Industrial Environmental Management
Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
Midwestern farming has injected the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers and more carbon dioxide annually into the Mississippi River during the past 50 years, according to a study published today in Nature by researchers at Yale and Louisiana State universities.Center for Green Chemistry & Engineering at Yale
The Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale is dedicated to advancing the theory and practice of Green Chemistry and Green Engineering. The Center conducts projects in developing new science, technology, educational opportunities, and policies, for the ultimate goal of increasing...
Flows and Fates of Discarded Copper in Sofia, Bulgaria, and New Haven, CT, USA
Diana Dimitrova,* Jason Rauch,* RobertGordon,** and T.E.Graedel*
Copper In-Use Stock and Copper Scrap in the State of Connecticut, USA
A “bottom-up”assessment of the in-use stocks of copper in the State of Connecticut, circa 2000,yields an overall result of approximately 540 Gg (thousand metric tons) of copper,or 157 kg for every person in the State
Industrial Symbiosis in Action
Report on the Third International Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium Birmingham,England,August5-6,2006 D.Rachel Lombardi,School of Engineering,University of Birmingham,UK Peter Laybourn, National Industrial Symbiosis Programme,UK, EDITORS Order a print copyProgram to Encourage 'Green' Industry in Developing Countries
A Yale research team is introducing a program that will encourage the adoption of environmentally friendly industrial activity in developing countries.Journal Examines the Global Impact of Cities
Cutting-edge research on the global impact of cities is the focus of a special issue of Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology.
Podcast: Green to Gold
In Green to Gold, Dan Esty, director of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale, discusses how smart companies are incorporating environmental concerns into their business strategies. Leading companies worldwide have discovered that thinking green can generate value for their brands and do wonders for the bottom line.
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Raphaële Préget Laboratory of Forest Economics, Nancy, France Timber Auctions and Stumpage Appraisal: Some Perspectives from French Public Sales Raphaële Préget is a Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Laboratory of Forest Economics, Nancy,...
Yale Journal Identifies Products and Activities with Greatest Environmental Impact
Cutting-edge research identifying the types of products that cause the most environmental damage is the focus of a special issue of Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology. The activities and product groups that cause 70 percent to 80 percent of the total environmental impact in society are...Course Descriptions - Environmental Management and Technology
Environmental Management and Technology F&ES 96006a, Greening the Industrial Facility. 4 credits. Industrial environmental managers need to be familiar with the technological processes by which modern society accomplishes its purposes, their potential to cause environmental damage,...
Silence is Golden, Leaden, and Copper
A Yale F&ES Report Robert Repetto Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 78 pages, 2004 Order a print copy
Multiscale Life-Cycle Assessment
T.E.Graedel,T.Lanzano, and W.Pott, Yale Center for Industrial Ecology R.J.Araujo, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 21 pages, 2005 Order a print copy
The Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium at Yale
Marian Chertow,Weslynne Ashton, and Radha Kuppalli Yale Center for Industrial Ecology 46 pages, 2004 Order a print copy
The Industrial Platinum Cycle for Russia
O.A.Babakina and T.E.Graedel Yale Center for Industrial Ecology R.J.Araujo, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation 32 pages, 2005 Order a print copy
Environmental Exposures in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry
Robert Repetto and James Henderson 16 pages, 2003 Order a print copy
Journal of Industrial Ecology
The Journal of Industrial Ecology
Center for Industrial Ecology
This center provides an organizational focus for research in industrial ecology. It brings together Yale staff, students, visiting scholars, and practitioners to develop new knowledge at the forefront of the field. Research is carried out in collaboration with other segments of the Yale community,...Industrial Environmental Management
This focal area is centered on using principles of ecology to transform industry through several research and teaching themes. An overarching theme in this area pertains to accounting for resource and product flows. The focus of materials accounting can be on a single element, a single resource,...Special isssue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology focuses on eco-efficiency
New Haven, Conn. – Disputes over the trade-off between the environment and the economy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Whether the threat is global warming or toxic substances, the tension between cost and environmental benefit is often palpable. Some of these disagreements...
Developing Industrial Ecosystems
Part I: Tools From Industrial Ecology
The Ecology of Walmart
| Saleem Ali
By Saleem H. Ali Introduction Corporations have often been described in organismic terms because of their capacity for impact on the environment and some of their behavioral attributes such as resource consumption, waste generation and growth. Corporate unions or mergers are frequently...Carbon trading won’t work
| Michael Dorsey
Originally in the LA Times earlier this month... Carbon trading won’t work Experiments with the market scheme favored by Schwarzenegger shows trading favors big polluters without curbing global warming gases. By Michael K. Dorsey MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on Dartmouth...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
| SAGE Magazine
This is SAGE's third magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.edu
Valuing Nature
| Saleem Ali
Economists have successfully branded themselves as scientists with mathematical exactitude who can artfully negotiate the vagaries of human consumption patterns through pricing mechanisms. Yet the life support systems that sustain the planet have eluded their grasp, and have often been relegated...
