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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]