We got something in common,” Dale Ross told Al Gore last summer. “You invented the internet. And I invented green energy.” Ross, the mayor of Georgetown, ...
258 pages , Routledge , 2010-06-25 As the first book in the field of leadership studies to approach sustainability as a multi-faceted leadership challenge, Leadership for Environmental Sustainability will help to set the terms of the discussion on this topic among students, scholars, and practitioners of leadership for years to come. It explores the connection between le...[Read More]
264 pages , Elsevier , 2003-02-17 The importance of local programmes in driving sustainable development has been enshrined in Local Agenda 21, arguably the most influential output of the 1992 Rio 'Earth' Summit. Its importance has been reiterated more recently by the Johannesburg Summit in 2002. Local Environmental Sustainability sets the context for local environmental ...[Read More]
392 pages , Routledge , 2002-01-04 A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability. Is environemental sustainability economic growth or `green growth', a contra...[Read More]
The ambitious 'Green New Deal' aims to move America to 100 percent clean and renewable energy by 2030 and carries an estimated price tag of $7 trillion; ...
466 pages , Springer , 2017-12-28 This collection examines the role that foreign aid can play in dealing with the severe global challenge of climate change, one of the most pressing international development issues of the 21st century. Addressing the key threats of rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, coastal erosion and natural disasters, the book considers th...[Read More]
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240 pages , Springer , 2018-01-14 Bioremediation is the use of microorganisms' metabolism to degrade waste contaminants (sewage, domestic, and industrial effluents) into non-toxic or less toxic materials by natural biological processes. Remediation through fungi—or mycoremediation—has multifarious possibilities in applied remediation engineering and the future of env...[Read More]
148 pages , CRC Press , 2016-12-08 This book explores the challenges of presenting sustainability as a more actionable or practical concept and identifying approaches that might offer useful assistance in addressing the temporal and spatial representation of sustainability. The underlying premise of this book is that sustainability is a state realized in the future. In t...[Read More]
WARSAW, POLAND — AFP reports that a novel processing method has been developed that allows for the production of solar panels at lower temperatures and ...
