User:KeithRose/Environmental industrialism
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ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIALISM is a term coined by Darrell Keith Rose in his Master of Science thesis at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, March, 2005. The thesis title was "ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRIALISM: TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE HUMAN ENTERPRISE". Environmental Industrialism represents a new paradigm in business modeling that reconciles environmental impacts in the design process. Environmental industrialists identify market opportunities in environmental problems as they "redesign everything" using closed-loop design, industrial ecology and design for environment (dfe) principles, and sustainability concepts including social equity.
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Environmental Industrialism (EI) is business and industry that addresses environmental concerns.
It involves creating businesses and industries that serve environmental demands and fulfill the needs of achieving sustainability. It contains the body of design principles and concepts to transform the industrial complex to encompass principles of sustainability in order to build a Sustainable Human Enterprise (SHE) a human modality that reconciles mankind’s civilization with the principles of ecology. This includes the concepts of elegant lifecycle product and system redesign, and involves market principles and policy changes needed to implement this new modality. It builds a new paradigm of human commerce that respects the principles of ecology while recognizing the forces of self-interest. It is an imperative to the ongoing well being of our planet. It is a conceptual icon for a new age.
Excerpt from page 106: The ultimate goal of Environmental Industrialism is to resolve sustainability as an issue of concern and where possible to transcend sustainability to a level of restoration. EI will have succeeded when there is no longer a need for the term, when the ideas and consciousness are so thoroughly internalized and automatic that conducting endeavors out of context with sustainable and restorative principles is inconceivable.
Inherent in accomplishing this will be re-shaping the world economy and industry. Environmental industrialists will be the change agents ushering in this new era, ...
