"Sustainable" or "clean" technology describes those technologies aimed
at sustainable development, or step-change advances aimed at reducing
the material, energy and environmental impacts of production processes.
Examples of clean technologies are: innovative use of renewable raw
materials, process intensification which allows local scale processing
to become economic, replacement of make and sell business models with
design and lease.
Many large companies are already adopting clean technologies; examples
of emergent themes include biodegradable polymers and the
re-introduction of traditional technologies.
The Sustainable Technologies Initiative programme funded a range of
projects with the common theme of revisiting technologies which have
been in use for a long time but have been neglected with respect to
their sustainable values. The projects looked at bringing traditional
methods up to date by applying them to new materials, or at applying
novel methods to traditional materials used in a new setting.
Our seminar at the Science Museum's Dana Centre in April 2006 brought
together researchers in and practitioners of the science and art of
're-inventing traditional technologies'. |
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Click to download Oakdene Hollins pdfs:
 Biodegradable Polymers and Sustainability(1.8MB)
The following pdfs are converted from presentations and contain speech.
 "Spring Power" by Duncan Grant & Trevor Bayliss (19MB)
"Sustainable Lime Based Composites" (21MB)
"Reframing Business Opportunities In The Development Of Traditional
Technologies" (13MB)
"Re-inventing Traditional
Technologies for Sustainable Innovation" (9MB)
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