Smart Green World

Author : Steffen Lange,Tilman Santarius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000061628

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Smart Green World? by Steffen Lange,Tilman Santarius Pdf

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist lifestyle needs to be radically transformed if society is to overcome the challenges humanity is facing on a finite planet. Can the much-discussed disruption potential of digitalization be harnessed for this purpose? Smart Green World? provides guiding principles for a sustainable digital society and develops numerous hands-on proposals for how digitalization can be shaped to become a driving force for social transformation. For instance, the authors explain why more digitalization is needed to realize the transition towards 100% renewable energy and show how this can be achieved without sacrificing privacy. They analyze how the information revolution can transform consumption patterns, mobility habits and industry structures – instead of fostering the consumption of unneeded stuff due to personalized commercials and the acceleration of life. The authors reveal how Artificial Intelligence and the Industrial Internet of Things pose novel environmental challenges and contribute to a polarization of income; but they also demonstrate how the internet can be restored to its status as a commons, with users taking priority and society at large reaping the benefits of technological change in a most democratic way. Providing a comprehensive and practical assessment of both social and environmental opportunities and challenges of digitalization, Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability will be of great interest to all those studying the complex interrelationship of the twenty-first-century megatrends of digitalization and decarbonization.

Author : Woodrow Clark II,Grant Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317054191

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Smart Green Cities by Woodrow Clark II,Grant Cooke Pdf

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs - sustainable development, communications, energy, water, waste, and transportation to develop guidelines, processes and best practices. City leaders are key to mitigating climate change who must plan, design and implement solutions. Smart Green Cities (SGC) offers a global perspective that includes implementing the Green Industrial Revolution the title of their last book. SGC discusses innovative emerging technologies, and the new economics paradigm that move beyond the out-dated neo-classical economics. The authors present examples from around the world including Europe, the U.S, China and the Middle East, which discuss the best green technologies from renewable energy power generation to smart on-site grid development. The extraordinary shift from a rural to an urban world is described; national plans are analyzed; so that future cities will be designed, built and implemented now - not 50 years from now. The struggle for the planet’s survival is being waged by the world’s cities. Clark and Cooke argue that cities are the key to mitigating climate change and reducing toxic greenhouse gas emissions. SGC introduces sustainable technologies; discusses the economics for implementing the solutions; and offers numerous examples to serve as pathways for cities to become smart, green, and thus carbon neutral.

Author : Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171885551

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Paths to a Green World The Political Economy of the Global Environment by Jennifer Clapp And Peter Dauvergne Pdf

Author : Daniel C. Esty,Andrew Winston
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470393741

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Green to Gold by Daniel C. Esty,Andrew Winston Pdf

From the Publishers Weekly review: "Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such as Wal-Mart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good, and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations, mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste "take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of (organic) food for thought. "

Author : Abhas Bhardwaj
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788179935798

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Why Should I Save Energy? by Abhas Bhardwaj Pdf

Did you know that energy consumption by humans has increased by at least 30,000 times in the last 5000 years? In Delhi alone, there are over 80,000 trucks that run on the city roads every night. They emit un-burnt fossil fuels from their exhausts. Isn’t it terrifying that over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year? Why Should I Save Energy? is a comprehensive book that will introduce children to different forms of energy, history of fossil fuels, great scientists and their inventions, and more importantly, to the problems our planet faces with depletion of natural resources. Filled with eye-opening facts, beautiful pictures, multiple activities, and a quiz that helps reinforce learning; this book is the perfect guide to help you become an energy saver. Table of Contents • Energy Here, Today, Tomorrow, and Forever • Made Yesterday, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? • Effects of Pollution on Our Environment • History of Fossil Fuels • Save Energy, Save the Future • Smog • Climate Change Calamity • The Planet Needs You To Change • Recycling to Save Energy • Exploring Alternate Renewable Sources of Energy • Activity 1 • Activity 2 • Activity 3 • Quiz • Glossary Other books in this series: Why Should I Eat Healthy: A-Z of Food and Nutrition Guide (ISBN: 9789386530035) Why Should I Protect Nature?: A smart kid’s guide to a green world (ISBN: 9788179936627) Why Should I Recycle? (A Smart kid's guide to a green world) (ISBN: 9788179934500) Why Should I Save Water? (A Smart kid's guide to a green world) (ISBN: 9788179933695)

Author : Shweta Sinha
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788179933695

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Why Should I Save Water? by Shweta Sinha Pdf

