Who's Happier – The Proactive Lohas or the Spontaneous Hedonist?
April 9, 2013The perception that pro-environmental behaviour has negative effects on well-being has made it difficult to make big and concrete steps towards [sustainability] transition. But is this perception accurate? Ask three researchers from the Dutch University of Groningen. In a review published in the last MDPI journal of sustainability, Leonie Venhoeven, Jan Bolderdijk and Linda Steg explored whethe...
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The Truth About the Dragon: China's Future is Inevitably Green
April 3, 2013 1 CommentWhat if every person in India drove a car? What if all Chinese were to live in their own 3-bedroom house? At the sight of a prospering global economy, many people's trust in the future has been profoundly undermined, especially in the west. Unaware of the ethical paradox, this view grants a wasteful living standard only to the citizens of well-established economies. The old, bipolar world order knew only two spheres of development: The western NATO-states on the one hand and the eastern USSR on the other. Back then, it was only these two spheres that caused large scale-pollution, and this was ...
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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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4 Alternatives to Waste Disposal - Increasing Your SMB's Resource ...
October 10, 2011 1 CommentIt is no secret, that the Earth's resource base is on a declining track. In the 1970s, the Club of Rome started to rivet public attention towards "natural resource restrictions" - we all remember the legendary "limits to growth" (also see its 30-year update [PDF]), a corner stone of sustainable development. Some of the well-established industrialized countries have become a little greener since then. However, in the course of the last 20 years, a number of emerging economies joined us in their hunger for raw materials. As a consequence, we face an increase of resource scarcity. Economically s...
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Life Cycle Management 2011 - Personal Field Report
September 6, 2011 4 CommentsLast week I was at the LCM 2011 in Berlin – the biggest conference of its kind, with nearly 600 attendees. For sure, Life Cycle Management has great importance for today’s business. But taking a closer look at the attendance list clearly shows: it is still a topic driven and influenced by the academic sector. The idea of a product lifecycle is nothing new. It was in the late sixties, when Raymond Vernon established the lifecycle thinking of a product, from the development to degeneration. What has changed since then is the understanding of the life cycle and, especially in the last few year...
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Biomass Lagging Behind Prospering Wind and Solar Markets
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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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