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 kn...
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"Everybody Should do Their Share" - The Long Road to Sustainabili ...
March 17, 2012 1 Commentknowtheflow: Prof. Dr. Inci Gökmen, you offer a course named "Sustainable Living and Green Chemistry" at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Prof. Dr. Inci Gökmen: Yes, I just started, this semester. Does it provoke a positive response? Yes, I think so. First, I started with a discussion on the "limits to growth". I guess everybody knows that there are limits in this world. We watched the movie "The Story of Stuff" with my students in class and I tried to get some feedback from them. The students said "yeah, the movie is presenting all the problems, but it is not proposing a...
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The Path to a Green Economy - Lessons From Germany
February 12, 2012 4 CommentsWhat green economy deals with is the idea of running our businesses in a sustainable way. All of them. All of us. Running a business in a sustainable way means that, while doing business, you preserve the basis of your business. One business may be based on a talent, another one on an idea, a third one on luck. There are capital intense businesses, risky businesses and there is dad's business. What they all have in common, every single one of them, is they all require a certain state of affairs to run. I don't refer to the classic triangle of land, labor and capital here - I stretch the point ...
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Four Fit-For-Future Bachelor Programs in Europe
January 28, 2012 5 CommentsRemember the time when you struggled to find the right program of study? Or have you just finished high school recently and are now searching for a university career that suits you? The task before you seems almost beyond your capacities? Calm down. Here are four bachelor degrees that matter. On the one hand, you are right. Prospective students have never been confronted with such a large variety of study programs as they are today. Scientific and business communities have reached a degree of specialization never seen before. On the other hand, it has never been as easy as it is today to mo...
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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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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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