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Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air
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Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air

Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and with Less New Material

Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen
UIT Cambridge, 2015

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8

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Recommendation

This unusual book on halting global climate change addresses increased “material efficiency” and the recycling, reuse and extended use of “steel, cement, plastic, paper and aluminum” in industrial production. Engineers – including Cambridge professor Julian Allwood and Cambridge lecturer Jonathan Cullen – worked with their associates to produce this clever, entertaining, wide-ranging treatise on applying common sense to manufacturing and industry to prevent environmental degradation and to attempt to slow global warming. getAbstract recommends their original, implementable solutions to those who employ, make or shape materials and to those who influence these processes, including policy makers, risk managers, standards experts, investors, materials buyers and entrepreneurs.

Take-Aways

  • Global climate change results in large part from emissions that harm the environment.
  • An increase in the production of materials increases harmful emissions.
  • One-third of all the energy the world generates goes into manufacturing the building blocks of industrial production.

About the Authors

Julian Allwood, PhD, is a professor at the University of Cambridge, where Jonathan Cullen, PhD, is a lecturer. Mark Carruth, Daniel Cooper, Martin McBrien, Rachel Milford, Muiris Moynihan and Alexandra Patel are associates in the Low Carbon Materials Processing group, part of the WellMet2050 project to find ways to cut global carbon emissions from the production of steel and aluminum goods.

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