Social & Technical Responsibility INTRODUCTION

to Save Environment for

Sustainable Development

About Pollution

Present status

Role of Environment
Vinod Kr. Verma
Assistant Professor Education
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT ENGINEERING COLLEGE, AJMER

EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING Air Pollution

Melting of Ice in
North and South
Pole.

All the Water
Drained to Sea.

Rise in Sea Level.

So, What is Effect?

TODAY’S PROBLEMS
Water Pollution

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 Natural Calamity - TSUNAMI TYPES OF POLLUTION
Every day, earth becomes more and more
polluted.

Air pollution fills our lungs with deadly

substances.

Water pollution is rapidly eradicating

what little freshwater we have left.

Land pollution is causing once-

once-fertile
lands to become little more than deserts

For Example Effects: 26 December 2004

Awareness about the following

Sustainable development and
issues are needed.
environmental sustainability
Definition for sustainable development :

Difference between sustainable
development and environmental “ Development that meets the needs of the
sustainability. present without compromising the ability of
future
generation to meet their own needs”

Unique definition for sustainable
The resource base is not inexhaustible

development

sustainable development is economic
development

Will depending on Science and Technology
Without environmental sustainability it is

impossible to achieve sustainable development.
alone deliver environmental sustainability?

Unique definition for sustainable

operational definition must be based on
development: the reduction in consumption of goods and
services by the affluent within and
An indicator is needed between nations.

for comparing the relative progress

made by different countries
The production and consumption must be
towards sustainable development at curbed to achieve even a modest degree
a given time or of sustainable development and
determined efforts must be made to
reduce consumption through formal

for measuring progress made by a education
given country or region over time.

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 Science, technology and environmental
sustainability Can science and technology deliver
Role of science and technology in delivering sustainable development
environmental sustainability:

impacts of science and technology

sustainable development and global
environmental sustainability achieved not only
with the application of science and technology
alone. Example : USA
turnout to be good or bad is determined
by their environmental impacts.

progress towards sustainable development is
dependent upon a fundamental change in
societies’ attitude to nature and the environment
economic development through
industrialization

to bring about this change of attitude is
education in moral and ethical philosophy. In the
young minds it is essential to reinforce the
environment-
environment-respecting moral values.
World Bank and International Monetary
Fund

Benefits of Science NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL

paying a high ‘price’ for it in terms of EDUCATION
environmental degradation
All major natural resources in the country
are in grave danger of irreparable
damage.

this has serious implications for future
A society cannot survive if its natural
generations. resources are rendered unfit for use by its
people.

science and technology can help the
The only hope of salvaging this grave
situation is by making the young aware
process of sustainable development in a that they need to proactively begin to
limited way but they cannot deliver them. protect the environment they will inherit.

Science and Technology can help in a
limited way but cannot deliver it.

NEED FOR ENVIRONMENTAL Essential components Of

EDUCATION (Contd.) The environmental education

The moral and ethical education for
changing people’s attitude

Alerting the public to the need to achieve
global sustainale development and the

To protect children living in polluted likely consequences of failing to do so.
regions, environmental education
represents a relevant means of prevention

Focusing the educational curricula for

It is need for the hour to propose the
global sustainable development by
environmental education with the
essential elements of moral philosophy. incorporating the know – how and skills
and also the moral imperatives.

For conceptual change

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 Curriculum development Criteria for curriculum
Reasons for including moral education in
development:
development:
Engineering Curricula: • The focus must be on reducing
consumption with a view to achieving

As future planners, designers, builders and sustainability. The content should be
decision makers , students shoulder special holistic, covering all essential aspects.
responsibility in protecting the integrity of nature
and the natural environment.
• The content should comprises two

Human beings are rational creatures who have an strategic elements:
innate need to rationalize all their actions and
thoughts .Moral philosophy provjdes this The ‘end-
‘end- of-
of- the pipe’
pipe’
rationale, and by doing so gives us our element
humanity. based on science and technology to
deal

