Announcements
Watch Now! Border Chocolate – A Documentary on used vehicle flows and the emerging challenge of battery waste
07 Aug 2025
Border Chocolate is a 15-minute documentary exploring the cross-border flow of used vehicles from the United States to Mexico. Based on fieldwork conducted during graduate research at the UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, the film inve...
ISIE and JIE Awards 2024 – Celebrating Excellence in Industrial Ecology
28 Jul 2025
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 ISIE and JIE Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements and impactful contributions in the field of industrial ecology. Congratulations to all awardees!
🔹 The Society PrizeThe ISIE’s h...
Dates for 2026 ISIE-SEM conference in Cambridge, UK
10 Jul 2025 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
Further to our previous announcement that the 2026 ISIE-SEM conference will be taking place next year at the University of Cambridge, we are pleased to invite you to save the date:
6–8 July 2026 Cambridge, UK
Further details and the ca...
Can a small island be sustainable?
08 Jul 2025
Watch the trailer of the documentary “Metabolism of Islands” produced and funded by International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), coming soon.
Sustainable Urban Systems section social gathering @ISIE2025 Singapore
29 Jun 2025 in
Sustainable Urban Systems (Urban systems)
Dear all,
The Sustainable Urban Systems section is hosting a social gathering meeting at the ISIE 2025 Conference. Time and venue details are below:
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 6:00pm - 7:30pm (Singapore time)
Venue: Dance Studio, Level 1
&nb...
Public Policy Section resources are live!
29 Jun 2025 in
Public Policy (Policy)
To inspire policy engagement and research, we the policy section Board curate works on the science-policy interface of industrial ecology. We hope the works make policy more tractable for industrial ecology and vice versa. Suggest wor...
Introducing the Public Policy Section of ISIE
20 Jun 2025
We are excited to announce the formation of the new Public Policy Section under the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)!
This new section aims to strengthen the bridge between industrial ecology research and real-wo...
Introducing SkiLLS: Intense-Online-Weekend Training Programmmes
17 Jun 2025 in
Students (Students)
SkiLLS (Skilling, Learning and Leveraging on Saturday) is a unique programme that offers training on valuable, application-based, and relevant skills via online sessions by experts on a Saturday or and Sunday. It is a rigorous, intensive and impac...
Online Session of the 18th Industrial Symbiosis Research Symposium at ISIE 2025 Singapore
We are pleased to announce that we are hosting the online session of the 18th ISRS simultaneously with the in-person event on June 30, 2025.
You are warmly invited to join us virtually. Please confirm your participation by filling out the registr...
ISIE Writing Competition 2025 “Bring Industrial Ecology to Life!” 🌍
08 May 2025 in
Students (Students)
Dear ISIE community,
We’re excited to announce the launch of the ISIE Writing Competition 2025, a unique initiative aimed at creating engaging, high-quality content for a new youth-facing educational website on industrial ecology.
We call ...
6th Austrian National Resource Forum (in German language) on 27 and 28 May 2025
08 May 2025 in
Public Policy (Policy)
The "Sixth (Austrian) National Resource Forum" will be hold online on 27 and 28 May 2025 (language of the forum is German, participation is free of charge).
You can register for this event on RingCentral Events:
https://events.ringcentral...
Industrial Ecology Data Commons (IEDC) - Critical Mass Sprint 2025
14 Apr 2025 in
Socio-Economic Metabolism (Metabolism)
2025 is the year when we move the industrial ecology data commons prototype, launched in 2018, into a functional and helpful data archiving and retrieval tool for the entire industrial ecology community!
With the help of the IEF team and the CI...