In Small Groups

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In Small Groups 3/4

• What is Industrial Metabolism?
• What is Industrial Ecology?
• What Is Ecological Intelligence?
• How do you think it applies to Wash. U.?

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In Small Groups -

• What is Industrial Metabolism?
• metabolism of industry is the whole integrated
  collection of physical processes that convert raw
  materials and energy, plus labour, into finished
  products and wastes in a (more or less)
  steady-state condition (fig. 1). The production
  (supply) side, by itself, is not self-regulating.
  The stabilizing controls of the system are
  provided by its human component. This human role
  has two aspects (1) direct, as labour input, and
  (2) indirect, as consumer of output (i.e.
  determinant of final demand).
• What is Industrial Ecology?
• Industrial ecology is the shifting of industrial
  process from linear (open loop) systems, in which
  resource and capital investments move through the
  system to become waste, to a closed loop system
  where wastes become inputs for new processes.
• What Is Ecological Intelligence?
•  our ability to accept that we live in an
  infinitely connected world with finite resources
• How do you think it applies to Wash. U.?

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Washington University Danforth University Center
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Air in DUC
People using the DUC
Physical Building Energy Use?
Heat air
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• How could electricity or natural gas fit in?
• Where could recycling be incorporated?
• Could we reach sustainable steady state?

Hot Water Cold Water
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White Paper on Sustainable Development and
Industrial Ecology, issued by the Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers and quoted in
Allenby 21, is the objective,
multidisciplinary study of industrial and
economic systems and their linkages with
fundamental natural systems. Under industrial
ecology, excess materials are put back into the
loop to minimise waste. Where are the waste
streams? Which streams dont really exist?
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Washington University Danforth University Center
Emission (EM), k
Fuels (FM), j
Activity(Sq. Ft.?)
djk Emission/Fuel-
cij Fuel/Sq. Ft.
bij Sq. Ft./Person
Cooking
Gas
Eating
Staff
Electric
Meetings/Conf
Students
Carbon
Hot Water
Working
Faculty
Chilled Water
Socializing