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What is Transition Engineering and Innovation and how will Splendid Engineering take me “Towards Better”?
Transition Engineering is the professional engineering discipline that deals with the application of science to the design, innovation and adaptation of engineered systems that meet the needs of today without compromising the ecological, societal and economic systems on which future generations depend to meet their own needs.
Transition Innovation is the process of change based on Transition Engineering. It’s a robust and effective process that enables organsiations to see more clearly how their organisation has changed, how it continues to change, and how it can adapt to a changing external future operating environment.
Towards better; Splendid Engineering is the first consultancy helping clients achieve long term sustainability with the Transition Engineering and Transition Innovation approach. We help people to think differently, and to adapt products, systems and organsiations to remain viable in a changing future.
The second annual gathering of Transition Engineers and Innovators is on 19th September and you are invited: You can join us in Bristol (£15) or online (free). register below.
This "The Big DO" - we all know we have to DO instead of just TALKING, so in this event we're going to work out what a typical organisation can do that is currently deeply wedded to fossil energy, to become independent of fossil energy and still prosper! Come and join us to find out how to do it.
Transition Engineering - The Big DO
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There is consensus THAT change is needed. Transition Engineering shows us HOW change will happen. It's easy to TALK about change - at this event we will DO change. The central work of this conference will be a co-working exercise in the UK, in New Zealand and online, in which we will work out how an...I am very pleased to have been invited to become a Fellow of IEMA. The letter says it's "in recognition of your long term commitment to sustainability and leadership within your field", and refers to the work I did at Ford on whole-system change to enable the circular use of plastics - which is very relevant now. I hope that I can contribute to the Fellows network by sharing and building the the Transition Engineering discipline.
#TransitionEngineering #GATE. @Global Association for Transition Engineering
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44738952
So we now know that private corporations are openly using the chemicals, banned in 2010, that cause Ozone depletion, because it is more profitable to do so.
The Montreal Protocol of 1976 was hailed as a great success for environmental legislation, because it did start to reverse the growth of the hole in the Ozone layer. This is the hole that was caused by human use of manufactured chemicals like CFCs. The Ozone layer protects all life forms from harmful UV rays (which cause suntan in low doses, and cancers and mutations of plants and animals in high doses, which means sick people and no food). After CFCs were banned the situation was getting better, now it's getting worse again.
The question is, how to bring about change that will work better than legislation?
Given that legislation like Montreal is based on continual improvement of business as usual, the answer (apologies for the same story, but it bears repeating), is Transition and specifically Transition Engineering. Adaptation of the whole engineered system so that it works in the long term future.
Transition of the system that exists around "cooling systems" and "insulation" so that the same services are provided without dependence on short term solutions like using CFCs.
What is the core purpose / value that is being provided to customers when they buy and install insulation? Comfortable homes, lower dependence on energy, lower running costs? How can the whole building system be designed to deliver that without using CFCs?
There may be technical solutions (substitution of one blowing agent with another) and non-technological solutions (easily enforceable legislation to prevent use of banned substances). How to make legislation enforceable? My policy making friends can advise on the design of policy so that compliance is in the interests of parties and doesn't need a big policing mechanism.
These technical and non-technical solutions, and many more, are all part of one system, and have to be all adapted together.
This is what is enabled by the "Integrated Transition Innovation Management and Engineering" (INTIME) approach.
see www.transitionengineering.org for more
China 'home foam' gas key to ozone mystery
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A banned chemical used to make household insulation is implicated in damage to the ozone layer.
