ISAER - International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research

Emergy Workshop
2023-06-14 | Zoom Meeting
Tom Abel, as Chair of the ISAER Prosperous Way Down (PWD) working group, is organizing an interactive web-based workshop about the state of the future.

Does humanity have the means to avoid potential disasters, already described by many, to build a prosperous future? The pessimist says, “not likely”, the idealist suggests, naively “of course”. The systems scientist says, look for system principles that may help to illuminate a way forward… not to tell people what to do, but to show them what will be required of them.

If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Mark Brown at mtb@ufl.edu with the subject Futures Workshop. We will then send those interested in attending more information about the structure of the workshop and a ZOOM link to join on June 14th.

11TH BIENNIAL EMERGY RESEARCH CONFERENCE – 2023
2023-01-12 - 2023-01-14 | J. WAYNE REITZ UNION, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, 655 Reitz Union Drive, Gainesville, FL, 32603, United States

EMERGY & ENVIRONMENTTAL ACCOUNTING
2022-10-17 08:00 - 2022-10-21 17:00 (America/New_York) | Haidian District
A live and virtual 5-day workshop stressing
emergy theory, concepts, and principles
The workshop is composed of four sessions each day, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. One or two sessions each day will be devoted to case studies that include hands-on computations of emergy or simulation of models to reinforce the lecture material and extend understanding of systems concepts.
Access to a laptop computer and EXCEL software will be necessary. Course materials will be downloadable from the course website.

Mini-Conference #5
2022-06-29 08:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Online, www.isaer.org, United States

WEBINAR 2.0 - Information and Emergy: What Did Odum Intend?
2022-06-10 13:00 - 15:00 UTC | Online, www.isaer.org, United States
Tom Abel, Tzu Chi University
Over two years and a deep dive into Odum’s writings on the topic of ‘information’, I have written three papers, coming at the topic from different directions. I wish to share what I have learned with the emergy community. The first paper is a review of Odum’s theoretical position on information, what it is, and what it does. That paper then connects Odum’s information and his Fifth Law Hierarchy Principle to my continuing development of a hierarchy of cultural information forms. The second paper looks exclusively at Odum’s application of emergy to information. It reviews all of Odum’s information emergy studies to extract a number of evaluation principles that he developed over time. It then applies those principles in a new emergy analysis of one of the scales of cultural information production, duplicating several of the approaches that Odum established. The third paper is addressed to exploring Odum’s ‘structural life cycles’ approach to the information cycle, an approach that I now feel is superior to his first efforts in 1996. That method is demonstrated with Odum’s analysis of Texas Highways. In total, this talk should give you an ‘Odum overview’ of an extremely important topic in the world, the production and reproduction of information. Today, we know these information forms as social media, scientific research, movies, games, sacred texts, money, military tactics and technologies, laws, and others, each that ‘feeds-back control’ to shape all of our lives.

The 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research
2021-05-03 08:00 - 2021-05-09 17:00 (America/New_York) | Haidian District
The 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement for Emergy Research, a.k.a., the Emergy Society, will be held in the Members' Area of this website from Monday, May 3, 2021, until Saturday, May 8, 2021.
Four members of the Executive Council will be elected by April 30, 2021. Voting will begin in the Members' Area on Friday, April 23, 2021, and extend through April 30, 2021. the votes will be counted on May 1, 2021, and the results announced at the Annual Meeting.
Note: Emergy Synthesis 11 and the 13th Annual Meeting of the Emergy Society were not convened because of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

3rd International School on Emergy Accounting, Venice
2018-05-21 - 2018-05-25 | Ca’Foscari University, Dorsoduro, 3246, Venezia VE, 30123, Italy
You are cordially invited to join the 3rd International School on Emergy Accounting at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
The analysis of human and environmental systems requires skills, tools, language and methodologies pertaining to the systemic aspects which characterize complex systems.
Emergy Accounting provides a comprehensive integrated methodology that brings together scientific, environmental and socio-economic aspects of system analysis.
Organized by Ca'Foscari University, the Venice International School on Emergy Accounting brings together students and researchers from a variety of disciplines in the physical, biological, and social sciences, with the aim of exploring the developments of Emergy science and its application to specific areas and issues.
