IT and Environment Initiative

Online Education

This part of the website is devoted to presenting multimedia instructional content relating to Information Technology and Environmental Issues. The main content is lectures from public events with video, sound and slides accessible via the Web. Users need to have Window Media Player or Real Player installed on their computer in order to playback presentations (these programs are freely downloadable from the links). If you experience technical difficulties with playback of a presentation, please send email to itenv@hq.unu.edu.

A. For general audiences

Environmental implications of the IT revolution. Eric Williams (external link to program produced by GLOCOM, Tokyo)

B. Presentations from the International Symposium on IT and the Environment, Tokyo, 19-20 September, 2002 (event program)

Note: for high bandwidth files, users may experience dialog boxes requesting installation of Japanese fonts. If this is a problem, please use the low bandwidth version of the presentation.

1. Impacts of production, use and disposal of IT Hardware

Presentation 1.1 The 1.7 kg Microchip, Eric Williams, United Nations University

2. Environmental analysis of IT business models and lifestyle changes

Presentation 2.1: Environmental Impacts of Telecommuting, Arpad Horvath, University of California - Berkeley
Presentation 2.2: Energy use and Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce, Eric Williams, United Nations University
Presentation 2.3: Environmental impacts of E-commerce: Computer Software Sales, Daniel Sui, Texas A&M University
Presentation 2.4: ICT Facilitated Waste Exchanges, Kenichi Imai, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

3. Macro-perspectives on IT and the environment

Presentation 3.1: Dynamic Effects of IT on Economic Structure and Energy use, Shunsuke Mori, Tokyo Univ. of Science
Presentation 3.2: Effects of the IT Revolution on Economy and Environment, Yasuhiro Murota, Shonan Econometrics
Presentation 3.3: Input-output Analysis of Effects of IT on CO2 Emissions, Hitoshi Hayami, Keio University

4. Industry Perspectives

Presentation 4.1: Industrial Activities in Japan, Masayo Fujimoto, InterRisk Research & Consulting
Presentation 4.2: AT&T's R&D Efforts on Environmental Impacts of IT, Michelle Blazek, AT&T
Presentation 4.3: IT and Environmental Monitoring, Katsuhiko Honjo, NTT
Presentation 4.4: IT as Enabler of Ecodesign Targets, Tsuyoshi Koga, Fujitsu
Presentation 4.5: NEC's Goal to Harmonize IT and the Environment, Ryosuke Ugo, NEC

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Presentation 1.1
Title: The 1.7 kg Microchip
Presenter: Eric Williams, United Nations University
Length: 14 min. 22 sec.
Content: overview of research results assessing materials and energy use in the production and use of microchips.
Additional material: article abstract in Publications (pdf file)
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Presentation 2.1
Title: Environmental Impacts of Telecommuting
Presenter: Arpad Horvath, University of California - Berkeley
Length: 28 min. 55 sec.
Content: planning model for estimating and managing the environmental implications of telecommuting
Additional material: article abstract in Publications (pdf file)
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Presentation 2.2
Title: Energy use and Business-to-Consumer E-Commerce
Presenter: Eric Williams, United Nations University
Length: 34 min. 55 sec
Content: theory and case study results on energy use for conventional retail and online retailing.
Additional material: article abstract in Publications (pdf file)
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Presentation 2.3
Title: Environmental impacts of E-commerce: the Case of Computer Software Sales
Presenter: Daniel Sui, Texas A&M University (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 26 min. 40 sec
Content: research results on the environmental impact of E-commerce
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Presentation 2.4
Title: ICT Facilitated Waste Exchanges
Presenter: Kenichi Imai, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
Length: 30 min. 52 sec
Content: survey of Asian use of Internet commerce and networks to facilitate exchange of wastes between industries to be used as value-added inputs
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Presentation 3.1

Title: Dynamic Effects of IT on Economic Structure and Energy use
Presenter: Shunsuke Mori, Tokyo Univ. of Science (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 22 min. 50sec
Content: Analysis of the Relationships between IT Investments and the Industrial Structure Change in Japan using Input-Output Tables
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Presentation 3.2
Title: Effects of the IT Revolution on Economy and Environment: the 2010 Simulation
Presenter: Yasuhiro Murota, Shonan Econometrics (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 15 min. 32 sec
Content: macro-economic analysis of effects of IT on the environment.
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Presentation 3.3

Title: Input-output Analysis of Effects of IT on CO2 Emissions
Presenter: Hayami Hitoshi, Keio Univ. (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 22 min. 50sec
Content: CO2 emission analysis using input-output tables
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Presentation 4.1
Title: Industrial Activities in Japan
Presenter: Masayo Fujimoto, InterRisk Research & Consulting (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 29 min. 53 sec
Content: overview of how industries in Japan implement IT
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Presentation 4.2
Title: AT&T's R&D Efforts on Environmental Impacts of IT
Presenter: Michelle Blazek, AT&T
Length: 25 min
Content: AT&T's results on research and activities
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Presentation 4.3
Title: IT and Environmental Monitoring
Presenter: Katsuhiko Honjo, NTT (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 25 min. 09sec
Content: Survey of NTT's projects to use IT as a tool to improve sensing, collection and distribution of environmental information.

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Presentation 4.4

Title: IT as Enabler of Ecodesign Targets
Presenter: Tsuyoshi Koga, Fujitsu (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 24 min. 10sec
Content: Fujitsu's perspectives and case studies relating the the relationship between IT and environment

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Presentation 4.5

Title: NEC's Goal to Harmonize IT and the Environment
Presenter: Ryosuke Ugo, NEC (voice : simultaneous interpretation by NHK Information Network)
Length: 16 min. 50 sec
Content: survey of NEC's activities to apply IT as tool for the benefit of the environment
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