1. Sustainability and
Sustainability in Consumer
Electronics
Presnted by Gudur V.Y
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2. Points covered in the seminar
SUSTAINABILITY AND SUSTAINABLE
ENGINEERING
SUSTAINABILITY IN CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS
EXAMPLES OF GREEN ENERGY AND
GREEN PRODUCTS
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3. SUSTAINABILITY AND
SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING
• Misconceptions about sustainability and
sustainable engineering
– Green engineering
– Renewable energy
– eco-design, disassembly/recycling and
designing
– stop polluting, reduce emissions, prevent
waste
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4. What does ‘sustainability’
mean?
• The Brundtland definition:
Development that meets the needs and
aspirations of the present without
compromising the ability to meet those of the
future is sustainable development
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5. Few points observed from
Brundtland definition of
sustainable engineering:
• Not only concerned about environment
• No mention of technology
• Engineers- there is again no explicit
mention of them
• no mention of the commercial spectrum
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6. Sustainability and Development
• Sustainability implies at minimum
• Development is not mere survival
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7. AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH
FOR SUSTAINABILITY:
sustainable development
means development of the
whole ecosystem including
humans, biota, environment,
and all.
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8. • sustainable development means
development of the whole ecosystem
including humans, biota, environment, and
all.
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9. Sustainability and the stool
• Triple Bottom Line
Three pillars of sustainability – economy,
environment and society
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10. Sustainable engineering
• Sustainable engineering can be defined as
‘ensuring the sustainability of the entire
commercial spectrum, from product to
planet, across the Triple Bottom Line of
socio-, enviro- and econo-sustainability’.
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11. Product examples:
The millennium development goals (MDGs) by UN:
The goals are:
1) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2) Achieve universal primary education
3) Promote gender equality and empower women
4) Reduce child mortality
5) Improve maternal health
6) Combat HIV/aids, malaria, and other diseases
7) Ensure environmental sustainability
8) Develop a global partnership forTemplates
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12. Product Examples
• The solar powered water pump
• Personal transport
• Communications
• Light bulbs
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13. Key principles that underpin
sustainable engineering :
• KP 1: While the varied understandings of sustainable engineering
are all valid in themselves, a full understanding requires all three
aspects of the Triple Bottom Line.
• KP 2: Designing for the environment is not designing for
sustainability.
• KP 3: Product line longevity is a requirement, and can lead to
econo- and socio-sustainability.
• KP 4: A product must satisfy its key functions if it is to be econo-
sustainable.
• KP 5: The quality of sustainable products must be at least as good
as that of the equivalent non-sustainable product, if not better.
• KP 6: Econo-sustainability, and thence all sustainability, relies on a
true understanding of the consumers wishes and demands and the
consequent product functionality required
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14. Conclusions of Sustainability
and Sustainable Engineering
• Key principles can help practising engineers and
engineering students, who are usually not specialists in
sustainability,to find the place of sustainable engineering
within their own disciplines and professional lives
• Triple Bottom Line of socio-, econo- and enviro-
sustainability.
• Equally, it must be remembered that econo-sustainability
is only the starting point that socio- and enviro-
sustainability can build on.
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