… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required … What is interesting about renewable energy in general and offshore wind in particular is that, across settings, the issues that prevent market emergence are relatively simple and well understood; the stakeholder …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. The investigators found that … that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making the product better performing. Use … the product plays an import role in consumers’ evaluations. In particular, consumers are less likely to purchase a green product when they perceive that the company intentionally …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to estimate Southern New England residents’ … landowners, as well as forest industry and conservation professionals. The results indicate that residents attribute monetary value to nonmarket forest goods and services. The present … Strategies for Land Conservation, and through the Berkley Scholars program, are building upon this research. In addition, regional policymakers, water authorities, and …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these practices into one space creates an efficient and sustainable land-use system that benefits farmers, solar developers, rural communities, and the earth itself. This … energy blends complementary land uses and eliminates the false “food or energy” dichotomy that has traditionally dominated discussions about solar-agricultural land use. People often …
… the benefits a product provides to you, does it matter to you whether many others also use that product? For many products, the answer is yes. This simple idea that there are additional benefits to you if everyone else is using the same product is … ‘connected’ to the network, the benefits increase. More precisely, anytime there is a way that people are connected—whether it is a physical connection or not—the network effect is …
… the feasibility of designing and financing a Green Resilience Hub (GRH). GRHs are physical facilities equipped with clean energy technologies and strategically located to offer vital … insights to developers and investors interested in constructing resilient infrastructure that can provide essential community services–even during disruptions to the electrical … models for GRHs. We then examine financing options, including an outline of relevant costs and revenues and an analysis of federal tax incentives. Finally, we present the key …
… the United States and potentially rising as, simultaneously, young people are spending less time outdoors than ever before. These trends are especially pronounced for children of … donors, and assist in managing and protecting land in perpetuity. Based on the hypothesis that land trusts, land managers, and parks professionals could be partners in the effort to … with leaders from existing programs. We end with a menu of potential pilot actions that organizations can take to begin offering nature-based programing for America’s youth …
… vision (or envisioning) from projections, scenarios, or forecasts in a way that provides access to crafting autonomous motivation for sustainability and … deep or transformational learning and creative, integrative or interdisciplinary solutions that span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data … Florida. The pitfalls and pathways are being expanded into an educational curriculum that was experimentally used at the University of Michigan and is being illustrated through …
… (GIIN) total global impact investing assets in 2018 grew more than 50% from 2017. Yet, that growth is tiny relative to the overall investing marketplace—comprising only 4% of … and only 1% of total US assets under management.1 Furthermore, there is evidence to suggest that assets committed for impact investment are largely sitting on the sidelines. For … considering what we know about the enormous need and urgency for those resources. Building upon preliminary research presented by Namrita Kapur of Growald Family Fund during …
… challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have deleterious effects that actually reduce the long-run usability of the land. More sustainable agricultural … incentives received by the extension agents, and the type of farmer (lead, peer, or none) that the extension agent was supposed to work with. A midline survey was conducted with all … of connections overall, and those concentrated in an area — to increase the likelihood that one person will know several seed farmers. This next step involved training the …