From discussion@ecodesign.at Thu Apr 7 04:39:03 2005 From: discussion@ecodesign.at (Yasushi Umeda) Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:39:03 +0900 Subject: [ecodesign] Submission Deadline is extended! CfP: EcoDesign 2005 Message-ID: ****** Apologies for multiple postings ******* ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline is extended to April 25, 2005! ---------------------------------------------------------------- * please distribute to interested colleagues Call for Papers EcoDesign 2005: 4th International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing http://www.ecodenet.com/ed2005/index.htm December 12-14, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan Submission deadline: April 25, 2005 Organized by Union of EcoDesigners (Association of EcoDesign Societies, Japan) In cooperation with (tentative) IEEE CS TCEE, USA CARE Electronics, Europe We are delighted to announce that the "EcoDesign 2005: Forth International Symposium on Environmentally Conscious Design and Inverse Manufacturing" will be held on December 12-14, 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. This symposium is organized by the Union of EcoDesigners, Japan, under the unified subtitle "Going Green" that is commonly used among IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment, CARE/Electronics Goes Green, and EcoDesign. The third symposium EcoDesign 2003 gathered over 300 participants and about 180 presentations from Europe, U.S.A., and Asia. Topics Main topics of the symposium include the following categories. Among others, 4th EcoDesign Symposium set two special themes; EcoDesign of Social System and EcoDesign in Asia. Presentations related to these themes are strongly encouraged. EcoDesign symposium expects presentations on both of practical case studies and novel theories. And the symposium covers wide variety of subjects: not only electric and electrical products but also various products (including automobiles, heavy machines, machine tools, furniture, etc.), buildings, and urban infrastructure, and society. 1) EcoDesign of Social System [Special Theme] Design, evaluation, and management of social systems so as to change the social system into the sustainable society 2) Eco Life-style Analysis and evaluation of customers' behavior, and new measures for achieving environmentally conscious life-styles 3) Sustainable Businesses Development, design, evaluation of businesses for the reduction of the environmental load 4) Environmentally Conscious Products and Services Development, design, management, and evaluation of products & services and their lifecycles 5) Sustainable Consumption and Recovery of Resource and Energy Strategies, methodologies, and technologies of resource recovery (incl. reuse and recycling) and energy saving Asia) EcoDesign in Asia [Special Theme] Environmental legislation in Asia, EcoDesign practices in Asia, reuse and recycling in Asia, product & material circulation in Asia, etc. Next Stage of EcoDesign The aim of EcoDesign is to construct the sustainable society by developing and deploying various environmentally conscious social systems, businesses, services, and products. While the movement of EcoDesign is successfully promoted by various legislative activities in many countries, innovative environmentally conscious businesses have not achieved majority yet, including, for instance, product & service system and servicization. In order to step forward, it is necessary to grasp the problem from a holistic viewpoint and to harmonize various enabling technologies under a clear strategy. EcoDesign 2005 includes a variety of topics such as environmentally conscious design, enabling technologies, business, social system, infrastructure and life cycle management. Especially, the 4th symposium focuses on two special themes; EcoDesign of social system and EcoDesign in Asia. The former reflects our recognition that the global environmental issues are getting worse although our EcoDesign activities. Therefore, we need integration of various EcoDesign actions into design of sustainable social system, in addition to individual EcoDesign activities. The latter, EcoDesign in Asia, comes from the fact that rapid industrialization, growing markets, and fast increasing living standards in Asia are becoming a pivot for the global sustainability and therefore one of the main concern of EcoDesign. The symposium welcomes presentations related to one or more aspects of these topics; practices, theories, strategies, and enabling technologies, from not only technical viewpoints, but also social, legal, economic, cultural viewpoints. As a result, EcoDesign 2005 hopes to encourage discussion and exchange information integrating these aspects among participants from various countries, various backgrounds, and various professions. Symposium Chair R. Yamamoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Organizing Committee Co-Chairs (tentative) Y. Furukawa (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) H. Koshibu (Green Purchase Network, Japan) H. Griese (Fraunhofer IZM, Germany) P. Eagan (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) Technical Committee Chair Y. Umeda (Osaka University, Japan) Program Chair K. Aoyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan) International Advisory Board Chair F. Kimura (The University of Tokyo, Japan) Symposium Secretariat NPO EcoDesign Promotion Network Tel: +81-3-5452-5414 E-mail: ecodesign2005@ecodenet.com -- ----------------------------------------- Yasushi Umeda (umeda@mech.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) ----------------------------------------- Professor Design and Integration Division (DSI), Dept. of Mechanical Eng., Graduate School of Eng., Osaka University Yamada-oka 2-1, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan tel/fax: +81-6-6879-7260 ----------------------------------------- From discussion@ecodesign.at Tue Apr 26 22:11:00 2005 From: discussion@ecodesign.at (LCA Forum) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:11:00 +0200 Subject: [ecodesign] DF 26: Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment Message-ID: <426EAE64.4070608@epfl.ch> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020300090207080301000602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *****SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTINGS*** * **26th LCA Discussion Forum* *Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment* June 7, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Room CO 016 Dear Sir or Madam, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne is organizing a forum on *Green Investment* on the *7th of June in Lausanne*, joining together SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) professionals and scientists working in the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts. *Life cycle thinking* has the potential to provide the basis for better criteria and tools to assess companies and measure their life cycle environmental performance. It is a powerful, inclusive and quantitative approach going further the traditional production-centred view and considering direct and indirect impacts, including supply chain as well as products use and disposal. Life-cycle analysis already gave proof of its usefulness to evaluate, for example, environmental aspects of sustainable production and consumption. The 26th LCA discussion forum aims first at exploring the environmental side of SRI (Socially Responsible Investment). How do the various actors, investors and environmental analysts, choose the companies for investment? What are their main criteria, objectives and corresponding investment & risk management philosophies? Both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as the link between environmental and economic performances will be discussed. The second aim is to determine and illustrate how life cycle approaches can be practically used in the area of SRI, i.e., to identify key environmental issues within each sector, to ease the analysis of companies and to propose alternative benchmarks for environmental performance measures. In particular the 26^th LCA Forum will look at: ˇ Is green investment really leverage for a more sustainable development? ˇ What are the current qualitative and quantitative approaches? ˇ What is the link between economic and environmental performance? How can life-cycle thinking provide the basis for: ˇ Assessing the environmental performance of green and traditional funds? ˇ Assessing the quality of published data? ˇ Reducing the number of monitored indicators by concentrating on key issues? ˇ Helping companies to understand their environmental impacts? *Proposals for additional short presentations (10 min) are welcome.* We are persuaded that this forum will be of interest to all interested in Socially Responsible Investment and we are looking forward to welcoming you in Lausanne. Best regards. Prof. Olivier Jolliet, Damien Friot, Yves Loerincik, for the Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Systems group, EPFL & Thomas Köllner from NSSI-ETHZ Information on the LCA Discussion Forums can be found on the following website: http://texma.org/lcaforum/ Contact: LCAforum@epfl.ch Practicalities: * The forum takes place in Lausanne, at the EPF and will be held in english -- LCA Forum EPFL, bâtiment GR, GECOS CH-1015 Lausanne tel: ++ 41 21 693 57 46 fax: ++ 41 21 693 57 60 lcaforum@epfl.ch http://texma.org/lcaforum/ --------------020300090207080301000602 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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26th LCA Discussion Forum
Life Cycle Approaches for Green Investment
June 7, 2005, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Room CO 016

