tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89934927153900316362024-03-13T18:39:56.948-04:00Big Ideas - The Blog of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable SystemsBBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-75179677698924439732015-07-20T12:53:00.002-04:002015-07-20T12:53:44.485-04:00John Crittenden Awarded the 2015 NWRI Clarke Prize<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-87187281022963030322015-07-02T12:37:00.000-04:002015-07-02T12:37:31.519-04:00BBISS Appoints Twelve Fellows
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The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia
tech has appointed 12 BBISS Fellows.
This diverse group of faculty and researchers come from all six of
BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-79959549622509986682015-05-01T11:31:00.000-04:002015-05-08T15:31:12.104-04:00$1 Million Joint US – China Study on Sustainable Steel Manufacturing
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A multidisciplinary
research team from Georgia Tech has just been awarded $500,000 over four years to
study ways in which steel production in China can be made more sustainable. The grant is being awarded by the National
Science Foundation (NSF). It is matched
with a research BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-87939381300752729902014-09-02T17:10:00.000-04:002014-09-03T13:59:38.609-04:00NSF Awards Grant to BBISS Researchers<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-69793985458061447492014-07-31T11:20:00.000-04:002014-07-31T11:20:25.371-04:00Student Sustainability Organizations - 2014
Students Organizing for Sustainability members in the GT Community Garden.
This is our annual feature highlighting Georgia Tech's student sustainability related organizations for the new academic year. Georgia Tech has a strong
tradition of student led clubs and organizations. Sustainability related
groups have proven to be no exception in this regard. The list below is
a comprehensive BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-76575232043170383812014-05-30T14:37:00.000-04:002014-05-30T15:25:12.205-04:00Director Crittenden to be Given Honors in China<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-42306787451852491282014-05-15T14:51:00.000-04:002014-05-16T16:49:50.148-04:00Brook Byers Professors Honored<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-19833896536946761812014-01-31T16:21:00.000-05:002014-02-07T16:26:45.629-05:00Brook Byers Professors Appointed
Brook Byers Professors Bras, Brown and Reichmanis
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Figure 1: Annual global material use.
The anthroposphere (the place where humans live and where human needs are provided for) needs to be recreated to exist within the means of nature. Two important implications can be drawn from this statement: (1) we must use renewable materials that nature provides, and (2) we must not overwhelm natural cycles such that they cease to provide BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-40887130932383657922013-08-06T10:45:00.003-04:002013-08-14T13:35:57.698-04:00Student Sustainability Organizations
GT student Stephanie Kehl working the SOS Community Garden
Georgia Tech has a strong tradition of student led clubs and organizations. Sustainability related groups have proven to be no exception in this regard. The list below is a comprehensive picture of the broad range of sustainability related student organizations and volunteer opportunities available. Please help us keep this list BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-67645748122393950242013-07-05T11:13:00.001-04:002013-07-05T11:15:48.517-04:00BBISS Hosts Sustainable Engineering Educators<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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College and university engineering educators from around the country convened at Georgia Tech to learn how to integrate sustainability into their engineering curriculum
and pedagogy. About 35 participants from a wide spectrum of engineering
specialties worked with experts in the field of sustainable engineering
and shared their experiences to advance theBBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-53643672794238261902013-02-28T12:16:00.004-05:002013-02-28T12:25:24.328-05:00New Open Journal of the Anthropocene
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BBISS Deputy Director, Michael Chang,
is a founding editor-in-chief for the new online academic journal Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.
Elementa is based
on an BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-63499681117774177422013-01-16T12:50:00.000-05:002013-02-01T12:53:31.516-05:00VIRTUES of a Workforce for the Next Industrial Revolution <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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January 2013
From L to R: Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson, Mary Hallisey-Hunt (SEI), Harriet Langford (Anderson Foundation), Michael Chang (BBISS)
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BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-83672840391541753842012-08-27T08:56:00.000-04:002012-08-27T17:26:10.558-04:00Tsinghua University Students visit BBISS
August 2012
Prof. Crittenden with visiting and BBISS students.
Earlier this month, eight students and one faculty member from
Tsinghua University’s School of Environment
visited
Georgia Tech for two weeks as part of a student
exchange program. It was funded by a cost sharing collaboration between
Tsingua BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-86152982226193607712012-06-21T16:23:00.000-04:002012-08-27T09:04:31.019-04:00BBISS Researchers Tour Eco-Cities in China
Profs. Crittenden and Brown tour Tianjin Eco-City.
