What is sustainable development?

• Needs and wants

• Stockholm meeting

• Brundtland report

• Rio summit

• Kyoto protocol

• Johannesburg summit

Earth Report

• Global Warming

• Population

• Prosperity

People, Planet, Profits

• Costs of sustainability

• Affordable electricity

Are you sustainable?

• Carbon calculator

• Improving your sustainability

Looking at sustainable development

Ecological sustainability

• Ecological footprints

• Different countries

• Measuring footprints

• What do ecological footprints consider?

• Life cycle assessment

• Coffee life cycle

• What goes into an LCA?

• Limits of LCA

Economic sustainability

• Oil crisis?

• Finding alternatives

• Cost resources and sustainability

• Vinnolit Optimisation Method

Social sustainability

• Social sustainability: quality of life

• Measuring social sustainability

• Human Development Index

The Natural Step Framework

• The Natural Step Framework

• Systems, lines and loops

• Aiming for a sustainable future

Sustainable PVC

• What is PVC?

• Uses of PVC

• PVC assessment by the Natural Step

• PVC moves to sustainability

• Greenpeace on PVC

Commitment to sustainability

• Manufacture

• Additives

• Waste management

PVC recycling

• Waste management: recycling

• Recycling by Vinyloop^®

• Feedstock recycling

• Recycling life cycle analysis

Eco-manufacture

• Eco-manufacture

• Towards carbon-neutral PVC production

Load of rubbish

• Municipal waste disposal

• Reduce, re-use and recycle

• What are the options?

• Sustainability rating for waste disposal

Electric cars

• Are electric cars sustainable?

• Why don't people buy electric cars?

• Electric-petrol hybrid cars

• Sustainability rating: electric, petrol or hybrid?

Cotton or polyester?
Natural ir synthetic?

• Cotton or polyester?

• Production and use

• Life cycle analysis of cotton and polyester

• You decide: cotton or polyester

Water pipes and window frames

• Wood and PVC window frames

• Life cycle of a window frame

• Life cycle analysis

• Sustainability rating: wood or PVC?

• Aluminium and PVC rainwater pipes

• Life cycle of a rainwater pipe

• Life cycle analysis

• Sustainability rating: aluminium or PVC?

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