Albert Einsteins statement “Science without
philosophy is just mechanics”. with pollution already produced.
The ‘ before-
before-the-
the-pipe’
pipe’
element
concerned with pollution prevention

MAJOR AREAS TO BE COVERED CURRICULUM

Curriculum units and materials have to
Air - acid rain, indoor air pollution, ozone, radon

Conservation - energy, environmental
be developed in five areas: stewardship, natural resources, pollution
1. Air Quality prevention

Ecosystems - ecology, endangered species,
2. Ecosystems & Biodiversity global warming, habitats, watersheds
Human Health - drinking water, fish advisories,
3. Energy Resources

indoor air, lead, ozone depletion, pesticides,
4. Land Use radon, smog

In Your Neighborhood - databases, local
5. Water Quality issues, maps

Waste & Recycling - garbage, household,
hazardous & solid waste, landfills, superfund
cleanups, trash

Water-
Water- drinking water, ecosystems, lakes,

IMPORTANCE OF WATER
RESOURCES

According to the latest census of India statistics,
Though children and youth in rural India are
only 38 percent of the 192 million households in physically closer to nature, they seldom have
India enjoy the privilege of grossly under-
under-priced access to natural resources to satisfy their basic
piped water supply. needs.

“Water is a resource which is much too free.

Under-
Under-pricing of this vital resource has ironically
For instance though they may live beside a river,
put it beyond the reach of the poor majority. it’s rare for rural youth to have experienced piped

A resource conscious society should water.
carefully calculate the cost — and price — of
its natural resources.
Instead river water is transported across

Since we haven’t done so, there’s a lot of hundreds of miles to cities. Continuous
pilferage and waste. mismanagement and waste of water resources

Water should be a costed resource, only then will and years of large-
large-scale deforestation has
we use and save it as a precious resource. transformed India from a once water-
water-rich society

Water management should receive top priority as into a water-
water-insecure nation.
environment education is introduced in schools
and colleges

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 The people below are taking care of
their home and car, but they are
doing many things that can damage
Management of waste
the environment, especially our
water.

Today’s status of Environmental

Education
Effective Handling of EE

While environment education is a compulsory
Mandating environment education as a boring
subject in schools, Children are just mugging study subject is the best way to kill it.
another subject — environment studies.

For example the prescribed curriculum won’t
Instead it should be introduced as a voluntary,
help a student in getting a mound of rubbish extra-
extra-curricular activity to arouse the interest
outside a house or school cleared. and awareness of students in green issues.

Students are being taught mere facts and figures.

We have to make our children to
Indeed environment education as a hands-
hands-on
extra-
extra-curricular activity rather than an academic
realise that they are part of the classroom subject is arousing growing
problem, and therefore they have enthusiasm across the country.
to be part of the solution
Enhancing research activities by providing
incentives

Understanding environmental
behavioural change through Creating Environmental Awareness
communication

Developing a ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ became
one of the tasks of environmental education
Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the
Environment (GLOBE)

The ‘responsible environmental behaviour’ is defined as “
the whole of actions of an individual within the society, that
(NASA), USA. Over 50,000 schools all over the
takes into account, in a conscious way, the perennial and
harmonious relationship between these actions and world, of which 86 are in India, are enrolled in
environment”. the GLOBE programme.
programme.

Communication is a way of approaching and explaining
A School in Lucknow,

Lucknow, they have set up a small
processes in society and it can be defined as “ the
exchange processes among the individual and group weather monitoring station in their school.
members of a given society”. Children use the station to maintain temperature
and cloud charts, measure rainfall, gather
weather-
weather-related information and feed it into the
GLOBE website. The data is then used to forecast
worldwide weather trends and to develop
environment protocols,”

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 Conclusion

Effective policy must be implemented to curb
consumption by the affluent
Future student generation must acquire knowledge
and skills in technologies and keep pace with rapid
advances in practically in all areas.

We need moral education to instill genuinely
environment respecting moral values in the
young student society.
The communication perspective opens the door to

Conventional educational methodology is no another kind of tools that environmental educators can
longer adequate for the real needs of tomorrow use in order to improve the educational practice.

