Industrial Ecology for All
Industrial Ecology is a systems approach to transforming the traditional process of extraction, production, consumption, and waste into a closed-loop, sustainable process modeled after nature.
Industrial Ecology is a systems approach to transforming the traditional process of extraction, production, consumption, and waste into a closed-loop, sustainable process modeled after nature.
How can we track where materials come and go across the Earth?
How can one company's waste become another company's resource?
How can we make greener choices to support our environmental systems?
Meet Material Flow Analysis, an investigative tool of Industrial Ecology that tracks the material cycles in our economies. You will learn how to build a Material Flow Analysis from scratch using Microsoft Excel and Python. No worries, this class is for programming beginners, so a lack of prior coding experience is not a problem.
This seminar takes a deep dive into the development processes, approaches, and performance of Industrial Symbiosis projects by learning from leading professionals and scholars on almost every continent.
This course is an overview of life cycle thinking, the fundamental theory of Life Cycle Assessment framework, and practical applications in supporting real-world decision-making.