(SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY) - (ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

AND INNOVATION)

WHY…

"why would not our industrial system behave like an ecosystem, where the wastes of a species may be resource to another species? Why would not the outputs of an industry be the inputs of another, thus reducing use of raw materials, pollution, and saving on waste treatment?“

The “green consumers”

FACT…

• Bringing every person in this planet up to the Canadian standard of living, would require 3 times the productive land per capita available on Earth!

Industrial Ecology

• Industrial Ecology approaches problems with the hypothesis that by using similar principles as natural systems, industrial systems can be improved to reduce their impact on the natural environment as well.

The Idea…

4 Principles • All industrial operations are natural systems and

function within the constraints of the biosphere

• The dynamics of the ecosystem is a guidance in the design and management of industrial systems

• The source of economic value is the long term viability of the planet

How we create ecosystems…?• Enabling materials and energy cycling among companies

through co-location, a waste exchange information system and decomposer business which use or trade second hand material

• Relating buildings and the park as a whole of the natural environment (passive solar heating)

• Making and reporting-information-feadback system between companies about energy required , wastes and materials

How to Occur this innovation…?

• pollution taxes

• environmental performance standards

• firms with reveal superior environmental technologies

•Environment•Organism•Natural Product•Natural Selection•Ecosystem•Ecological Niche•Anabolism / Catabolism•Mutation and Selection•Succession•Adaptation•Food Web

•Market•Company•Industrial Product•Competition•Eco-Industrial Park•Market Niche•Manufacturing / Waste Management•Design for Environment•Economic Growth•Innovation•Product Life Cycle

Current Perspective • Customer: The buyer of the product, and the victim of all

externalities; or all stakeholders.

• Company: Satisfy customer needs in an Satisfy customer needs at profit.’ environmentally sustainable way, while earning a profit.

• Government: An ally in the creation of a sus- tainable economy to work and managed.

• Demand: The redirection of demand towards products with low levels of extematility production.

Environmental Design

Re-Utilization of Stage 2 Outputs and 1

INPUTS Raw Materials

TRANSFORMATION

Production of Good or Service Waste Disposal Maintenance By Products

OUTPUTS STAGE 1

Good / Service Ultility and Use

OUTPUTS STAGE 2

Recycling Tranportation Product Disposal

Motive for a business

• Use state regulations to move competitors away of the market (ARCO manager, 1990 USA)

• Reduction of producing costs through materials and energy efficiency, waste recycling

• techno-optimism and self regulating

• defensive orientation as the public will confront industry as the cause of all problems

• cooperation between industry and government

• pro-active industry based solutions

• by segmenting markets based on the consumer’s level of environmental involvement (Pedro’s Inc, USA)

IS0 14000

• IS0 14000 is a new set of formal inter-industry, international standards for environmental management being developed by the British Standards Institute and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (Johnannson, 1994/95).

EXAMPLES • Kalumbdordg in Denmark

• Huston Sheep Channel in Texas

• McDonald’s has cooperated with the Environmental Defense Fund to develop a waste reduction action plan along with other initiatives such as a corporate level environmental affairs officer and a design team whose goal is to reduce packaging

REEVENEUS…

Thank you!