Past Talks
This series provided an opportunity to highlight the research conducted by the faculty, staff and visiting researchers at the Center, along with guest speakers, for the IE community at YSE. The talks are typically held during Friday lunch with time for Q&A and feedback from the audience.
Atmospheric CO2 Removal by Enhanced Weathering of Mine Tailings Through Engineered Systems”, with Prof. Aidong Yang
April 29, 2022 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Environmental Benefits of Utilizing Urban Tree Waste in the United States”, with Dr. Kai Lan
March 18, 2022 - 8:00am to 9:00am
How to Feed the Global Population without Greenhouse Gas Emissions? — Flow analysis of global nitrogen fertilizers and opportunities for mitigation”, with André Cabrera Serrenho
March 11, 2022 - 7:00am to 8:00am
Global Rare Earth Politics: Persistent Myths, Policy Challenges, and Possible Pathways Forward, with Dr. Julie Klinger
February 25, 2022 - 7:00am to 8:00am
Closing the US Recycling Gap II: Modeling evidence for policy interventions, with Dr. Stijn van Ewijk
December 10, 2021 - 7:00am
Closing the US recycling gap I: field studies to improve household recycling behavior, with Cecilia Shutters
December 3, 2021 - 7:00am
No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World, with Deborah Gordon
November 19, 2021 - 7:00am
The Role of Fuel and Energy Recovery from Non-recyclable Materials in Circular/low-carbon Economy Policies, with Dr. Thanos Bourtsalas
November 12, 2021 - 2:32pm
Dynamics: Metal Criticality’s Fourth Dimension”, with Prof. Emeritus Thomas Graedel
October 29, 2021 - 8:00am
What can America Learn from Circular Economy in Africa?, with Joanna Bingham
October 8, 2021 - 8:00am
Carbon Capture and Utilization in the Perspective of Eco-industrial Parks and Networks, with Prof. Suren Erkman
April 30, 2021 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Creating a Sustainable Food Waste Management Ecosystem, with Prof. Callie Babbitt, RIT
April 9, 2021 - 8:00am to 9:00am
The Science Behind Mapping, Measuring, and Reducing Amazon’s Carbon Footprint, with Mike Taptich, Sr. Research Scientist
March 26, 2021 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Industrial ecology for infrastructure: Challenges and opportunities to change how we build the world, with Shoshanna Saxe
March 19, 2021 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Material efficiency strategies for a low-carbon future: a policy perspective, with Reid Lifset
March 12, 2021 - 7:00am to 8:00am
The use of Life cycle assessment in policies and in impact assessment thereof, with Serenella Sala, Joint Research Centre, European Commission
March 5, 2021 - 7:00am to 8:00am
Are There Limits to Circularity? with Professor Emeritus, Thomas Graedel
February 19, 2021 - 7:00am to 8:00am
ISIE Student Chapter President's Chat
November 13, 2020 - 7:00am to 8:00am
How Good Intentions Paved the Way to an Environmental Hell
October 23, 2020 - 8:00am to 9:00am
A cradle to grave analysis of clay bricks in Italy and Optimizing the Use of Colors in Online Publishing
October 23, 2020 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Opportunities in Post-Industrial Organics Recycling
October 9, 2020 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Past CIE Lunchtime Series Talks Fall 2017 to Fall 2020
2019-2020 series:
- Collaborations in and contributions to the field of industrial ecology,
- Paul Hoekman, Executive Director, International Society for Industrial Ecology
- Resource Efficiency Strategies to Mitigate GHG Emissions from Homes and Cars, Professor Edgar Hertwich, NTNU.
- Characterizing the Materials Footprint of a Univesity Campus, Rachel Perlman, PhD Candidate, MIT
- Accelerating the transition to low carbon industrial systems,
- Daniel Cooper PhD, University of Michigan,
- Riding the Circular Economy Wave, Stijn Van Ewijk, Postdoctoral Associate
- Stakeholders’ behaviors in bioenergy development and waste management: incentives and business model, Professor Tingting Liu, Visiting Fellow
- On Demand Manufacturing – Real Opportunity or Fiction, Monica Magdas Miller, Founder/ CEO – Iconoclast Studio and Santicle
- Drivers of change in residential energy consumption in the US. Investigating the roles of evolving housing age cohorts, fuel switching, and household size, Peter Berrill, PhD candidate
- Energy and resource benefits of metal recycling, Barbara Reck, Senior Research Scientist
- Sustainability Implications of Consumer Electronics Adoption in the United States, Shahana Althaf, Posdoctoral Associate
2018-2019 series:
- Why have greenhouse gas emission from material production doubled since 2000 and how can they be brought under control?, Professor Edgar Hertwich
- Re-examining the climate–trade dilemma and recourse nexus in China, Prof. Xu Tang, Visiting Fulbright Fellow
- Research methods to quantify the consumption of non-metallic minerals used in constructions, Alessio Miatto, Postdoctoral Associate
- Copper contamination in end-of-life steel recycling: developing a new strategy from million-tonnes to milligrams, Katie Daehn, PhD candidate
- IoT& Data in the Context of Smart Buildings and Smart Cities : Micro to Macro, Prof. Sekhar Kondepudi, Director, MSc in Environmental Management (MEM) Program, National University of Singapore
- Oil Abundance: New Climate Strategies for 21st Century Unconventional Energy Resources, Deborah Gordon, Director, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
- Anyone Want my Half Eaten Artisanal Sandwich?: Food in the Sharing Economy, Tamar Makov, PhD candidate.
- Urban Mining towards Environmental and Resource Sustainability: Science, Technology and Policy, Dr. Xianlai Zeng, Fulbright Visiting Fellow, from Tsinghua University.
- Introduction to Green Chemistry through the Green ChemisTREE, Hanno Erythropel,Postdoctoral Associate, and Laurene Petitjean, PhD candidate, from the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering
- Just Transitions and Socio-Metabolic Transformation: Learning Lessons from the Global Renewable Energy Transition, Mark Swilling, Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University.
- Applied LCA: Climate Mitigation for Passenger Vehicles, Qinghsi Tu, Postdoctoral Associate
2017-2018 series:
- Life Cycle Assessment in the Chinese Auto Industry, Xin Sun, Chinese Automotive Technology and Resource Center
- Incorporating Use of Capital into US Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis, Peter Berrill and Reed Miller, PhD candidates
- The Rectangular Choice-of-Technologies Model: Resource Scarcity, Stock-Flow Dynamics, and Recycling
- Potential in an Input-Output Context, Nathaniel Springer, Postdoctoral Researcher
- Industry and Climate Change Mitigation, Prof. Edgar Hertwich
- Bayesian Inference in Surface Water Quality Modeling, Farnaz Nojavan, Postdoctoral Associate
- LCA as a Decision Aid: Bridging the Academic - Business Divide, Thomas Swarr, Lecturer
- Experiences from the Metal Industry, Galdino Claro, former CEO of Sims Metal Managements
- Making the Invisible Visible: The Challenge of Quantifying the Climate Impact of Corporations, Suzanne Greene, Environmental Scientist, MIT
- How Blockchain will Transform the Trade of used Electronics, Rohi Sukhia, founder and CEO of Tradeloop Corporation
- Why Do We Recycle? Disciplinary Questions on Sustainable Municipal Waste Management, Samantha MacBride, Director of Research and Operations at the Bureau of Recycling and Sustainability, NYC Department of Sanitation