- Designers Accord, The
A coalition of design and innovation firms focused on working to create positive environmental and social impact. The Designers Accord asks all designers to proactively engage in a dialogue about environmental impact with each client, and to evaluate sustainable alternatives in design.
www.designersaccord.org
- Atlantic: The NEXT Industrial Revolution
Proposes a new approach that aims to solve rather than alleviate the problems that industry makes.
www.theatlantic.com/issues/98oct/industry.htm
- Indigo Development
RPP Internationl's Industrial Ecology Research Center.
www.indigodev.com
- Archives of INDUSTRIAL-ECOLOGY@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Discussing environmental issues concerning industry, commerce, and business.
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/industrial-ecology.html
- Green Design Initiative
An industry-academic consortium researching the efficient use of renewable and non-renewable resources and toxic substances.
www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign
- International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
Promotes industrial ecology as a way of finding innovative solutions to complicated environmental problems.
www.yale.edu/is4ie
- Industrial Ecology Compendium
Describes the background of industrial ecology, defines its main attributes, and puts it in the perspectives of an academic discipline and a field of ecology.
www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/ind.ecol.html
- Journal of Industrial Ecology (2)
dir.yahoo.com/.../Industrial_Ecology/Journal_of_Industrial_Ecology
- Industrial Ecology: An Introduction
(PDF)
Portion of the industrial ecology compendium providing an overview of the subject and offering guidance on how one may teach it.
www.umich.edu/~nppcpub/resources/compendia/INDEpdfs/INDEintro.pdf
- Connecting Business & the Environment: Seminars in Industrial Ecology 1997 and 1998
Presentations and case studies online.
www.people.cornell.edu/pages/akm3/industrial.html
- Industrial Ecology: Some Directions for Research
Looks at the new field which offers a framework to improve knowledge and decisions about materials use, waste reduction, and pollution prevention.
phe.rockefeller.edu/ie_agenda
- National Center for Eco-Indusrtial Development
Facilitating job creation and sustainable industrial expansion in distressed communities around the nation by applying principles of industrial ecology, establishing eco-industrial parks, and expanding use of environmentally benign manufacturing processes.
www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/research/NCEID/index.html
- Closed-loop Manufacturing
Chapter ten from Kevin Kelly's book, Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization.
www.well.com/user/kk/OutOfControl/ch10-e.html
- Industrial Ecology
Article from Synergy.
www.umass.edu/synergy/fall98/industry.html
- Linking Industrial Ecology to Public Policy
Devoted to improving the policy relevance of industrial ecology.
radburn.rutgers.edu/andrews/projects/iepp/default.htm
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