Trash, oil spills, and climate change – these are only few of water’s troubles. Our drinking water supplies are shrinking, even as we continue to use more and more. We waste water and dump our garbage into rivers and oceans without giving it a thought. Do you know India may run out of drinking water in 25 years? Are you ready to take action? Every small step you take makes a difference. Why Should I Save Water? helps you understand the miracles of water. It teaches you the importance of saving water and helps you with ideas to do your bit towards conserving our precious resource – Water

Author : Solanki, Arun,Nayyar, Anand
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781522597568

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Green Building Management and Smart Automation by Solanki, Arun,Nayyar, Anand Pdf

Throughout the world, there is an increasing demand on diminishing natural resources in the industrial, transport, commercial, and residential sectors. Of these, the residential sector uses the most energy on such needs as lighting, water heating, air conditioning, space heating, and refrigeration. This sector alone consumes one-third of the total primary energy resources available. By using green building and smart automation techniques, this demand for energy resources can be lowered. Green Building Management and Smart Automation is an essential scholarly publication that provides an in-depth analysis of design technologies for green building and highlights the smart automation technologies that help in energy conservation, along with various performance metrics that are necessary to facilitate a building to be known as a “Green Smart Building.” Featuring a range of topics such as environmental quality, energy management, and big data analytics, this book is ideal for researchers, engineers, policymakers, government officials, architects, and students.

Author : Geeta Dayal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441106414

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Brian Eno's Another Green World by Geeta Dayal Pdf

The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio, over a scant few months in the summer of 1975. The album was a proof of concept for Eno's budding ideas of "the studio as musical instrument," and a signpost for a bold new way of thinking about music. In this book, Geeta Dayal unravels Another Green World's abundant mysteries, venturing into its dense thickets of sound. How was an album this cohesive and refined formed in such a seemingly ad hoc way? How were electronics and layers of synthetic treatments used to create an album so redolent of the natural world? How did a deck of cards figure into all of this? Here, through interviews and archival research, she unearths the strange story of how Another Green World formed the link to Eno's future -- foreshadowing his metamorphosis from unlikely glam rocker to sonic painter and producer.

Author : Aanchal Broca Kumar
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788179934500

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Why Should I Recycle? (A Smart kid's guide to a green world) by Aanchal Broca Kumar Pdf

Do you know that the amount of waste generated everyday on Earth, in cities alone, is enough to fi ll a fl eet of trucks covering 5,000 kilometres? We have been creating and dumping waste into the environment for far too long. Well, all this waste is destroying the environment and the worldwe live in. The time has come when we must sit up and make amends. Small and consistent efforts will go a long way in dealing with this mounting issue. Why Should I Recycle? helps us understand the principle of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle to ensure that we play our part in making the world a cleaner, healthier, and better place.

Author : E. Williams
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814436141

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Green Giants by E. Williams Pdf

What do Brazil’s top beauty brand, America’s second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world’s third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions? They are doing it all while holding to their convictions of implementing sustainable principles that help consumers live better lives. But they aren’t the only ones. Green Giants examines nine companies--including Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, Tesla, General Electric, and more--who have established the blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow. Author Freya Williams, an early pioneer of the modern sustainable business movement, discovered six factors responsible for the overwhelming success of these nine socially responsible companies: The Iconoclastic Leader Disruptive Innovation A Higher Purpose Built In, Not Bolted On Mainstream Appeal New Behavioral Contract Packed with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples, Green Giants serves as your blueprint for merging wild profitability with social responsibility.

Author : Woodrow Clark II,Grant Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317054184

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Smart Green Cities by Woodrow Clark II,Grant Cooke Pdf

Smart Green Cities: is a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W. Clark II and Grant Cooke have produced a book that is both practical and visionary. They have examined the infrastructure needs - sustainable development, communications, energy, water, waste, and transportation to develop guidelines, processes and best practices. City leaders are key to mitigating climate change who must plan, design and implement solutions. Smart Green Cities (SGC) offers a global perspective that includes implementing the Green Industrial Revolution the title of their last book. SGC discusses innovative emerging technologies, and the new economics paradigm that move beyond the out-dated neo-classical economics. The authors present examples from around the world including Europe, the U.S, China and the Middle East, which discuss the best green technologies from renewable energy power generation to smart on-site grid development. The extraordinary shift from a rural to an urban world is described; national plans are analyzed; so that future cities will be designed, built and implemented now - not 50 years from now. The struggle for the planet’s survival is being waged by the world’s cities. Clark and Cooke argue that cities are the key to mitigating climate change and reducing toxic greenhouse gas emissions. SGC introduces sustainable technologies; discusses the economics for implementing the solutions; and offers numerous examples to serve as pathways for cities to become smart, green, and thus carbon neutral.

