… span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data collection with Patagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviews with our second study participant, … Stone Brewery. The quantitative assessment is scheduled to follow the qualitative analysis. Project Outcomes The exploration of self-determination theory within the theoretical development of this research led to the identification of several pitfalls and pathways …
… commitments. The circular economy represents one of the biggest environmental and economic opportunities through which companies can lower their environmental footprint and … resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, particularly wrapped … We evaluate the four circular strategies and address the challenges and opportunities associatedwith each of these models. Thriving Food Systems and Nature Based Solutions …
… effects on human health, infrastructure, energy, agriculture, fisheries, sea levels, natural ecosystems, and more. For many, the consequences have felt distant and theoretical — … hurricanes , and deadly heatwaves — among a litany of other environmental, social, and economic disasters — have changed this. Following the US’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on November 4, it is up to corporations to take direct …
… make. Garcia is a member of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3), a group charged with creating a comprehensive climate strategy for the State of Connecticut. As of September … Day 2015 to examine the effectiveness of existing policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify new strategies. Connecticut’s government had already set a target … have to take into account Connecticut’s changing energy profile. Between 1996 and 2015, naturalgas largely replaced the dirtier fossil fuels coal and oil for electricity …
… methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming households. The survey focused on the socioeconomic characteristics of the households as well as their farming practices and production … the investigator is in the process of entering, cleaning, and conducting a preliminary analysis of the data. Project Outcomes An additional $50,000 was also received from the …
… 2263 7453 Key Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy on Public Lands … Key Economic Benefits of Renewable … attention is now focused on confronting the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the tragic loss of life, there are unprecedented threats to the health and livelihoods … we will choose to look forward and invest in solutions such as responsible renewable energy development, rather than doubling down on the fossil fuel framework of the past. Along with …
… meant diesels. The company designed, manufactured, distributed, and serviced diesel and naturalgas engines, for transportation, construction, and power generation. In addition to the … it manufactured components, including filters, turbochargers, and aftertreatment, used with its own engines and with the systems of other manufacturers. The components and engines …
… government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meant that the national oil company PEMEX had to find ways … at the pump. No bids came in under PEMEX's maximum. Considering (1) the constraints in the economics of ethanol for fuel production, (2) the potential market opportunities for PEMEX, …
… Renewable Thermal Technologies (RTT), especially heat pumps paired with solar, have the potential to dramatically decrease energy consumption and by extension … much air-source heat pumps and ground-source heat pumps could lower both electricity and naturalgas consumption and carbon emissions. Then, we investigated how much solar will be needed to …
… began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2 and other gasses in the atmosphere to the general warming of the earth’s climate, a phenomenon dubbed … had started looking at the greenhouse effect in the mid-1980s. The wide-ranging discussions within GM had led to an ambitious program to improve the efficiency of internal combustion … the mounting scientific evidence concerning global warming and to warn of the catastrophic economic consequences from capping greenhouse gases. The GCC’s lobbying efforts had paid off …