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All readings are to be read prior to the respective class, especially those for Class Discussions


Downloads and Additional Reading Materials (grouped by topic)

Introduction

Waggoner, P.E., and Ausubel, J.H., A Framework for Sustainability Science: A Renovated IPAT Identity, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. June 11, 2002, vol. 99, no.12 pp 7860 – 7865, Washington, DC.

 

Resource Accounting

Wackernagel, M., N. B. Schulz, D. Deumling, A. C. Linares, M. Jenkins, V. Kapos, C. Monfreda, J. Lohl, N. Myers, R. Norgaard, and J. Randers. Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 9, 2002, vol. 99, no.14, pp. 9266 – 9271, Washington, DC.

Link for the footprint quiz: http://www.footprintcalculator.org/

Wackernagel, Data Worksheet.

 

Materials Flow

Klee and Graedel, Elemental Cycles: A Status Report on Human or Natural Dominance, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2004, pp 69 – 107. (handout)

Pentice, I.C., The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, 2001, IPCC Report.

 

Sustainability Discussion

Everyone Reads:    Hardin, G., The Tragedy of the Commons, Science, Dec. 13, 1968, Vol. 162, no. 3859, pp. 1243 – 1248.

Hunt, T., Rethinking the Fall of Easter Island, American Scientist, Sept.-Oct., 2006, Vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 412.

Slaper, T., The Triple Bottom Line: What Is It and How Does It Work?, Indiana Business Review, Spring, 2011, Vol. 86, no. 1.

Rockstrom, J., A safe operating space for humanity., Nature, Sept, 2009, Vol. 461, pp. 472-475.

Dasgupta, P., Nature's role in sustaining economic development, Phil. Trans. Royal Society B 2010 365, 5-11.

Rockström, J., Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity, Ecology and Society 14(2): 32.

Broswimmer "Ecocide" pp 45-48, and Diamond, J., Easter Island's End, Discover Magazine, August 2005.

Groups will be assigned in class.

 

Life Cycle Assessment

Graedel, Evaluating the LCA Process, pp 69 -86 (handout)

CMU I/O Website: Tutorial: http://www.eiolca.net/tutorial/tut_1.html
Economic Input-Output LCA: http://www.eiolca.net/

Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA): IEEE 2008 paper

Suh and Huppes, Methods of Life Cycle Inventory of a Product, J Cleaner Production, 13 (2005) pp 687-697 (available on line)

LCA 101, (41 pages, but less than 26 of text)  see http://www.epa.gov/ord/NRMRL/lcaccess/pdfs/600r06060.pdf

Leontief, Input/Output Economics, pp19 – 24 (handout)

Sullivan, J., et al, “Life Cycle of US Sedan…..” 1999, p 1-14. (handout)

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2008, 42 (9), 3170-3176    Life Cycle Assessment of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles: Implications for Policy,

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2008, 42 (6), pp 2168-2174    Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles,

 

Renewables

MacKay, D., Sustainable Energy, without the hot air.

 
Analysis Boundaries

Matthews, H.S., Hendrickson, C.T., and Weber, C.L., The Importance of Carbon Footprint Estimation Boundaries Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, vol. 42, pp 5839 – 5842.

Gutowski, et al. Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA) IEEE, 2008.

Tsao, et al. Solid-state lighting: an energy-economics perspective, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 43, 2010.

Williams, E., Energy Intensity of Computer Manufacturing: Hybrid Assessment Combining Process and Economic Input-Output Methods, Enviro. Sci. Technol., 38, 2004, pp. 6166 – 6174.

 

Energy/Exergy

de Swaan Arons, J., Thermodynamics Revisited, Ch2, in Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2004. (handout)

de Swaan Arons, J., Exergy, a Convenient Concept, Ch6, in Efficiency and Sustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 2004. (handout)

Szargut, Appendix in Exergy Analysis..., Springer – Verlag, 1988. (handout)

Gutowski, T.G., et al., Thermodynamic Analysis of Resources Used in Manufacturing Processes, Evniron. Sci. Technol., 2009, 43 (5).

Chapter 6 in Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources by Bhavik Bakshi, Timothy Gutowski and Dusan Sekulic, Cambridge University Press, 2011

APPENDIX 1. STANDARD CHEMICAL EXERGY in Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources by Bhavik Bakshi, Timothy Gutowski and Dusan Sekulic, Cambridge University Press, 2011

 

Materials Production

Ayres et al, An Application of Exergy Accounting to Five Basic Metal Industries, 2006.

