Circular Economy Module 2 Study Calendar

CircularEconomyPGCert Study calendar - Module 2

Study calendar - Materials and Energy Week 0

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3rd February: 1 day residential York Science Park

James Clark pre-reader GCN-Jan newsletter.pdf Please read the latest newsletter from the Green Chemistry Network. Google the 12 Green Principles of Green Chemistry and compare to the 10 misunderstandings in the newsletter. James has also suggested looking at other newsletters accessed via www.greenchemistrynetwork.org.

James has suggested you identify one green product from the newsletter and/or from the lab tour which will form the basis for discussion in the final session at York on relevance to a circular economy framing.

Module 2 Day School programme.doc Study period 1 1-2

6th February: Topic 1: Resources & Technical Nutrients

Some guidance questions for study period 1 readers and resources. We will place the group into 4 action learning sets to share ideas and thoughts during and at the end of the 2 week period. This is not a heavy duty exercise but is a means to maintaining collaboration and rounding off the 2 week period.

Key questions for study period 1..doc Present an individual blog for reflection post visit to York - what did you find interesting, useful, inspiring, puzzling, what would you like to know more about, did it change your views about anything related to the circular economy or prior beliefs

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External talk/webinar date on Blackboard/Collaborate -Thursday 9th February, 7-8pm Ken Webster on ‘macroeconomic perspectives on Materials and Energy-an introduction to 'Towards the Circular Economy', a major report just launched by the Foundation (view this report in advance of the webinar -see link on Foundation home page www.ell enmacarthurfoundation.org)

Join Ken's talk here.

Readers – (attached as primary docs)

Julian Allwood et al: A very detail but interesting paper by an author attracting a lot of attention for his work on materials efficiency.

Allwood_MaterialEfficiency (1).pdf UN report on strategic metal stocks. A report that provides a UN perspective on some strategic critical metals and scope for upcycling.

Metals_Recycling_Rates_Summar y.pdf WRAP report- metals in Household waste (via Roland). A short report on the disposal of WEEE waste in household waste highlights the amount thrown away that can be recovered and remanufactured.

WRAP_WEEE_HWRC_summary _Sheet.0e48d78e.11561.pdf

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Wuppertal MASRES project report pp 8-17 Fig 2 and Table 5. A long and fairly dense report from the well known Wuppertal institute.

We have selected a very shot section of this report to compare and contrast findings to the Allwood paper.

MaRess_FinalReport.pdf External talk/webinar on Blackboard/Collaborate date and time tbc Our very own Matt Polaine from BT will run a short presentation followed by a discussion on his work on CE within BT focussing on his recent work on plastic waste recovery.

Other resources to check out linked to Matt Polaine Talk and of general interest re Plastic/polymeric waste recovery.

TED TALKS – Mike Biddleplastic feedstock http://ecocloud-sv.com/video/ted-t alk-mike-biddle-we-can-recycle-pl astic MBA reprocessing facility http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =lpq_Mum-kO0&feature=related Interview with Michael Braunghart on Material Shortages

http://catalystsdr.com/2011/02/a-c onversation-with-dr-michael-braun gart-on-material-shortages-and-des igning-a-new-material-world/

At the end of the two week period we will ask each action learning set to provide a short focussed response to the 2 week period against the initial questions raised ? What did/didn't we learn ? What new questions have been generated ? Was the 2

week period successful/effective

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Study period 2 - under construction 3-4

20th February:Topic 2: Renewables

Key questions for study period to structure the 2 week period ( to be uploaded at start of study period 1) External speaker webinar on Blackboard/Collaborate date and time tbc: Jean-marc Jancovici on Energy tbc You will need to view the new 10min Foundation/UoB film of Jean-marc before this webinar link Readers A report from the German renewables energy agency showing how Germany can achieve a 47% renewable energy figure (without nuclear) by 2020 how is this possible (given UK target is 15%) Â Full_Picture_of_Renewable_Energ y.pdf A report by Greenpeace on de-centralised power generation and distribution network ( sorry Ruby and Ian). Is this feasible and how what are the pros and cons in terms of a circular economy ? Â decentralised grids.pdf Are renewable energies so benign ? Or if not careful do we simply create a series of other problems and pressure states ? http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edi tion/columnists/dawn-stover/the-m yth-of-renewable-energy Individual tutorial to discuss assessment - date and time between tutor and student ( list of

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tutees to be posted in GoogleDocs) Other resources TED Talks: Amory Lovins reinventing fire http://ecocloud-sv.com/video/gree nbuild-2011-master-speaker-amory -lovins Prof Sally Benson Stanford - Solar Technologyhttp://ecocloud-sv.com/video/silicon-valley-buzz-alternate-energy-sources-part-1-r-d

Study period 3 -under construction 5-6

5th March: Topic 3: Biological nutrients and materials cascading

Key questions ( to be uploaded at start of study period 2) External speaker webinar on Blackboard/Collaborate date and time tbc Katja Hansen of EPEA – Waste water treatment You will need to view the new 10min Foundation/UoB film of Katja before this webinar link Readers What is cascading - a seminal (and long) journal article on the idea of cascading. This paper is not available electronically therefore you need to place an order to have this article copied and sent to you through our Distance Learning librarian support team Follow these links). http://www.bradford.ac.uk/library/ distance/index.php http://mintrowicz.wordpress.com/2 010/07/28/how-to-pay-for-distance -learning-service/

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Gunter Pauli Pulp to protein, cascading models, multiple cash flows TO ADD HERE 2 articles by Mae Wan Ho on Agriculture and biological materials Living green and circular Living_Green_and_Circular.pdf Sustainable agriculture and circular economy

Sustainable_Agriculture_green_en ergies_and_the_circular_ecÖ.pdf Other resources Mae Wan Ho and George Chan –food and farming and circular economy- see mae-wan from 10+1 conference –view the film at link Add link here Gunter Pauli Talk- Multiple Cash Flows (revisit) add link here Study period 4 7-8

19th March: Topic 4: Tools Questions for study period to structure the 2 week period ( to be and Certification

uploaded at start of study period 3) Readers Life cycle assessment and cradle to cradle Position paper -Usability of Life Cycle Assessment for Cradle to Cradle purposes-jan2012.pdf

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C2C key questions taken from EPEA training tool kit 110510 C2C Questions session.doc

Cradle to Cradle - what is it and how different from efficiency ? Â 19146867-Cradle-to-Cradle-Desig n (2).pdf Others HERE ( to ADD) External speaker webinar on Blackboard/Collaborate date and time tbc James Clark for a reprise on Life cycle of molecules and complexity of analysis Other resources LCA talk shown at IoW weekend event (washing machine) MORE Online conference March 29th via Blackboard/Collaborate Submit module assignment Monday April 2nd Module review and evaluation 9-10

Bristol online survey 2nd April: Module review and evaluation

End of module

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