CU Maymester 2005 ARCHIVE --
    

NATURAL CAPITALISM FOR ENGINEERS

Course Material

Class Lectures (May 9-26, 2005)

Class 1: Natural Capitalism for Engineers

Class 2: Global Issues

Class 3: A New Perspective
Case Study Session & Group Presentation Session

Class 4: Learning the Language
Lecture: Financial and Managerial Issues

Class 5: "The Corporation" Watch & Discuss Film

Class 6: Achieving ‘Zero Waste’
Lecture Material available from TNEP

Class 7: Greening of Industry
Lecture Material available from TNEP

Class 8: Greening the Built Environment
Lecture Material available from TNEP

Class 9: Sustainable Urban Transport

Lecture Material available from TNEP

Class 10: Water: Nature’s Gold
Lecture Material available from TNEP

Class 11: Profitable Greenhouse Solutions

Class 12: Sustainable Business Practice
Presentation: Financing Sustainable Ventures

Class 13: Class Presentations A

Class 14: Class Presentations B

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Recommended Reading:

The course material will be based on the following publications:

Hargroves, K and Smith, M (2005) The Natural Advantage of Nations: Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century, Earthscan, London.

Hawken, P., Lovins, A. and Lovins, H. (1999) Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Little, Brown & Co. Boston.

Wallace, W (2005) Becoming Part of the Solution: The Engineers Guide to Sustainable Development, American Council of Engineering Companies, Washington D.C.

Additional Resources will Include:

Anastas, P, Heine, L, Williamson, T and Bartlett, L (2000) Green Engineering, American Chemical Society, November

AtKisson, A (1999) Believing Cassandra, An Optimist looks at a Pessimist’s World, Chelsea Green, Publishing Co., White River Junction, VT

Benyus, J (1997) Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature, William Morrow, New York

Birkeland, J (2002) Design for Sustainability: A Sourcebook of Integrated Eco-Logical Solutions, Earthscan, London

Lovins, A and Lovins, H (1997) Climate: Making Sense and Making Money, Rocky Mountain Institute, CO

Lovins, H and Link, W (2002) Insurmountable Opportunities?: Steps and Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Development, Comments to the UN Regional Roundtable for Europe and North America, Vail, CO

McDonough, W and Braungart, M (2002) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, North Point Press, San Francisco, CA

Mendler, F and Odell, W (2000) The HOK Guidebook to Sustainable Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc Indianapolis, IN

Von Weizsäcker, E, Lovins, A and Lovins, H (1997) Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use, Earthscan, London

Wilson, A, Uncapher, J, McManigal, L, Lovins, H, Cureton, M and Browning, W (1998) Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate, Rocky Mountain Institute, John Wiley and Sons Inc.

Nat Cap in the News:

CURRENT EVENTS / NEWS RELEASES

TNEP wins Banskia Award for 'Environmental Leadership, Education and Training' category (June 2005)

Gov. Schwarzenegger Vows Attack on Global Warming (June 2, 2005)

New Zealand world first for carbon tax (May 6, 2005)

It's a Flat World, After All (NY Times article, April 3, 2005)

INTERESTING WEBSITES

Australia's national database of pollutant emissions

Biomimicry

Change Graphics and Presentations developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Global Dimming

GreenBiz (for profit company)

Japan for Sustainability

Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) (for profit organization)

"Most Efficient Things in the World" website of products (for profit company)

Sustainability Case Studies

Sustainability Centre to promote ecologically sustainable and socially just development, especially in Australia and China (for profit organization)

Articles by Sustainability Centre's Director Mark Diesendorf