10 Appropriate Indicators to Measure Green Growth in Industry
December 17, 2012 5 CommentsGreen Growth, Sustainable Growth, Green Economy – All of these concepts require decoupling. A decoupling, in a nutshell, that maintains economic growth while achieving material de-growth. Instead of consuming ever more resources to produce ever more profits (“traditional” growth), decoupling refers to the idea of consuming less material resources and still generating more profits (green growth). W...
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Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aqu ...
September 11, 2012 1 CommentLast week, in part one of this article, we ended with the tragedy of the commons and the question of whether overfishing is a logical consequence of human nature. Luckily, not all things are as bad as they seem. Let's get back to our effort to increase comprehension and scroll to page 18 of Frank Asche's report (Green Growth in Fisheries and Aquaculture Production and Trade). He seems quite confident there. [T]here is no doubt that aquaculture can be carried out in a sustainable manner, independent of the level of intensity. Therefore, the real issue with aquaculture and sustainability is whe...
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Green Ocean Hunters? The Environmental Effects of Fishing and Aqu ...
September 5, 2012 1 CommentShrimp farms destroy sensitive mangrove forest ecosystems, salmon escape from designated aquaculture spots and spread parasites, fish trawlers leave nothing but empty seas behind and even organic fish farming could be unsustainable due to dependence on fish meal from wild catch. When it comes to seafood, the message transmitted across mainstream media channels is devastating: there is simply nothing left we can eat responsibly, be it from the wild or aquaculture. Does that mean we all have to go vegetarian? Well, in many cases, the good news is that fish performs better than meat, when it come...
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Food Footprints: Subjective Consumer Perception vs. Profound LCA ...
November 1, 2011 5 CommentsToday is World Vegan Day. Vegans are people ethically very consequent. Even more consequent than vegetarians. Vegans don't eat products that derive from living beings - no cheese, no milk, no honey. Personally, i have a lot of respect for vegans, since they act by conviction. A vegan stands by what he or she believes in, since the vast majority of animal related food production fail to comply with ethically responsible conditions. Large scale factory farming and animal transport over large distances are not in keeping with the promise of the picturesque rustic agriculture of our grand mother's...
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Ecology's Step Child - We Need Water Footprints!
October 31, 2011 3 CommentsAssessing environmental effects of human activity is something we become more and more familiar with. If you consider yourself an eco-friendly person, granted that you have calculated your personal ecological footprint. You also try to buy local products and watch out for information on transport distances. More and more customers put pressure on companies, in order to receive detailed information on ecological impacts. On the supply side, an increasing number of environmentally responsible companies get into detail, giving an insight into product related climate effects by publishing carbon f...
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Celebrations, come on, let’s celebrate and have a good time. And ...
September 27, 2011 2 CommentsDo you know what day today is? Yes, it is google’s 13th birthday. But this is not what I want to write about. Today is Earth Overshoot Day, hooray! From now on to the end of the year humanity consumes resources that Mother Earth can theoretically not provide. In other words, today is something like the “Negative Sustainability Day”. So that’s all for this year! If mankind would take sustainability seriously we would have to stop consuming resources NOW for the rest of 2011. Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN) calculates the day from which on we consume resources on tick. To do ...
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"Just One Indicator, Please": PUMA's Environmental Profit and Los ...
September 19, 2011 1 CommentRecently, the sports brand PUMA released a preliminary version of their “unprecedented” environmental profit and loss statement which reveals no profits but a loss of 94.4m Euros. Complete Cradle To Gate Approach Where this figure comes from? Most likely from the desire to provide managers with one monetary figure on environmental impacts rather than several ecological ones. Together with their partnering organizations Trucost and PWC, PUMA analyzed the water and carbon footprints of their own operations and four supply chain tiers (cradle to gate approach). The ecological results measured i...
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Carbon Neutral Online Shopping – How Green are Mail Order Compani ...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
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Only 16.7% of Global Energy Consumption Is Renewable – Ways for I ...
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Four Fit-For-Future Bachelor Programs in Europe
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Food Footprints: Subjective Consumer Perception vs. Profound LCA ...
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A Truly Green Building Sector? Sustainable Housing Challenges in ...
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5 Clear-Cut Economic Benefits of Sustainability Reporting
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How to Recycle Phosphorus, the Most Least-Known Scarce Resource
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ISO 14051-Based Material Flow Cost Accounting in a Nutshell
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Here's another noteworthy "MDPI Sustainability"-article asse ...
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