Ellingham Diagrams.

Prof. Geoff Hammond and Craig Jones, Inventory of Carbon & Energy (ICE), University of Bath Official download link

Gutowski et al., The energy required to produce materials, 2013.

Gutowski, Thermodynamics of Separation, Class Supplement


Manufacturing

T. G. Gutowski and D. P. Sekulic Thermodynamic Analysis of Resources Used in Manufacturing Processes, from "Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources."

Allwood, Julian M., et al. Options for Achieving a 50% Cut in Industrial Carbon Emissions by 2050, Enviro. Sci. Technol.

Williams, E., et al. The 1.7 Kilogram Microchip, Enviro. Sci. Technol. 36, 2002, pp 5504 – 5510.

Thiriez, A., An Environmental Analysis of Injection Molding, IEEE 2006 Abstract.

Branham, M.S.. and Gutowski, T.G., Deconstructing Energy Use in Microelectronics Manufacturing: An Experimental Case Study of a MEMS Fabrication Facility Enviro. Sci. Technol. 44, 2010, pp 4295 – 4301.

 

Efficiency and Growth

i)    Herring, Does Energy Efficiency Save Energy: The Economist's Debate PDF 

ii)    Tsao, Solid-state lighting: an energy-economics perspective link 

iii) David Owen, The efficiency dilemma link 

iv) Environmental Life Style Analysis (ELSA): IEEE 2008 paper, Framework paper

v) Dahmus and Gutowski,  Can Efficiency Improvements Reduce Resource Consumption?


 

Use

i)    Cohen M., and Heberger, M., Driving vs. Walking: Cows, Climate Change, and Choice, April 2008, The Pacific Institute.

ii)    Notes by Prof Gutowski, Driving vs. Walking

 

End of Life & Reprovisioning

Craighill, A.L., and Powell, J.C., Lifecycle assessment and economic evaluation of recycling: a case study, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 1996, Vol. 17 pp 75 – 96.

Porter, R., Economics of Recycling, Ch9 in The Economics of Waste, 2002 (email handout).

Timothy G. Gutowski, Materials Separation and Recycling, from "Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources."

Timothy G. Gutowski et al. Remanufacturing and Energy Savings, to appear in "Environmental Science and Technology".

Group Ayres A)    Intro + Ch 1 + Ch 2 (email handout).

Group Ayres B)    Ch 3 + Ch 4 (email handout).

Smil A)    p 312-339, p 362-373 (email handout).

Smil B)    p 339-373 (email handout).

Thomas, V.M., Demand and dematerialization impacts of second hand markets, J. Ind. Ecology2003, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 65 – 76.

 

Consumption

Hannon, B., Energy Conservation and the Consumer, Science, 1975, Vol. 189, No. 4197, pp 95 – 102.

 

Miscellaneous

Pacala, S., and Socolow, R., Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies. Science, Aug. 13, 2004, vol. 305, no.5686 pp 968 – 972.

Ankvist, P-A., Naucler, T., and Rosander, J., A cost curve for greenhouse gas reduction. 2007, The McKinsey Quarterly

Gutowski, Decomposition Example IEEE, 2008.

Sato, N., Exergy, Ch10 in Chemical Energy and Exergy – An Introduction to Chemical Thermodynamigs for Engineers, Elsevier, 2004. (handout)

Gutowski, T.G., Materials Separation and Recycling Chapter for Thermodynamics and the Destruction of Resources, B.R.Bakshi, T.G.Gutowski, and D.P.Sekulic, Camb. U. Press.

Gutowski, T.G., Branham, M.S., Dahmus, J.B., Jones, A.J., Thiriez, A., and Sekulic, D.P., Thermodynamic Analysis of Resources Used in Manufacturing Processes, Enviro. Sci. Technol. Dec. 2, 2008.

Shadman, F., and McManus, T.J, Comment on The 1.7 Kilogram Microchip: Energy and Material Use in the Production of Semiconductor Devices, Enviro. Sci. Technol., 38, 2004, pp. 1915.

Williams, E.D., Ayres, R.U., and Heller, M., Response to Comment on The 1.7 Kilogram Microchip: Energy and Material Use in the Production of Semiconductor Devices, Enviro. Sci. Technol., 38, 2004, pp. 1916 – 1917.

Dahmus, J., and Gutowski, T.G., What Gets Recycled: An Information Theory Based Model for Product Recycling Env. Sci. Technol., 2007, 41, pp. 7543 – 7550.