International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research (ISAER) The Emergy Society |
Welcome to the Emergy Society Web Site! We are an international society dedicated to the advancement of research on emergy and transformity as a means to accomplish better decision-making in a complex world. This work is accomplished within the framework of Energy Systems Theory (Odum 1994). Our goal is to support research and communication that will increase the quantity and improve the quality of emergy research throughout the world. You can explore our website to learn more about emergy, H.T. Odum, and our organization. Please join ISAER, if you are interested in accomplishing our goal Reference: Odum, H.T. 1994. Ecological and General Systems. University Press of Colorado, Niwot, CO. 644. p. |
The Emergy Society's Logo Please, go to the Logo page to see the Emergy Society's Logo developed by the Logo Committee in collaboration with Lux Design of San Francisco, CA. Logo designs from the ISAER Logo contest are also shown and we will use them in an artistic context to support our mission. |
Images from the 7th Biennial Emergy Research Conference Party at the Odum House Photographs by Sam Hopkins |
Emergy Society Home Page |
Access to the Emergy Society Database The Emergy Society Database of transformities and other unit emergy values is administered by Brandon K. Winfrey and it is currently open for use by all Emergy Society members and other interested parties. Please follow these steps to register. 1) Go to http://www.emergydatabase.org 2) Click the "Create new account" link on the left sidebar 3) Fill out a user name and password that you will use to sign into the website. 4) Provide an email where you can be reached so your account can be verified. 5) Be patient. Currently, user accounts are approved manually by the administrator. |
Thanks to those of you who are paying dues during the online meeting. Please Pay Your 2016 and 2017 Dues, if owed At the 5th Annual Meeting of ISAER, we approved raising the dues for full membership to $50.00. Student membership remains at $10.00. You can now pay dues for two or three years at one time or sign-up for automatic annual billing. A reduced rate membership of $25.00 is available as appropriate based on the member's financial conditions. |
A Prosperous Way Down Website and Blog “A Prosperous Way Down” is a proposition that we can change our ways enough to gradually reduce our energy use to fit the reduction of our resources. The website,prosperouswaydown.com, created by Mary Odum Logan concentrates on this proposition. It supports lively discussions on what we can do to fit the patterns of today and tomorrow. The book , A Prosperous Way Down, by Howard T. Odum and Elisabeth C. Odum, was published in 2001 by University Press of Colorado, 5589 Arapahoe Ave. Suite 206C, Boulder, Col. 80303. A paper by Betty Odum summaries much of the book. The paper will be presented at a workshop at the Friends General Conference, held at the University of Rhode Island July 1 - 7, 2012. You can download the paper by following this link to Betty's paper. Here is a link to a Report on the first Prosperous Way Down Workshop Posted by Enrique Ortega 09/24/12 |
The World Summit on Environmental Accounting (WSEA) was held at Beijing Normal University in Beijing China from July 4 to July 6, 2016. The conference was sponsored by ISAER and its China Chapter among other organizations. Dr. Yang Zhifeng and his group at Beijing Normal University's School of the Environment organized and carried out the meeting after their proposal was chosen by ISAER's International Conference Organizing committee, chaired by Murray Patterson. A full report on the meeting will be posted soon on our new website www.emergysociety.com. |
The ISAER Monthly Newsletter Coordinated by Enrique Ortega, President of the International Society for the Advancement of Emergy Research. We are requesting that newsletters be sent to us from Emergy Research groups around the world. Newsletters from the UNICAMP (University of Campinas) group in Campinas, Brazil and the Ecosystem Engineering Design Lab at the University of Maryland, USA are now posted. To read them follow the link to the complete newsletters found on the In the News page. Also, directions for sending Enrique a newsletter from your group are given on the "In the News" page. |