Volume 4 | Issue 1 | Spring 2008

About the Author

Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek is a physicochemist who has been responsible for administering the federal environmental research program in Germany and for developing the Ger-man Chemical Act. He advanced the concept of Factor 10 dematerialization of the economy for reaching economic and ecological sustainability. Schmidt-Bleek also advises the European Commission on sustainable development and has published some twenty books on eco-economic issues. He is founding president of the Factor 10 Institute (http://www.factor10-institute.org) and can be reached at Factor 10 Institute, La Rabassière Carrère des Bravengues, F 83660 Carnoules, France.