… Rates of mental health concerns for children and adolescents are high across the United States … for children of color and low-income urban youth, who face multiple barriers to accessing nature and gaining treatment for mental health concerns. The land conservation community … can take to begin offering nature-based programing for America’s youth aimed at bringing the mental health benefits of the outdoors to new, diverse audiences, who may need …
… Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world has expanded dramatically … work with a sustainability-forward employer. Ourstudents will soon be at the helms of such impactful organizations, and it is incumbent on us to equip them with the knowledge, the …
… model and promotes the elimination of waste through the continual use of natural resources. This holistic framework allows companies to evaluate the environmental impact of their products from natural resource extraction to end-of-life product disposal. … and opportunities associated with each of these models. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Circularity Equity and Justice Fiber Based Packaging: Opportunities …
… -by Abhishri Aggarwal, Kate Logan, Namrita Kapur Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based SolutionsSustainable Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … holds great potential where philanthropy fallsshort—mobilizing the scale of financial resources needed to address the world’s pressing problems. According to the Global Impact …
… Through this research opportunity, strong theoretical contributions have been made … the driving forces of a sustainability characterised by individual and planetary flourishing in contrast to a sustainability characterised by survival. The investigators’ … der Haar/flickr 2227 Equity and Justice Shared Visions of Sustainability and the Resulting Impacts on Organizational Performance … Shared Visions of Sustainability and the Resulting …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. … heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making … Tobias von der Haar/flickr 2203 Equity and Justice Circularity Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Framing Effects on Inferences about Green Product Quality … Framing …
… This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the feasibility of designing and financing a … and takeaways from the energy and financial model we developed using Microsoft Excel. Our energy and financial model, published with this report, is built using the Connecticut … case study. It is designed to be easily adapted to analyze other projects. The model uses hourly energy demand and generation data as well as battery dispatch logic to calculate bill …
… The objective of this project was to use both the travel cost method and the contingent valuation method to … create economic incentives for private forest owners by drawing upon previously untapped sources of publicly derived funding. Project Outcomes Based on these findings, the … lands in northeast CT. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions Equity and Justice The Quiet Corner Woodland Partnership … The Quiet …
… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate … of cases to explore in full depth. A second stage entails the selection of two to four well-matched cases (for information on matched comparisonssee George and Bennett, 2004) … and federal policy makers, and academia. Interviews lasted, on average, 1.5 hours and yielded more than 500 pages of rich qualitative data. These interviews allowed the …
… SolarizeCT, which began in 2009, is designed to increase the installation of residential … interested in solarizing their community. Clean Energy Equity and Justice Solarize Your Community: An Evidence-Based Guide for Accelerating the Adoption of Residential Solar … Solarize Your Community: An Evidence-Based Guide for Accelerating the Adoption of Residential Solar …