Eco-efficiency

Reducing environmental impacts and getting economic benefits, based on the waste utilization, and on the reduction of both energy consumption and organic load, was the driver of the implementation of cleaner production assessment in a poultry industry and its related processes. The main objective of this study is to examine the feasibility of using poultry litter as a source of energy to cover the heating demand of Poultry Company’s slaughterhouse. Poultry litter enters the cooking stage to produce the fat-oil for the fuel burning stage. The results showed that the critical price of poultry litter is 46.7 JOD per ton, below which it becomes feasible to utilize this waste as a source of energy. However, the daily monetary saving was found to be strongly affected by the prices of both poultry litter and diesel. Another revenue can be generated from the fertilizer value of the poultry waste-to-energy ash. However, this depends on several technical and market factors that need further c...

In its present form, tourism is dependent on the availability of oil and is comparatively oil-intensive. While forecasts for future tourism growth are optimistic, there is also increasing evidence about the imminence of a peak in oil production and the economic effects that this would cause. Globally and on a destination level it will be necessary to consider how a transition towards fossil-fuel free economies might look like for tourism.It is therefore timely and prudent for the tourism sector to consider its current oil requirements and derive indicators for monitoring its oil consumption. In particular, destinations need indicators of the amount of oil consumed by the various markets from which they receive visitors. New Zealand is used as an example for assessing the oil-intensity of its Top 10 countries of origin based on the 10 indicators. Overall, the least exposed markets for New Zealand with respect to oil are Australia, China, Singapore, and Taiwan, although a more detailed analysis would be required for markets that display very heterogeneous travel behaviour. Among the indicators, eco-efficiency is particularly important as it allows comparison of resource inputs with economic outputs.

The information has been analytically concentrated for an aggravation mode by reduction of modelled relations to dominant positive feedback loops; the doomsday of capitalist reproduction because of neglect of the scientific foundations of environmental management is determined by initial magnitudes of only two variables - the resource intensity of net output and the ratio of net output to proved reserves in the model economy. The magnitudes of remaining parameters (relating, first, to technical progress, distribution shares of labour compensation, rent, and profit in the net product, second, to the rate of growth of labor force and the rate of investment in fixed capital) affect only the nuances of a transition regime to a collapse.

The goal of this study is to create a novel eco-exergoenvironmental toxicity index to identify the most sustainable irrigation system among surface irrigation and drip irrigation for sunflower production in Kurdistan, Iran. This research emphasizes on choosing a sustainable irrigation agricultural system with an invented index, which considers all aspects. For this purpose, life cycle assessment (USEtox 2.0) is applied for evaluating toxicity factors and results show that the environmental situation of drip irrigation is better than that of surface irrigation. Exergy analysis results reveal that total exergy demands are 287,421 and 211,458 Megajoule per ten ton of sunflower for surface irrigation and drip irrigation scenarios, respectively. Nitrogen has the highest share (more than 50%) in all factors and exergy categories. Eco-efficiency of all toxicity factors of drip irrigation (with net profit $7417.86) is more than those of surface irrigation (with net profit $6614.35). The analytic hierarchy process analysis indicates that human toxicity, cancer has the first rank of priority based on expert choices. Based on the novel index results, sustainable rates are 1.690 and 1.169 for surface irrigation and drip irrigation, respectively. Thus, drip irrigation is an eco-exergoenvironmental-friendly scenario in comparison to surface irrigation.

A talk: Slides with speakers notes + link to video recording (see links above).

In this talk I argue that increasingly, in our our changing world, to remain financially viable *all* enterprises must consider how they define success.  I explore current, emerging and necessary future definitions of enterprise success informed by the latest trans-disciplinary systems-thinking science.  I close with a call to action. 

In the discussion we explore the need for a global movement towards flourishing #Movement4Flourishing - focusing on establishing the UN Flourishing Goals to succeed the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2030.

(Text in grey, and slides with yellow square bottom right were not presented;  a 20 minuite "Ted Talk" version is also available upon request)

20 min talk: Slides with speakers notes (will also be published on conference website http://2018.reporting3.org)

In this talk, made in support of the launch of the Reporting 3.0 New Business Models Blueprint (https://reporting3.org/publications/),  I argue that to realize the benefits of "new" / integral / flourishing / strongly sustainable / future-fit / regenerative business models companies needs methods, tools and practices to design and implement strategies / business models. 

Further, in our changing world, to remain financially viable, *all* enterprises' strategies must consider how they define success.  I close with an introduction to the six major projects of the members of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group - Future-Fit Business Benchmark, Flourishing Business Canvas, REFOCUS on Sustainability, Lean for Flourishing Startups, Aim2Flourish and Reporting 3.0 (http://forum.SSBMG.com)

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A keynote talk: I was asked by the organizing committee to attempt to be provocative - after all doing anything "new", like "new business models", implies we will need to stretch ourselves

In this light I introduce the work of the Strongly Sustainable Business Model Group whose work applies a primarily design science rather than a descriptive science epistemology.

In our work we undertake systemic-design research...and this approach requires us to be explicit about the normative – a scary subject for many.

In my talk I argue that this is a vital aspect of all research into new business and propose some approaches to how researchers *and* practitioners can proceed with confidence

(Text in grey, and slides with yellow square bottom right were not presented at the conference.  A longer version of this talk including more about design science vs. descriptive science and additional details on successful business models was presented at Halmstad University, Sweden, June 1, 2017 and is available on request)

This paper deals with eco issues in bulk materials handling in ports. Solid, free-flowing materials are said to be in bulk. Bulk materials han-dling is very difficult, because it incorporates all the features of liquids, gasses and mass solids. Energy efficiency, dust emissions in nearby en-vironment, dust explosions, jamming, noise, handling of hazardous ma-terials and protection of materials from contamination