Author : Jonathan Estes
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0470387793

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Smart Green by Jonathan Estes Pdf

"Do you think going green will give you a competitive advantage, even save you money? Do you think your customers are more likely to buy if you are green? Do you want to do better by the environment and your community? If so, you are not alone. Many feel the need to go green. Jonathan Estes in Smart Green turns this need into value and lays out the steps for going green.?Read it and get ahead of your competition and the green tsunami sweeping the country." —Frank Phoenix, PE, LEED-AP, Partner, Greenbridge Developments, LLC "Estes's book articulates the opportunities, challenges, and trends of the blossoming conscious consumer movement using insightful research to make the case for growing a green business. His compendium examines and dissects our cultural shift in which a handful of people are optimists, many are ambivalent, and everyone is a skeptic." —David Lubensky, President, Bagatto, Inc. "Smart Green is a very practical guide for getting started with greening your company. Estes has taken the principles of business planning and applied them to a very complex subject. Worth the read." —Michael Knupp, former CEO, The RETEC Group, and former member, World Business Council for Sustainable Development "Estes's Smart Green is a great resource for small to mid-size enterprises that want to make measurable improvement in performance and align themselves with the global green wave. From strategic planning to practical how-to examples, Estes demonstrates how we can go green and make some too." —Aaron Nelson, IOM, President and CEO, Chapel Hill-Carrboro (NC) Chamber of Commerce, and Executive Director, Foundation for a Sustainable Community

Author : Gareth Kane
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351276023

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Green Jujitsu by Gareth Kane Pdf

Business has recently woken up to the need to address environmental sustainability in a meaningful way. No longer is it sufficient to have an environmental policy or environmental management system – substantial changes to business practice are required. Culture change is widely regarded as the most vital and the most difficult element of this paradigm shift. The standard methods of "switch it off" stickers, awareness presentations and proclamations from the top have proved incapable of delivering the shift in attitudes required. Green Jujitsu is a completely different way of looking at culture change for environmental sustainability. Instead of trying to correct your colleagues’ perceived "weaknesses", it focuses instead on playing to their strengths to get them truly interested and engaged. This principle is applied to the "elephant model" of culture change: providing clear guidance, inspiring people emotionally and altering the working environment. These techniques are illustrated with case studies from the author’s own experience of facilitating culture change on the front line in some of the world’s leading organizations.

Author : Andrew S. Winston
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781422135402

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Green Recovery by Andrew S. Winston Pdf

When the economy turns rough, many companies sideline their green business initiatives. That's a big mistake. In Green Recovery, Andrew Winston shows that no company can afford to wait for the downturn to ease before going green. Green initiatives ratchet up your company's resource efficiency, creativity, and employee motivation. They save energy, waste, and money, preserving precious capital-and give precise focus to your innovation efforts and strategic priorities. Part manifesto and part how-to guide, this concise and engaging book provides a road map for using green initiatives to deliver short-term gains and position your company for long-term strategic growth. You'll discover how to: -Get lean: Amp up your energy and resource efficiency to survive tough times -Get smart: Use environmental data about products and supply chains for competitive advantage -Get creative: Rejuvenate your innovation efforts by asking heretical questions such as "How might we operate with no fossil fuels?" -Get going: Engage and excite employees to solve the company's, the customer's, and the world's environmental challenges Green Recovery is your guide to establishing your competitive positioning in difficult times and emerging even stronger into a vastly changed economy.

Author : Chinmay Chakraborty
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030732950

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Green Technological Innovation for Sustainable Smart Societies by Chinmay Chakraborty Pdf

This book discusses the innovative and efficient technological solutions for sustainable smart societies in terms of alteration in industrial pollution levels, the effect of reduced carbon emissions, green power management, ecology, and biodiversity, the impact of minimal noise levels and air quality influences on human health. The book is focused on the smart society development using innovative low-cost advanced technology in different areas where the growth in employment and income are driven by public and private investment into such economic activities, infrastructure and assets that allow reduced carbon emissions and pollution, enhanced energy, and resource efficiency and prevention of the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The book also covers the paradigm shift in the sustainable development for the green environment in the post-pandemic era. It emphasizes and facilitates a greater understanding of existing available research i.e., theoretical, methodological, well-established and validated empirical work, associated with the environmental and climate change aspects.