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne is organizing a forum on Green Investment on the 7th of June in Lausanne, joining together SRI (Socially Responsible Investment) professionals and scientists working in the quantitative assessment of environmental impacts.

Life cycle thinking has the potential to provide the basis for better criteria and tools to assess companies and measure their life cycle environmental performance. It is a powerful, inclusive and quantitative approach going further the traditional production-centred view and considering direct and indirect impacts, including supply chain as well as products use and disposal. Life-cycle analysis already gave proof of its usefulness to evaluate, for example, environmental aspects of sustainable production and consumption.

The 26th LCA discussion forum aims first at exploring the environmental side of SRI (Socially Responsible Investment). How do the various actors, investors and environmental analysts, choose the companies for investment? What are their main criteria, objectives and corresponding investment & risk management philosophies? Both qualitative and quantitative methods as well as the link between environmental and economic performances will be discussed. The second aim is to determine and illustrate how life cycle approaches can be practically used in the area of SRI, i.e., to identify key environmental issues within each sector, to ease the analysis of companies and to propose alternative benchmarks for environmental performance measures.

In particular the 26th LCA Forum will look at:

·         Is green investment really leverage for a more sustainable development?
·         What are the current qualitative and quantitative approaches?
·         What is the link between economic and environmental performance?

 How can life-cycle thinking provide the basis for:

·          Assessing the environmental performance of green and traditional funds?
·          Assessing the quality of published data?
·          Reducing the number of monitored indicators by concentrating on key issues?
·          Helping companies to understand their environmental impacts?

Proposals for additional short presentations (10 min) are welcome.

We are persuaded that this forum will be of interest to all interested in Socially Responsible Investment and we are looking forward to welcoming you in Lausanne.

Best regards.

Prof. Olivier Jolliet, Damien Friot, Yves Loerincik, for the Industrial Ecology – Life Cycle Systems group, EPFL & Thomas Köllner from NSSI-ETHZ

Information on the LCA Discussion Forums can be found on the following website: http://texma.org/lcaforum/

Contact: LCAforum@epfl.ch

Practicalities:

* The forum takes place in Lausanne, at the EPF and will be held in english

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