Environment and Business

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Environment and Business

• Course Overview
• Instructor Jerry Patchell sopatch_at_ust.hk
• Office Hours Tuesday 1200-1400 Room 2352A
• TA Kaxton Siu kaxton_at_ust.hk
• Office Hours Tue Thu 1030-1130 am Room 3002

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Design for Environment

• systematic consideration of design performance
  with respect to environmental, health, and safety
  objectives over the full product life cycle.
• That is reduce, reuse, and recycle through the
  all the stages of a products lifecycle.

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Why Design for Environment?

• Over 80 of a products environmental impacts are
  decided by design.
• Design integrates all the stages of the product
  cycle.
• Design integrates all business activities related
  to the product, inside and outside a company.
• Good and Services companies.

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Integration what is it?

• The process of coordinating different elements
  for effective functioning of a whole system
• In practical terms
• Functional making sure all the parts work
  together to achieve the design goals
• Organizational Assigning tasks to all members of
  an organization to achieve the design goals

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What has to be Integrated?

• The firm into sustainable development
• The firm into industrial ecology
• Environmental management into the firm
• Product design is how integration is done.

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Sustainable Development

• "Sustainable development is development that
  meets the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs. (World Commission on
  Environment and Development 1987)

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How can Business be Integrated into Sustainable
Development?
Environment
Economy
Society
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Sustainable Development as Integration
Technology
Environment
Environment
Industrial Ecology
Industrial Ecology
Society
Economy ?Business ??
Environmental Management
Politics
Industrial Ecology
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What is industrial ecology?

• An ideal to mimic the way the natures ecosystems
  function.
• A framework of principles and practices that
  enables companies, governments, consumers, and
  NGOs to work together to achieve that ideal

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The Linear Industrial System
Energy material input
Waste pollution output
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An Ecosystem
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Principles of Industrial Ecology

• Products, processes, services, and operations can
  produce residuals, but not waste.
• Every process, product, facility, constructed
  infrastructure, and technological system should
  be planned to be adaptable to forseeable
  environmentally preferable innovations.
• Every molecule that enters a specific
  manufacturing process should leave that process
  as a part of a salable product.
• Every erg of energy used in manufacture should
  produce a desired material transformation.
• Industries should make minimum use of materials
  and energy in products, processes, services, and
  operations.
• Materials should be the least toxic for the
  purpose, all else equal.

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Principles of Industrial Ecology cont

• Industries should get most of the needed
  materials through recycling streams (theirs or
  those of others) rather than through raw
  materials extraction.
• Every process, product, component, and part
  should be designed to preserve the embedded
  utility of the materials used.
• Every product should be designed so that it can
  be used to create other useful products at the
  end of its current life.
• Every industrial landholding, facility, or
  infrastructure system or component should be
  developed, constructed or modified to maintain or
  improve local habitats and species diversity, and
  to minimize impacts on local or regional
  resources.
• Close interactions should be developed with
  materials suppliers, customers, and
  representatives of other industries, with the aim
  of developing cooperative ways of minimizing
  packaging and of recycling and reusing materials.

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Principles of Industrial Ecology cont

• Or
• Waste equals food

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Integration of Product, Material, Energy Flow
in an Industry
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Product, Material, Energy Flow in an Industry
Value
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Environmental Management

• Environmental management is the planning and
  implementation of actions to reduce the
  environmental impacts of a organization.
• Reduce, reuse, recycle, dispose of safely
  throughout business activities.
• Coordination of DfE activities

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Internal Process of a Firm
Products Waste energy Waste materials
Energy and Materials
A Company
DfE Reduce Reuse Recycle
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Environmental Management integrating
environmental improvement across departmental and
product boundaries
Top Management
Integrating environmental improvements throughout
a businesss divisions and upstream and
downstream in product cycle
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Product, Material, Energy Flow in an Industry
Value
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Environment and Business an integrating approach

• Chapter 1 Course Introduction A Framework for
  Sustainable Business
• Chapter 2 Sustainable Business
• Chapter 3 Environmental Problems
• Chapter 4 Society
• Chapter 5 Technology
• Chapter 6 Environmental Economics
• Chapter 7 Environmental Politics
• Chapter 8 Challenge of Integration
• Chapter 9 Design for Environment
• Chapter 10 Impact Assessment
• Chapter 11 Environmental Management
• Chapter 12 Environmental Programs

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10,000 Prize

• HKUSTs Green Campus Initiative
• Student Contest best projects on the environment

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Syllabus on Website

• http//teaching.ust.hk/sosc217/

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Why does business have to change?
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How can a business make a difference?

• Technological limits
• Knowledge limits
• Power limits
• Competitive limits
• Governance limits

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How can a business make a difference?

• Integration into a collective solution by
  integrating Design for Environment into a company
• Integration
• Sustainable Development
• Industrial Ecology
• Design for Environment
• Environmental Management

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Integrate?

• What does it mean?
• What has to be integrated?
• Integrated into what?

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Environmental Management

• Environmental management is the planning and
  implementation of actions to reduce the
  environmental impacts of a organization.
• That is reduce, reuse, recycle, dispose of
  safely.

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Internal Process of a Firm
Products Waste energy Waste materials
Energy and Materials
Company