Sustainable Development

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Step 3: Developing Strategies - Barriers

Step 3: Developing Strategies – Barriers

Convenience: Making it Easy to Act

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

If the behavior is unpleasant or time-consuming, for example, no matter how well you address internal barriers your community-based social marketing strategy will be unsuccessful. The first step … 9 $0.90 Add
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Step 4: Piloting

Step 4: Piloting

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Think of a pilot as a “test run,” an opportunity to work out the bugs before committing to carrying out a strategy broadly. As noted in the chapters on developing strategies, the … 7 $0.70 Add
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Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation

Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

When a pilot project has demonstrated that a behavioral change can be brought about cost-effectively, it is time to broadly implement the strategy. Prior to broad-scale implementation, collect … 3 $0.30 Add
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Straw and Other Fibers: A Second Harvest

Straw and Other Fibers: A Second Harvest

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter examines the use of "little trees," i.e., the stalks of straw that support seed crops. ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Sustainability—As We Know It—Is Not Sustainable
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Sustainability—As We Know It—Is Not Sustainable

From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

In this chapter, Broby Eckert, examines the sustainability demand revolution of the early 2020s, where consumer pull drives new markets and ecosystems at scale. 20 $2.00 Add
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Sustainable Business Education: Upskilling Youth in Developing Economies
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Sustainable Business Education: Upskilling Youth in Developing Economies

From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

In this chapter, Merali, examines how artificial intelligence and data analytics can close the green-skills gap in developing economies across South Asia, the Gulf Cooperation Council states, and … 20 $2.00 Add
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Sustainable Business Strategy
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Sustainable Business Strategy

From: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

In this chapter, Kotler and Hasan examine how sustainability has become a central pillar of business strategy. They explore the Triple Bottom Line, ESG integration, and the Shared Value concept … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Technology and Localization: Trends at Play

Technology and Localization: Trends at Play

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. 9 $0.90 Add
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Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

From: Dry Run

In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific … 20 $2.00 Add
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The $100 Trillion Question

The $100 Trillion Question

From: Clean Money Revolution

There are competing trends. Decay and chaos on one hand, integration and regeneration on the other. As $100 trillion changes hands in the next twenty years, the question is, which future wins? … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Africville Experience: Lessons for the Future
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The Africville Experience: Lessons for the Future

From: The Spirit of Africville

In this chapter, Stephen Kimber describes the resilience of former Africville residents and how the community fought to stay connected after relocation by organizing Africville reunions. He also … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies

The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies

From: Techno-Fix

The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies suggests specific environmental and social design criteria for new technologies, the importance of the … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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The Economic System--How Does it Work?

The Economic System–How Does it Work?

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author discusses economic theory through various historical thinkers, with a focus on free markets. 30 $3.00 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

A Letter From the Future

From: Peak Everything

Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced … 12 $1.20 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking Ourselves to Extinction

From: Peak Everything

Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … 14 $1.40 Add
The New Carbon Architecture

The New Carbon Architecture

Buiding to Cool the Climate

"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when … 186 View