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Welcome to Cal Poly's wiki for Sustainability in Integrated Circuits


This wiki aims to share information regarding sustainability issues related to integrated circuits, offering a forum for students to teach each other about sustainability and the electronics field.

 

Definitions of sustainability

 

  • Sustainability describes a condition in which natural systems and social systems survive and thrive together indefinitely [1].

  • A sustainable society
    • meets the needs of the present generation,
    • does not compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs [2], and
    • allows each human being the opportunity to develop in freedom, within a well-balanced society and in harmony with its surroundings [3]

     

    Safe

    Universally accepted

    Stable

    Technology that benefits all

    Antipollution

    Improvement in quality of life

    Nontoxic

    Awareness

    Beautiful

    Indigenous knowledge

    Least-cost production

    Income

    Total quality

    Youth [4]


 

Because humanity now consumes and pollutes the Earth’s resources faster than natural and human systems can replenish and clean them, we do not currently live in a sustainable manner [5]. More sustainable design might

  • “Design systems that love all the children of all species for all time” [6]

  • “The goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy, and just

                          world, with clean air, soil, water, and power,

                          economically, equitably, ecologically, and

                          elegantly enjoyed.” [6]

     

 

In analyzing sustainability issues, it might prove helpful to consider Commoner’s laws of ecology, which sound unsurprisingly similar to laws of physics:

  • Everything connects to everything else

  • Everything must go somewhere

  • Nature knows best and bats last

  • There is no such thing as a free lunch [7].

     

Explain how experiment topics or applications related to the experiment foster or prevent sustainability [8]. Reference [9] and others on Blackboard™ provide helpful information. Consider issues related to Energy, Environment, Economics, and social or political Equity, four “E”s of sustainability.

 

What is your ecological footprint?

 

 

Course sustainability wikis

EE 346

 

EE 347

 

EE 413

 

EE 422

 

 

Data on EnergyUse

 

 

The Earth Policy Institute has a plan:

Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (New York: W.W. Norton & Company) 2008,

The entire book and Excel files containing the book's data appear online: http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/PB3/Contents.htm

 

Ways to reduce carbon appear in a McKinsey report:

Jon Creyts, Anton Derkach, Scott Nyquist, Ken Ostrowski, Jack Stephenson, "Reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions: How much at what cost?," November 2007, p. 20, http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/ccsi/Costcurves.asp

 

References

 

[1] S. R. Euston and W. E. Gibson, The Ethic of Sustainability, Earth Ethics 6, 1995 p. 5-7. Available: http://www.iisd.org/sd/principle.asp?pid=31&display=1. [Accessed January 16, 2009].

[2] The World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future, chaired by Norwegian Prime-Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1987.

[3] G. Van de Kerk and A. R. ManuelA comprehensive index for a sustainable society: The SSI — the Sustainable Society Index,” Ecological Economics 66 (2-3), 2008 p. 228-242.

[4] Olaitan Ojuroye as cited in Paul L. Bishop, Pollution Prevention: Fundamentals and Practice Long Grove, IL: Waveland, 2004 Fig. 14.1 p. 584.

[5] Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1, Eds. R. Hassan, R. Scholes, & N. Ash, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005, p. 827-838. “MA Findings Animated slides,” Available:  http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/SlidePresentations.aspx, [Accessed March 22, 2006]

[6] William McDonough, as quoted in “Waste = Food (An inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept)” Directed by Rob van Hattum, VPRO, The Netherlands, 2006. Available: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3058533428492266222. [Accessed September 1, 2008]

[7] Commoner, The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972, pp. 16-24.

[8] P. Hawken, A. Lovins, and L.H. Lovins, Natural Capitalism. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1999, pp. 49-50, 57-58. Available: http://www.natcap.org/images/other/NCchapter3.pdf [Accessed March 22, 2006].

[9] E. Williams, “Environmental impacts in the production of personal computers,” in Computers and the Environment: Understanding and Managing Their Impacts, R. Kuehr and E. Williams, Eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2003, pp. 41-72.

 

 

Tips: To Use PBwiki

 

 

 

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