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This study aims to investigate the new strategy implement by charactering current urban industrial metabolism and identify the impacts of the mentioned strategy after 4-year implement, as well as give some policy suggestion. Suzhou city, as a major manufacturing center with per capital GDP over 10000 USD was chosen as our case, there were 2 National Circular Economy Pilot Units (Industrial parks)...
Sustainable building materials offer energy efficiency and environmental performance. One possible sustainable building product is insulating concrete forms (ICF). An ICF wall section consists of expanded polystyrene and concrete with polyethylene ties. One difference between a ldquonormalrdquo construction and ICF construction is that the forms stay in place after concrete has cured. The forms and...
Extensive interviews with electronic product recyclers and refurbishers identified numerous ways that the design of electronic products could be improved to enhance the performance of EoL systems in financial and resource conservation terms. Some design changes can be applied by manufacturers to today's products, some require collaborative industry initiatives, and some are transformative of the ICT...
Computer power management features - standard in Windows and Macintosh operating systems - place monitors and computers (CPU, hard drive, etc.) into low-power ldquosleep modesrdquo after a period of inactivity. Simply touching the mouse or keyboard ldquowakesrdquo the computer and monitor in seconds. While monitors are often configured to sleep, unfortunately fewer than 10% of US-based computers are...
This paper summarizes a modeling framework that characterizes the key underlying technologies and processes that contribute to the supply chain energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a variety of goods and services purchased by U.S. consumers. The framework couples an input-output supply chain modeling approach with ldquobottom-uprdquo fuel end use models for individual IO sectors. This...
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