With many links on Sustainability

RESOURCE PRODUCTIVITY

eco-efficiency

     Resource productivity (eco-efficiency) must be radically improved in the decades to come in order to avoid, that the ongoing growth in global consumption will lead to environmental disaster. Improving resource productivity means using fewer natural resources per unit of consumption - to do more with less. This reduces the impact on the environment from consumption
     The purpose of this web site is to explain the background for this necessity and the role of science and technology in securing sustainability as well as the need for a tax shift to eco-taxes to further this development.

• What is Resource Productivity

• What is Eco-Efficiency

• How is Resource Productivity increased

• State of the Planet - 5 graphs from Time Magazine August 2002

• Growth of Global Consumption - Worldwatch Institute 2004

Sections on this site:

• A brief Summary

• Why Resource Productivity must be improved

• A similar text in FRENCH

• Questions regarding Resource Productivity

• Present and future Resource Cycles

• The Paul Ehrlich Equation I = P * A * T

• Setting Eco Taxes will be difficult

• A simplified tax reform Example

• Take-Back obligations as instrument

• A Meadows graph you should know

• Herman E. Daly on eco-taxes.

• Paul Hawken on Natural Capitalism.

• Technology Links relating to the 2001 IPCC report on Mitigation

Global Consumption Growth Calculator

• NOTE ! The Calculator has been moved to a new website

 My Links of the Month

• No new Links after December 2002