John Ehrenfeld

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John R. Ehrenfeld retired in 2000 as the Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment. He retired again in June 2009 as Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology after guiding its development since the Society was founded in 2000. He continues to be engaged in thinking, writing, and teaching about flourishing. He is the author of The Right Way to Flourish: Reconnecting with the Real World and Sustainability by Design: A Subversive Strategy for Transforming our Consumer Culture, and coauthored Flourishing: A Frank Conversation about Sustainability with Andrew Hoffman. In June 2009, the International Society for Industrial Ecology awarded him its Society Prize. In October 1999, the World Resources Institute honored him with a lifetime achievement award. He received the Founders Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Management’s Organization and Natural Environment Division in August 2000. He holds a BS and ScD in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and is author or co-author of over 200 papers, and other publications.

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Flourishing

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ISO 14001 and EPA Region I's StarTrack Program: Assessing their Potential as Tools in Environmental Protection

The US Congress initiated this study in FY 1998 when it asked the Academy to undertake an indepen... more

Waste incineration: Confronting the sources of disagreement

Environmental Impact Assessment Review, Sep 1, 1989

In June, 1988 the Hazardous Substances Management Program (HSMP) at the Massachusetts Institute o... more In June, 1988 the Hazardous Substances Management Program (HSMP) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sponsored a meeting entitled "Waste Incineration: Confronting the Sources of Disagreement." About 25 people from industry, government, environmental groups, citizens' groups, and academia attended the meeting. The meeting's purpose was twofold: to clarify the sources of disagreements over incineration as a waste management technology, and to search for areas of potential agreement. This paper details the meeting's findings. To place these findings in perspective, as well as to aid other people who may want to sponsor such a meeting, this article also discusses the meeting's format and the background research we conducted. Impetus for the Meeting Managing chemicals in the environment is a serious social responsibility. Despite the efforts of government, industry, environmental groups, and grassroots citizen organizations to address the problems that proper management entails (we include waste reduction in our definition of management), there has been little movement toward solving these problems. We take "movement" to be a set of coordinated, purposeful actions. We observe very little such movement toward improving chemical management practices. Debates surrounding waste incineration exemplify this situation. Too often these debates focus only on the negatives. Opponents contend that incinerators are not needed, are not safe, and are not fair. Proponents argue that alternatives are not feasible, and that they cannot afford to wait for waste reduction to occur

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