It
would be no surprise to anyone to hear that China is well into a building
boom. The nation is very rapidly
urbanizing due to its expanding manufacturing sector. Large cities are being constructed from
scratch where there once was open rural land.
It might surprise some that many of these will be eco-cities, designed
and BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-45523661661117510722012-03-20T16:26:00.010-04:002012-03-20T17:06:00.668-04:00St. Patrick’s Day to Earth Day : a Month of GreenOne of the most common ways to get into the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day is to wear green clothing, in our case, socks. While expressing one’s green inclinations outwardly with colorful attire should never be discouraged, opportunities abound at Georgia Tech to act on, and internalize that spirit of green. So, perhaps St. Patty’s Day is best seen as a warm-up to a whole month of green themed BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-68957308269626460832011-12-08T14:36:00.001-05:002011-12-08T14:36:57.297-05:00China's Carbon ExportNovember 2011
Among countries, China recently has become the largest emitter of carbon dioxide. This milestone was reached at an astonishingly rapid pace. The drivers of China’s emissions explosion are obvious, but the policies for dealing with it are more complicated than one might assume. International manufacturing and trade has turned BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-37236391631537007212011-09-29T14:45:00.007-04:002011-10-10T16:27:53.766-04:00The Sustainable Reck Prize ChallengeAs part of Georgia Tech’s 2011 Homecoming celebration, the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems is challenging students and alumni to design, build, and enter in the Ramblin' Reck Parade a Fixed Body or Contraption Reck that is NOT powered directly by petroleum based gasoline or diesel internal combustion engines, and hasBBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-27909506916585914182011-07-01T10:56:00.002-04:002011-09-22T18:33:51.363-04:00A Letter to Entering Freshmen at Georgia Tech, Class of 2015For the last 150 years, the United States has been a global leader in technological innovations of all kinds that have increased prosperity, improved health, and provided positive opportunities for all humans throughout the world. For 125 of those years, Georgia Tech graduates have played a significant role in that long run of human progress, and come August, you will join the ranks of engineers,BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-58632400777201583322011-05-13T13:31:00.013-04:002011-05-13T16:16:42.896-04:00100 Sustainability Articles
The following is a sample of 100 sustainability related publications by investigators at Georgia Tech over the last 5 years (2006-2010) spanning a range of topics including transportation, buildings, energy, environment, metrics, curriculum, decision making, philosophy, climate, natural resources, economics, design, policy, and BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-67575484249073501312011-04-04T19:51:00.004-04:002011-05-06T17:09:28.787-04:00Winning!
2011 I2S Winning Team. Click to Play Video
Urban RePeel, a team consisting of Jared McGrath and Ryan Ravanelle from the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, and Nicole Sullivan from Environmental Engineering, won the 2011 Georgia Tech Ideas To SERVE competition. In addition, the team also picked up the People’s Choice Award for the poster competition and runner-up in the BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-85143017793861103162011-02-11T12:55:00.002-05:002011-02-16T16:13:45.707-05:00How to Earn a Degree in Sustainability at Georgia TechIn the latter half of the 1800s, there was no better career advice than to “go West young man.”[1] In the latter half of the 1900s, success was summarized and made famous in one word: “plastics.”[2] And so it is that every generation gets advice on how to succeed, and today there is no higher career calling than one that is “sustainable.” BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-77578660358214145862010-05-07T09:06:00.002-04:002010-05-07T09:27:33.308-04:00Extreme Makeover - Urban EditionBy Michael E. ChangDeputy Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable SystemsMay 2010
When the question was asked “Why do you rob banks?” the infamous retort was “Because that is where the money is.” And so it is with sustainability and cities. Globally, more people now live in urban areas than in rural areas. While we passed that majority urban milestone in Georgia about 50 years ago, and BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8993492715390031636.post-37151617523475143102010-03-30T06:57:00.000-04:002010-03-30T07:14:13.790-04:00Atlanta: Birthplace of Sustainability?<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>BBISS...http://www.blogger.com/profile/02717415438835803888noreply@blogger.com0