption
UnlimitedDumping of Waste
The Linear Industrial System
Energy & material input
Waste & pollution output
An Ecosystem
PhotosynthesisSolar Energy
Detrivores
HerbivoresCarnivores
Air Land
Water
Principles of Industrial Ecology
Products, processes, services, and operations can produce residuals, but not waste.
Every process, product, facility, constructed infrastructure, and technological system should be planned to be adaptable to forseeable environmentally preferable innovations.
Every molecule that enters a specific manufacturing process should leave that process as a part of a salable product.
Every erg of energy used in manufacture should produce a desired material transformation.
Industries should make minimum use of materials and energy in products, processes, services, and operations.
Materials should be the least toxic for the purpose, all else equal.
Principles of Industrial Ecology con’tIndustries should get most of the needed materials through recycling
streams (theirs or those of others) rather than through raw materials extraction.
Every process, product, component, and part should be designed to preserve the embedded utility of the materials used.
Every product should be designed so that it can be used to create other useful products at the end of its current life.
Every industrial landholding, facility, or infrastructure system or component should be developed, constructed or modified to maintain or improve local habitats and species diversity, and to minimize impacts on local or regional resources.
Close interactions should be developed with materials suppliers, customers, and representatives of other industries, with the aim of developing cooperative ways of minimizing packaging and of recycling and reusing materials.
Principles of Industrial Ecology con’t
Or Waste equals food
Integration of Product, Material, & Energy Flow
in an Industry
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, land use,
electricity, etc.
Product, Material, & Energy Flow in an
Industry
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, land use,
electricity, etc.
Environmental Management
Environmental management is the planning and implementation of actions to reduce the environmental impacts of a organization.
Reduce, reuse, recycle, dispose of safely throughout business activities.
Coordination of DfE activities
Internal Process of a Firm
Energy and Materials
A CompanyProductsWaste energyWaste materials
DfEReduceReuse
Recycle
Environmental Management: integrating environmental improvement across
departmental and product boundaries
Support Activities
Human Resources
AccountingSite and Facilities
PurchasingResearch &
Development
Environment, Health & Safety
Primary Activities
Logistics Production Distribution Marketing
Integrating environmental improvements throughout a business’s divisions
and upstream and downstream in product cycle
Top Management
Product, Material, & Energy Flow in an
Industry
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, land use,
electricity, etc.
Environment and Business: an integrating approach
Chapter 1 Course Introduction: A Framework for Sustainable Business Chapter 2 Sustainable Business Chapter 3 Environmental Problems Chapter 4 Society Chapter 5 Technology Chapter 6 Environmental Economics Chapter 7 Environmental Politics Chapter 8 Challenge of Integration Chapter 9 Design for Environment Chapter 10 Impact Assessment Chapter 11 Environmental Management Chapter 12 Environmental Programs
$10,000 Prize
HKUST’s Green Campus Initiative Student Contest: best projects on the
environment
Syllabus on Website
http://teaching.ust.hk/~sosc217/
Why does business have to change?
How can a business make a difference?
Technological limits Knowledge limits Power limits Competitive limits Governance limits
How can a business make a difference?
Integration into a collective solution by integrating Design for Environment into a company Integration Sustainable Development Industrial Ecology Design for Environment Environmental Management
Integrate?
What does it mean? What has to be integrated? Integrated into what?
Environmental Management
Environmental management is the planning and implementation of actions to reduce the environmental impacts of a organization.
That is: reduce, reuse, recycle, dispose of safely.
Internal Process of a Firm
Energy and Materials
CompanyProductsWaste energyWaste materials
