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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
| Please Pay Your 2015 Dues 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 years at one time. A reduced rate membership of $25.00 is available as appropriate based on the member's financial conditions. We met our goal of raising $4000 to support travel of five people to the Emergy Synthesis 8 conference. Thanks to four donors. Please pay your dues through setting-up a Pay Pal account or with a credit card by going to the dues and donations page on this web site and clicking on the link provided. |
| 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 host and venue for the World Summit - Emergy Analysis for Designing a Prosperous and Sustainable Future has been chosen. The International Conference Organizing committee, chaired by Murray Patterson delivered its evaluation of the proposals received with a recommendation to the ISAER Executive Council. A motion to approve holding the ISAER International Conference in Beijing in the summer of 2016 was accepted at the July 2014 meeting of the ISAER Executive Council, thereby accepting the proposal of the School of the Environment, Beijing Normal University University. Please go to the Accepted Proposal to see the details. More work will be done on the confernce design in the near future. |
| 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. |
Report on the Eighth Annual Meeting of ISAER
The revised By-laws were approved by a vote of 30 to 1 with
12.7% of the members voting. The new Executive Council has
been elected, please, go to the Members' Area
ElectionResults2015 to see the winners. Also, please go to the
Presidential Address page and read new President Yan
Maochao's closing address to the Society defines the
priorities during his presidency.
The revised By-laws were approved by a vote of 30 to 1 with
12.7% of the members voting. The new Executive Council has
been elected, please, go to the Members' Area
ElectionResults2015 to see the winners. Also, please go to the
Presidential Address page and read new President Yan
Maochao's closing address to the Society defines the
priorities during his presidency.
Short Course on Emergy taught in Venice, Italy a Success!
Dr. Mark Brown taught a short course in emergy theory and methods at the 2nd International School on
Emergy Accounting, Venice, Italy, 11-15 May 2015. The directirs of the School of Emergy Accounting are
Francesco Gonella - Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy and Sergio Ulgiati - Parthenope University, Naples,
Italy. We are waiting for a full report on the Course held in May of this year.
Dr. Mark Brown taught a short course in emergy theory and methods at the 2nd International School on
Emergy Accounting, Venice, Italy, 11-15 May 2015. The directirs of the School of Emergy Accounting are
Francesco Gonella - Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy and Sergio Ulgiati - Parthenope University, Naples,
Italy. We are waiting for a full report on the Course held in May of this year.
This site has not been maintained for the past 6 months as a consequence of the hand-off of Yahoo Small Business
to the new small business management company Aabaco. Compatibility of the new Aabaco system with Yahoo
SiteBuilder has been restored and so this site will have new material posted as of June 2, 2016.
Please, note that all material on this site has been reproduced on our new web site at www.emergysociety.com
along with some new material. The new site is now our primary site.
The biennial emergy research conference, Emergy Synthesis 9 was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville
FL, USA from Janaury 7 to 9, 2016. The conference was a one of the best ever in the words of Dr. Mark Brown.
The Second ISAER-sponsored International Conference to be held in 2016 and the first outside of Gainesville FL,
USA will be the first "World Summit on Environmental Accounting" to be held at Beijing Normal University, Beijing,
P.R. China from July 4 to 6, 2016. Beijing Normal University will be the host institution and Dr Zhifeng Yang the
Program Chair. This meeting will be co-sponsored by ISAER China Chapter and ISAER.
In addition, ISAER members contributed a session to the International Society for Ecological Modelling conference,
which was held from May 8 to 12, 2016 at Towson University, Maryland USA.
EcoSummit 2016 will be held at Le Corum in Montpellier, France from August 29 to September 1, 2016. ISAER
members Aurelie Wilfart and Oliver Le Corre will organize an ISAER sponsored session for EcoSummit 2016 entitled
"Emergy assessment of sustainability: How emergy accounting can help agro-ecosystems to address the needs of
agroecology".
ISAER plans to host a display table containing some of our materials manned by members to answer questions
about the Emergy Society. The details are currently being worked out.
to the new small business management company Aabaco. Compatibility of the new Aabaco system with Yahoo
SiteBuilder has been restored and so this site will have new material posted as of June 2, 2016.
Please, note that all material on this site has been reproduced on our new web site at www.emergysociety.com
along with some new material. The new site is now our primary site.
The biennial emergy research conference, Emergy Synthesis 9 was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville
FL, USA from Janaury 7 to 9, 2016. The conference was a one of the best ever in the words of Dr. Mark Brown.
The Second ISAER-sponsored International Conference to be held in 2016 and the first outside of Gainesville FL,
USA will be the first "World Summit on Environmental Accounting" to be held at Beijing Normal University, Beijing,
P.R. China from July 4 to 6, 2016. Beijing Normal University will be the host institution and Dr Zhifeng Yang the
Program Chair. This meeting will be co-sponsored by ISAER China Chapter and ISAER.
In addition, ISAER members contributed a session to the International Society for Ecological Modelling conference,
which was held from May 8 to 12, 2016 at Towson University, Maryland USA.
EcoSummit 2016 will be held at Le Corum in Montpellier, France from August 29 to September 1, 2016. ISAER
members Aurelie Wilfart and Oliver Le Corre will organize an ISAER sponsored session for EcoSummit 2016 entitled
"Emergy assessment of sustainability: How emergy accounting can help agro-ecosystems to address the needs of
agroecology".
ISAER plans to host a display table containing some of our materials manned by members to answer questions
about the Emergy Society. The details are currently being worked out.