Blog series introducing the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management enabling a Circular Economy. Exchange with industry partners Continuous meetings with the (industry) partners of the CD-Lab are...
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Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 2/3
Blog series introducing the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management enabling a Circular Economy. The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management is a 7-year project with a...
Maximizing Products’ Sustainability Performance and Circularity with Digitalization – Part 1/3
Blog series introducing the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable Product Management enabling a Circular Economy. To support the ambitious Circular Economy Action Plan adopted by the European Union, the Austria...
How sustainable is a service or a product? Digitalization, IoT and Big Data are providing new possibilities for research
How sustainable is a service or a product? This question is becoming more and more important in purchasing decisions and is therefore occupying more and more companies. But what criteria can be used to reliably assess...
Towards a Digital Circular Economy
Take – make – use – dispose is causing increasingly scarce resources, environmental pollution and social exploitation. This is the still prevailing linear economy system. The linear economy system Products which are...
Resource Efficiency III: The Quarry and the Factory
One of the more frustrating aspects of research is when the data will not conform to ones expectations. This article consumed much more of my time than I would have liked because I had wondered whether China and...
Resource efficiency II: Offshoring resource consumption
Last year the Economist magazine claimed that “While America and Europe are cutting their emissions by 60m tonnes a year combined, China is increasing its own by over 500m tonnes. This makes it a unique global threat”...
Resource Efficiency: Measuring and Managing Metabolism
Last week’s offering from this blog flew under the banner of “The Circular Economy” – a concept so broad that it might well have been labelled “sustainability”. Like sustainability, the idea of the circular economy is...
The Circular Economy: Another ‘Industrial Revolution’?
The big boys who meet at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos aren’t really into warm fuzzy ideas. For them, money talks and bullshit walks. So the fact that they started talking about the circular economy at their...