Library

Recent technical articles

• Getting a Handle on Geographic Emissions, Environmental Leader (2012).
• When Emissions are Outsourced, Environmental Leader (2012).
• Is There a Leaner Way to Footprint?, GreenBiz (2012).
• Six Lesser-Known Climate Facts, Environmental Leader (2012).
• 3 Ways to Get Ahead of Climate Change, Without Ditching Oil (Yet), GreenBiz (2012).
• Resource Efficiency vs. Carbon Reduction, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Climate Change and the Consumption Trap, GreenBiz (2011).
• Will 10 Billion of Us Have Enough to Eat?, Sustainable Business Oregon (2011).
• Closing the Materials Loop, Environmental Leader (2011).
• The Anatomy of Food Waste, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Scope 3: Pivoting to Material Efficiency, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Is Sustainability All about the Supply Chain?, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Framing the Food Sustainability Challenge, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Waste Not: The Case for Material Efficiency, Sustainable Industries (2011).

Recent research papers and reports

• The Climate Change and Economic Impacts of Food Waste in the United States, Journal on Food System Dynamics (2012).
• Food Transportation Issues and Reducing the Carbon Footprint, in Green Technologies in Food Production and Processing (ed: Y. Arcand & J. Boye), Springer (2012).
• Comparison of Twelve Organic and Conventional Farming Systems: A Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions Perspective, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture (2012). (Previous draft full-text here.)
• Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health - Life-cycle Assessments: Methodology and Results, Environmental Working Group (2011). (Plus, clarifying notes on beef and lamb LCAs)
• MyPlate: An Analysis of Climate Change Impact, CleanMetrics Technical Brief (2011).
• Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade, in Unifying Themes in Complex Systems (ed: A. Minai, et al), Chap. 25, Springer (2010).
• Institutional Food Footprint: The Impact of Food Packaging, Waste, and Transportation, Third Annual Meeting of the American Association of Wine Economists (2009).
• The Energy and Carbon Intensity of Wine Distribution: A Study of Logistical Options for Delivering Wine to Consumers, Journal of Cleaner Production (2009).
• Measuring the Effects of Food Carbon Footprint Training on Consumers, Sustainability: The Journal of Record (2009).
• Enhancing the Environmental Performance of Supply Chains, in Positive Development: from vicious circles to virtuous cycles through built environment design (ed: J. Birkeland), Earthscan Publishers (2008).
• Red, White and Green: Investigating the Energy Intensity of Wine Distribution, International Conference on Business and Sustainability (2007).
• Determining the Effects of a Food Carbon Footprint Training Tool on Consumer Knowledge, Transfer Intentions, and Environmental Self-Efficacy, International Conference on Business and Sustainability (2007).
• Greening the Supply Chain: Improving Carbon Emissions in the Distribution of Food and Beverages, INFORMS Annual Meeting (2007).
• Analyzing and Optimizing the Environmental Performance of Supply Chains, ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry (2007).
• Emergence of Networks in Distance-Constrained Trade, InterJournal & International Conference on Complex Systems (2006).
• An Agent-Based Model of Trade with Distance-Based Transaction Cost, Summer Computer Simulation Conference (2006).
• Is Lean Necessarily Green?, 50th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (2006).
• Using Simulation to Understand and Optimize a Lean Service Process, Spring Simulation MultiConference (2006)
• System dynamics model of municipal recycling, policy options and social dynamics
• System dynamics model of predator-prey dynamics, wildlife management and policy options
• Ecological Consequences of Doubling the Atmospheric CO2 Concentration University of California, Berkeley (1999).

External reports and books referencing CleanMetrics

• Data Availability for Carbon Calculators in Measuring GHG Emissions Produced by the Food Sector, International Journal on Food System Dynamics (2011).
• The Great Food Robbery: How Corporations Control Food, Grab Land and Destroy the Climate, Pambazuka Press (2012)
• Green Product Design: EL Insights, Environmental Leader (2011).
• Life Cycle Assessment: A Guide for Sustainability and Strategy Executives, Green Research (2011).
• Smart Innovators Product LCA Software, Verdantix (2011).
• Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, Skyhorse Publishing (2011).
• Food Delivery Footprint: Addressing Transportation, Packaging and Waste in the Food Supply Chain, Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium (2010).
• Sustainable Supply Chain Design: Capturing Dynamic Input Factors, Journal of Simulation (2010).
• Overview of Carbon Calculators with Focus on Food Chain, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Bonn (2010).
• Atmospheric Alienation, Carbon Tracking and Geo-Techno Agency, CTHEORY (2010).
• Sustaining the Global Food Supply Chain (GFSC): an Ecosystem Approach, Aberdeen Group (2009).
• The ROI of Sustainability: Making the Business Case, Aberdeen Group (2009).
• A Classification of Carbon Footprint Methods Used by Companies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009).
• Environmental Impacts of Food Procurement, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (2008).
• Sustainable Logistics: Towards the Development of Environmentally Conscious Supply Chains, EPA - Ireland (2007).

Selected articles: Technology, globalization, and sustainability

• Sustainable consumption: For all our ingenuity, it still comes down to using less, The Oregonian (2011).
• Modernization of India Leaves Most of Its People Behind, San Jose Mercury News (2005).
• The Hidden Costs of Comparative Advantage, GreenBiz (2005).
• The Trouble with Sustainability, The Oregonian (2004).
• Choosing the Right Technologies, GreenBiz (2004).
• We Need a Balanced View of Productivity, San Jose Mercury News (2004).
• What Kind of Productivity Do We Need?, GreenBiz (2004).
• Free Trade: Benefit or Peril for the Environment?, GreenBiz (2004).
• Global Trade = Global Warming, Salon (2003).
• Global Trade and Climate Change, GreenBiz & ClimateBiz (2003).
• Globalization's Unanswered Questions, Common Dreams News Center (2003).
• Beware the Life Cycle of 'Recycled', The Christian Science Monitor (2003).
• Making Globalization Work,  Business Line (2003)
• Thinking Small: Globalization and the Choice of Technology, Orion Online (2003).
• Can Small Still Be Beautiful?, The Christian Science Monitor (2003).
• Can Silicon Valley Stay Relevant?, San Jose Mercury News (2002).
• Combatting E-waste, San Francisco Chronicle (2002).
• Deadly Distraction - Kashmir Conflict Bleeds Two Poor Nations, Pacific News Service (2002).
• Delving into the Digital Divide, IEEE Spectrum (2002).
• Digital Divide and Poverty, Journal of Poverty (2001).
• The Consumption Trap, Business Line (2001).
• Linking Global Warming to the Energy Crisis, San Francisco Chronicle (2001).
• Wrong Solution: Technology is Not What the Third World Hungers For, San Jose Mercury News (2001).

Selected research papers: Electronic design automation

• Timing Verification of Dynamic Circuits, IEEE Journal of Solid-state Circuits (1996).
• Generalized Delay Optimization of Resistive Interconnections Through an Extension of Logical Effort, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (1993).
• A Structured Design for Test Methodology, 11^th IEEE VLSI Test Symposium (1993).
• Follow these guidelines to design testable ASICs, boards and systems, EDN (1993).

Other research

• Performance Analysis of Three Interconnection Networks for Large Multimicrocomputer Systems

 

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