Though there are definitional and implementation
Minds on experience is also needed with Hands on
flaws, environment NGOs and activists need to be experience.
given credit and accolades for creating a nation-
nation-
wide awareness of the crisis of environment
deterioration.

SAE International
Education For Life
• Headquartered in Warrendale,
Warrendale, PA with
Automotive Headquarters in Troy, MI
Education Through Life
• 501.c.3 not-
not-for-
for-profit foundation

• 128,000 members—
members— industry, government,
Education Throughout Life academia

• Share information and exchange ideas for
advancing engineering mobility

systems
Mahatma Gandhi
• Standards development, events, and technical
information and expertise used

in designing, building, maintaining, and operating
vehicles for use on land or

sea, in air or space

Overview SAE Priorities

• Priorities for 2011

• Globalization—
Globalization—sustainability issues are global

• Challenges for Auto Industry
• Expand influence of SAE standards

• Michigan Green Chemistry & SAE’s response
- Proactive regulatory approach (US and Global)

• Green Technology Steering Group scope
• Maintain and grow suite of SAE standards

•Develop mechanism for identifying standardization needs

• Examples of Green Chemistry Principles in for emerging
Automotive Sector
technologies

• Materials - Recycling/reuse
•Reach out to other stakeholders and engage them in
development process

• Waste
• Enhance interactions across SAE sectors: aerospace,

• Elements in a “Green Car Factor” auto,
and commercial vehicle

• Goal: global standards for environmental

sustainability in the mobility sector

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Environmental & Green Challenges SAE Proposed Actions for the
for the Mobility Industry Mobility Industry

Environmental issues are critical and global
Provide technical information and

• Concerns about “sustainable mobility” and feedback to address issues before
“green mobility products”
regulations are imposed

—what are they?
• Make the Mobility Sector part of the

• Green initiatives focus on fuel efficiency, but solution
should be more than that
• Facilitate the industry’s approach to be

• Difficult to commercialize new auto more environmentally responsive,
technologies yet cost-

cost-effective and time-
time-sensitive

• Individual companies active in sustainability
and the green arena
• Assure the Mobility Sector is recognized
as a leader for new, green and

• Challenges for industry consensus and path
forward
sustainable technology

Transportation Auto Industry Trends

• Almost 20 percent of the world's total delivered energy is used


in the
• Lightweight

transportation sector1

• Transportation alone accounts for more than 50 percent of world
world
• Low/zero emissions
consumption

of liquid fuels1
• Alternative propulsion systems
• 14.3% of greenhouse gases worldwide originate from the


transportation sector
• Reduced vehicle energy consumption

making it the third largest emission source2

• In the US alone:
• Weight reduction to improve fuel

• Transportation is responsible for 2/3 of our petroleum usage1 economy

• On-
On-Road vehicles responsible for ~80% of transportation
petroleum usage1
• Renewable/sustainable

1US Energy Information Administration

2World Resources Institute
• Recyclable

Green Chemistry in Michigan as a

Automotive Recycling Industry Catalyst
for Action in the Auto Sector
• The automobile is the world’s most recycled
consumer product
• 2006 Michigan Executive Directive

• In North America, 95% of retired autos are

• 2008 Action Plan for Michigan Green Chemistry
processed for recycling every year Research, Development,

and Education

• At least 86% of a car’s material content is
recycled, reused and recovered
• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality,
with support from the

• Recycling vehicles provides enough steel to

Michigan Green Chemistry Roundtable, awarded
produce almost 13 million new autos grant for a workshop to

and saves ~85 million barrels of oil annually
SAE in 2009

• Products expected to last more than 15 years
• Feasibility Study for Establishing a Center for
Green Innovation

& Technology Transfer for the Automotive
Industry in Michigan

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 Work in Progress
Green Technology Steering Group

To serve as a guiding body for consensus
• SAE J2960–
J2960– “Implementation of Green

standards development for environmental Chemistry and

sustainability issues in the automotive sector:
Engineering within the Automotive Sector” under

