1. Circular Economy

3. Humankind’s Success Story

4. www.nasa.gov

5. Human Evolution and Civilization

7. Population growth

9. Planet: State of the World

10. Climate change
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html

11. Energy (fossil fuels)

12. Consequences
Droughts Floodings Hurricanes

13. • Material and energy
flows
• Environmental,
economical and social
impact
• Goals: reduce, re-use
and recycle
Environmental Footprint

14. Resource scarcity

16. Is sustainable growth possible?
“We cannot solve our problems with
the same thinking we used when we
created them”
- Albert Einstein

17. Bill McDonough:
“It’s all about strategies of change”

18. Energy & Climate Change

19. Climate change

20. Consequences
Droughts Floodings Hurricanes

21. Renewable energy sources
• Wind
• Solar
• Geothermal
• Hydro
• Biomass
• Tidal & wave
• ...

22. What’s next? The Smart Grid

23. Resources & pollution

24. • Material and energy
flows
• Environmental,
economical and social
impact
• Goals: reduce, re-use
and recycle
Environmental Footprint

25. Resource scarcity

27. Linear system

28. Product study: plastic I

29. Plastic soup
Kamilo Beach, HawaiiPacific Ocean

31. Solution?

32. Circular Systems

33. Resource efficiency