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Authored papers | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/authored-papers/13Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Authored papers. 1. Related reports. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P. -
Sarah Nelson | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/current-people/sarah-nelsonSarah Nelson. Job title:. PhD Student. Sarah’s research bridges the disciplines of economics and engineering to assess barriers to urgent climate policy. ... The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions. -
Energy | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/sectors/energyThe technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions. ... A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling. -
All papers | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papersThe technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions. -
Whole Systems Analysis | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/research/materials-systems-analysisHow much cement can we do without? Lessons from cement material flows in the UK. ... A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling. -
A Use Less guide to buildings | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-live-well/buildingsLessons from indigenous architecture – for example in the Middle East). ... This is a manufacturing problem – and as yet no one has designed an economic means to retrofit houses fast enough, and at an appropriate cost, to motivate wide uptake. Results that match 1 of 2 words
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A Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/global-assessment-manufacturing-economic-development-energy-useA Global Assessment of Manufacturing: Economic Development, Energy Use, Carbon Emissions, and the Potential for Energy Efficiency and Materials Recycling. ... In the first part, we review economic development, pollution, and carbon emissions from a -
PhD Student | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/job-title/phd-studentSarah Nelson. Sarah’s research bridges the disciplines of economics and engineering to assess barriers to urgent climate policy. ... analysis. Sarah holds a Masters in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and Bachelors degrees in -
The technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons …
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papers/technological-and-social-timelines-climate-mitigation-lessons-12-pastThe technological and social timelines of climate mitigation: Lessons from 12 past transitions. -
How much cement can we do without? Lessons from cement material flows …
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/how-much-cement-can-we-do-without-lessons-cement-material-flows-ukHow much cement can we do without? Lessons from cement material flows in the UK. -
Use Less Economics | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-revolution/use-less-economicsof low carbon technology that will solve climate change while producing economic growth. ... Furthermore, most economic models are designed for exploring marginal changes from the present. -
Authored papers | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/authored-papers/57Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Authored papers. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P. -
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https://www.uselessgroup.org/taxonomy/term/99/feedSandy has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Metals and Energy Finance from the Imperial College Business School. -
Kirsten Helene Saward | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/current-people/kirsten-helene-sawardBefore joining the Use Less Group, Kirsten worked as administration manager in the communications department of a large international shipping company, as office manager for an economics consultancy and as a -
The role of metal forming in a world with zero emissions | The Use…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/blog/ictp-2023-keynoteClimate change is an issue of health and safety. It's not primarily an issue of economics. ... of steel that we would like if economic development continued without climate change. -
Use Less Industries | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industriesToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Industries. Today’s system of production evolved assuming that energy was abundant and without unwanted consequences, so it’s not surprising that industry now contributes so much to global -
Use Less: Live Well | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-live-wellToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less: Live Well. People could use less and live well. The average person in the UK weighs 70kg but the average car weighs 1400kg. When we drive the car – on average with one and a half people in it – -
A Use Less guide to making cars | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industries/carsToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to making cars. Automotive: by weight, the world’s automotive industries make more scrap metal than cars, but this can be solved. Future cars must be much smaller and lighter than today’s -
A Use Less guide to eating | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-live-well/eatingToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to eating. Our production and preparation of food leads to major sources of greenhouse gases and there are key opportunities to reduce these emissions. Food and drink account for 20% of -
Climate Change and the Environment | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/climate-change-and-environmentToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate Change and the Environment. Climate Change is real, it’s caused by human actions and it is already causing damage. "Despite the severity of the problem and our enthusiasm for talking about it, -
Global warming today and in the future | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/global-warming-today-and-futureThis question can be answered in many ways: we could create pie charts of global emissions divided by gas, by economic sector, or by the technology that causes the emissions to -
A Use Less guide to construction | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industries/constructionToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to construction. Construction: today’s commercial buildings are over-specified and under-used, but we could use less material to make buildings that last much longer. Half of the world’s -
A Use Less guide to transport | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-live-well/transportToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to transport. We can achieve our emissions cut to 25% of today’s levels while having access to the same level of personal transport in cars: we just need small, light cars with low -
A Use Less guide to making buildings, vehicles, goods and equipment | …
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industries/makingTypically, as countries begin their economic development, they build up their own bulk material industries, until they reach a stage of development that it’s cheaper to import the materials from -
A Use Less guide to the steel sector | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industries/steel-sectorToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to the steel sector. Steel: we will never need more blast furnaces than we have today but recycling will treble and could be reconfigured to produce high quality final products through -
Use Less technologies | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-revolution/use-less-technologiesToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less technologies. Much of the response to climate change to date has been to invest hope and money in the idea that technical innovation will lead to new profitable solutions to the problem. As made clear -
Material Efficiency: a White Paper | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/material-efficiency-white-paperIn industrialised nations, these strategies have had little attention, because of economic, regulatory and social barriers, which are each examined. -