"Meeting the needs of the present generation

without compromising the ability of future

development

generations to meet their needs.”
• SAE J2965 – “Terminology and Definitions for

Defining concept of green: related to the size of the Green

environmental footprint of a product, i.e. the
Innovation and Sustainable Practices in the

degree to which a product has a negative Automotive

impact on human health and ecosystems
Industry” under development

Topics for consideration include materials, energy,
• Inventory of Green Chemistry & Engineering

water, waste, recycling and reuse, and Case Studies

manufacturing practices
from EPA Awards

Examples of Green Chemistry & Example of Green Chemistry &

Engineering Engineering
Projects in the Auto Sector Projects in the Auto Sector-
Sector-2

Prevent Waste
Use Renewable Feedstocks

• Landfill: since 2005, 78 of 156 global manufacturing as
• Biomaterials in Autos
well as 14 nonmanufacturing
• Biopolymers

operations are landfill free at GM
• Bio based resins: corn, castor beans, sugar cane

• Waste: since 2000, 43% decrease in waste, with 91% of
• Soy, soy oil: foams, thermoset resins, fillers
all waste recycled
• Fillers and Reinforcements

at GM
• Natural Fibers: hemp switch grass, flax, wheat straw,

Design Less Hazardous Syntheses wood, kenaf,
kenaf,

• PPG’S Green Logic® Paint Detackifier:
Detackifier: replaces
coconut
petroleum-
petroleum-based
• One example of many products on the market: Biofoam

and melamine-
melamine-formaldehyde products. soy seats

• Zircobond Pretreatment: eliminates chrome, zinc, nickel,
• In over 2 million Ford vehicles
manganese,
• In GM’s Chevy Volt, and

• and phosphate from the metal pretreatment process
• In Nissan’s Leaf

Elements in a “Green Car Factor”

for Best Practices or Standards
Sustainable Mobility

Sustainable Mobility

• Direct vehicle emissions
“Sustainable mobility means delivering safe, energy-
energy-efficient

• Fuel/energy source/environmental impact products that

• Biofuels
meet our customers’ needs while using the earth’s resources

• Low carbon (e.g., natural gas) responsibly,

• Environmentally friendly charging sources
minimizing environmental impacts, relying on renewable energy,
and

• Materials
responding to differing community needs for transportation, and

• Components: structure, panels, seats, electronics, power-
power-train, at the
tires
same time fulfilling our fundamental role in driving world

• Service: refrigerants, coolants, lubricants, hydraulics economies.

• Impact on cabin air quality (chemical releases)
…It depends on collaboration, automakers working with

• Manufacturing processes government,

• Waste produced
energy providers and consumers to advance sustainable mobility

• Resources (water, energy) consumed through a

• Recyclability/disposability
Recyclability/disposability
comprehensive integrated approach”

Auto Alliance,

Reinventing the Automobile 2011

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 Sustainable Mobility Lessons Learned and Future Steps

“Sustainable mobility means delivering safe, energy-
energy-efficient
• Sustainability issues are cross-
cross-cutting, generally not
products that required by regulation or law,

meet our customers’ needs while using the earth’s resources
and not focused in discrete technical departments in
responsibly, companies

minimizing environmental impacts, relying on renewable energy,
and
• Companies address sustainability differently

responding to differing community needs for transportation, and
• No “silver bullet”
at the
We need:

same time fulfilling our fundamental role in driving world
• General-
General-high level industry support to integrate these
economies. efforts across departments;

…It depends on collaboration, automakers working with
government,
• Collaboration and partnerships;

energy providers and consumers to advance sustainable mobility
• Process to identify opportunities to advance sustainability
through a across the industry;

comprehensive integrated approach”
• A few industry leaders in sustainability dedicated to the

Auto Alliance, effort.

Reinventing the Automobile 2011

Conclusion

SAE is providing a forum through the
Green Technology

Steering Group to address these
issues and develop a THANK YOU

framework and strategy for global
standards for

environmental sustainability in the
mobility sector.