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Frank Becker | TU Berlin
The value conservation concept What is Green on ReUse-economy?
1111stststst World ReUse ForumWorld ReUse ForumWorld ReUse ForumWorld ReUse Forum
07 September, 2008
Session WRF.1.3: 14:00-16:30
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Project ReUse-Computer - aims and goals
new technical applications
and processes of reuse
developing new
strategies of use for
citizens, enterprises and
organizationssetting up a network
of enterprises in
Berlin
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"Anyone who believes
exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman
or an economist.
Kenneth E. Boulding
About 160 millions of PCs were sold globally in 2004
manufacturing of ONE PC spends about 535 kWh of energy *
for producing the microchips of ONE PC about 550 l of water are used/wasted *
manufacturing and transport of ONE PC cause 112 kg CO2-emission*
*related to a Pentium III of 1999
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Using systemic tools to develop
enterprise networks
The narrative aspect of social networks is telling stories.
Networks as social systems develop there own history by reflecting themselves through story-telling.
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Three basic factors of networks from the point of view of systems theory:
Reciprocity: Reciprocal exchange is different from the contractually regulated
exchange of generally accepted equivalents (usually money) and
refers to the situation in which agents only exchange their material
goods, services or intrinsic needs for appropriate or approximate
counter-performances.
Trust The partners share a common past with shared experience and an
anticipated common future. Exchange or cooperation is not based on
contracts but on trust.
SignificanceThere is an understanding that ones own success can be seen in the
benefit of a counterpart.
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The essential
measure of the
success of the
Spaceship economyis not production and
consumption at all, but
the nature, extent,
quality, and
complexity of the total
capital stock, including
in this the state of the
human bodies and
minds included in the
system.
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There is a broad field of various possible activities towards an sustainable entrepreneurship.
Activities are not restricted only to the interface between market of supply and demand and innovation of a new additional products.
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Karl Polanyi described four archetype economic models:
Reciprocity: this exchange of goods and services takes place in
accordance with a principle of mutual obligations; the goods and services
are exchanged on the basis of pre-determined or freely negotiated relative
benefits.
(Re-)Distribution: Goods and services are collected in a determined
relationship, stored (as far as possible for the item in question), and
redistributed.
Market: this exchange of goods and services is based on a price
established through supply and demand.
Barter: this exchange process is based on the usability of the bartered
goods and services.
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Niko Paech proposed four different economic-technological concepts:
Renovation: The reworking or refurbishment of existing goods for
the re-use or continued use.
Imitation: The adaptation /supplementing of an existing god by
transfer / adaptation / extension.
Exnovation: Taking an existing good out of use and
disassembling it into its parts.
Innovation: The development of a new additional good with all its
(production) technical pre-conditions.
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There is a broad field of various possible activities towards an sustainable entrepreneurship.
Activities are not restricted only to the interface between market of supply and demand and innovation of a new additional products.
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Human capitale.g. -Skills
-Communication skills- Power promoter
Social capital= Value of relationship
resources
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The interdependency
of all members of such
networks put into
practice the reproduction
of the network by generating
the output of reusable
computers, bicycles or other goods.
The interaction between the
network partners and with
their meaningfully surroundings
builds up societal cohesion
and social capital
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ConclusionReUse-networks contribute to a zero waste approach.
You can achieve a reduction of use of environment e.g. by the re-use of computers.
You save some 100 kg carbon dioxide even when you use a ReUse-Computer more than one year.
You can develop adjusted economic models, reciprocity, supply and demand market and other economic principals are working
together. You have to develop such models to get access to a sustainable entrepreneurship moving.
An appropriate way is to develop heterogeneous enterprise networks of SME and micro-enterprises.
Such networks are laboratories for an political economy of sustainable entrepreneurship and can be model for a
societal embedded economy.
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Frank Becker
University of Technology Berlin
Centre for Co-operation (ZEK)
Co-operation and Consulting for Environmental Questions
(kubus)
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