Use Less Policy | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-revolution/use-less-policyToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Policy. The pathway to significant climate mitigation will depend on policy deployment, but in the short term public appetite for policies that influence energy demand is limited, and if applied -
Use Less Information | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-revolution/use-less-informationToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Use Less Information. Our work gained much stronger direction and clarity once we’d learnt how to present a holistic picture of the driver of an environmental problem – whether of greenhouse gas emissions, -
Cambridge engineers invent world’s first zero emissions cement | The…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/news/cambridge-engineers-invent-worlds-first-zero-emissions-cementemissions world and to enable economic development where it is most needed.’. -
Material Demand Reduction workshop for Royal Society Philosophical…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/news/material-demand-reduction-workshop-royal-society-philosophical-transactionsengineering, theology, history, fashion studies, economics, innovation studies, public health, sociology and psychology. ... Prof. Hamish Low, University of Cambridge, “Are prices enough? The economics of material demand reduction”. -
Reducing global emissions by changing our demand | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/global-warming-today-and-future/changing-demandToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by changing our demand. Climate change is real; we have to cut emissions significantly and rapidly; we don’t have any alternative forms of energy supply that we can deploy fast -
Authored papers | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/authored-papers/52Toggle navigation. Search form. Search.. Authored papers. The Use Less Group. The Department of Engineering. The University of Cambridge. Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1P. -
A Use Less guide to other materials | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/use-less-industries/use-less-guide-other-sectorsToggle navigation. Search form. Search. A Use Less guide to other materials. Other sectors: we have completed projects on cement, paper and aluminium and think that the industrial equipment sector has particular potential for innovating to release a -
Transitions to material efficiency in the UK steel economy | The Use…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/transitions-material-efficiency-uk-steel-economyA macro-economic analysis of steel in the UK shows that while the steel industry is relatively small, the construction and manufacturing sectors are large, and it would be politically unacceptable -
Climate change connections to water and land stress | The Use Less…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/climate-change-and-environment/water-and-land-stressToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate change connections to water and land stress. Global warming is changing our sources of fresh water and reducing the amount of land available for growing crops. Creating today’s energy supply requires -
What Do We Know About Metal Recycling Rates? | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/what-do-we-know-about-metal-recycling-ratesand an improved understanding of the dependence of recycling on economics, technology, and other factors. -
Reducing global emissions by being more efficient | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/global-warming-today-and-future/being-more-efficientToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by being more efficient. If we want to cut our use of energy in the developed economies to one quarter of today’s levels, can we do it by using the energy more efficiently? If we -
Theoretical efficiency limits in energy conversion devices | The Use…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/theoretical-efficiency-limits-energy-conversion-devicesCurrent surveys of energy efficiency measures assess only known technology options developed in response to current economic and technical drivers. -
Socio-technical factors influencing current trends in material…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/socio-technical-factors-influencing-current-trends-materialThese are: (1) customer preferences; (2) market positioning; (3) techno-economic feasibility; (4) supply chain feasibility; (5) regulation and (6) organisational attributes. -
Material Efficiency: providing material services with less material…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/material-efficiency-providing-material-services-less-materialThis paper, which introduces a Discussion Meeting Issue on the topic of material efficiency, aims to give an overview of current thinking on the topic, spanning environmental, engineering, economics, sociology and ... However, current economic structures -
Component level strategies for exploiting the lifespan of steel in…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/component-level-strategies-exploiting-lifespan-steel-productsThe resulting evidence is used to tailor life-extension strategies to each reason for product failure and to identify the economic motivations for implementing these strategies. -
Reducing global emissions by changing our energy supply | The Use…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/global-warming-today-and-future/changing-energy-supplyToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Reducing global emissions by changing our energy supply. For everybody, the simplest solution to climate change would be if we could find a new form of energy supply which didn’t release greenhouse gases. -
Climate change and critical materials | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/climate-change-and-environment/climate-change-and-critical-materialsToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Climate change and critical materials. Critical materials are not a problem related to climate change. In contrast, the bulk materials – particularly steel and cement – are major drivers of global warming, -
An approach to scenario analysis of the sustainability of an…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/outreach/publications/all-papers/approach-scenario-analysis-sustainability-industrial-sector-appliedThe approach includes calculation of a ‘triple bottom line graphic equaliser’ to allow exploration and evaluation of the trade-offs between economic, environmental and social impacts. -
The re-direction of small deposit mining: Technological solutions for …
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papers/re-direction-small-deposit-mining-technological-solutions-raw-materialseconomic and environmental context to the needs of the present day. -
The influence of UK emissions reduction targets on the emissions of…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papers/influence-uk-emissions-reduction-targets-emissions-global-steel-industryRecent UK economic policies have led to reduced domestic steel production giving an apparent reduction in national emissions. -
Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papers/re-framing-threat-global-warming-empirical-causal-loop-diagram-climateIt enables exploration of how the effects of climate change may undermine agricultural systems and disrupt food supply, which can lead to economic shocks, socio-political instability as well as starvation, -
Catchment Level Water Resource Constraints on UK Policies for…
https://www.uselessgroup.org/publications/all-papers/catchment-level-water-resource-constraints-uk-policies-low-carbon-energy-0While these energy system options meet emission targets at feasible economic cost, water requirement for the deployment of the proposed energy technology mix is not adequately accounted for. -
Prioritising climate change | The Use Less Group
https://www.uselessgroup.org/about-us/our-vision/climate-change-and-environment/climate-change-and-environment/prioritisingToggle navigation. Search form. Search. Prioritising climate change. The problem of climate change is global and the worst effects of today’s release of greenhouse gases will be felt by future generations who do not yet have a voice. Many
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