Sustainable Practices in Geoenvironmental Engineering

The global Halal industry is large and continues to grow as the global Muslim population increases in size and dispersion. There are 1.84 billion Muslims today spread over 200 countries and is expected to increase to 2.2 billion by 2030. The industry will be worth USD6.4 trillion by the end of 2018 with more non-traditional players and emergent markets. The stakes are high with pressures to generate novel and sustainable practices. This goes beyond systems and hard skills as it needs to cut into the self – the person of virtues in virtuous acts, not because they “have to” but because it is the purpose of humankind or his telos - to be “living well” and “acting well” or eudaimonia. This study seek to explore Halal executives’ lived experience of “eudaimonia.”. Using Giorgi’s descriptive psychological phenomenological method for data analysis, the study elicits two distinct invariant structures – ‘disequilibrium in status quo’ and ‘divinity salience’.

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Recreational diving services - Requirements and guidance on environmentally sustainable practices in recreational diving

10.3403/30363648 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Practices ◽

Environmentally Sustainable ◽

Recreational Diving

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Sustainable Consumer Behavior in Purchasing, Using and Disposing of Clothes

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158333 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8333

Author(s):

Mirella Soyer ◽

Koen Dittrich

Keyword(s):

Consumer Behavior ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Multiple Regression ◽

Significant Role ◽

Social Motivation ◽

The Other ◽

Social Evaluation ◽

Sustainable Practices ◽

Usage Phase ◽

The Core

In this study we investigate how consumers in The Netherlands can be persuaded to adopt sustainable practices when purchasing, using and disposing of clothes. This study investigates the attitude-behavior gap for the sustainable choices for purchase, use and disposing of clothes. For each consumption phase we ran a two-step multiple regression. The findings showed that the importance of the factors vary in the three consumption phases. For purchasing and disposal decisions, the core motivator social motivation predicts sustainable practices best, while it has no role in the usage phase. The factor ability appeared to have a significant role in the disposal phase, but not in the other phases. Finally, the trigger appears to lower the consumers’ ability in the purchasing phase, while it enhances the core motivator social evaluation in the disposal phase.

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Evaluation and Lessons Learned from a Campus as a Living Lab Program to Promote Sustainable Practices

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041739 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1739

Author(s):

Paul Save ◽

Belgin Terim Cavka ◽

Thomas Froese

Keyword(s):

Learning Curve ◽

Business Process ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Process Models ◽

Sustainable Practices ◽

Business Process Models ◽

District Energy ◽

University Of British Columbia ◽

Living Lab ◽

The University

Any group that creates challenging goals also requires a strategy to achieve them and a process to review and improve this strategy over time. The University of British Columbia (UBC) set ambitious campus sustainability goals, including a reduction in its greenhouse gas emissions to 33% below the 2007 level by 2015, and 100% by 2050 (UBC, 2006). The University pursued these goals through a number of specific projects (such as major district energy upgrade and a bioenergy facility) and, more generally, through a “Campus as a Living Lab” (CLL) initiative to marry industry, campus operations, and research to drive innovative solutions. The CLL program has achieved significant successes while also demonstrating many opportunities for improvements and lessons learned. The aim of this study was to examine the UBC CLL program, to identify and formalize its operations, to extract key transferable characteristics, and to propose replicable processes that other universities and municipalities can follow to expand their sustainable practices in similar ways. There was a learning curve with implementing a CLL program at UBC; thus, the goal of this study was to potentially shorten this learning curve for others. The research involved an ethnographic approach in which researchers participated in the CLL process, conducted qualitative analysis, and captured the processes through a series of business process models. The research findings are shared in two parts: 1. generalized lessons learned through key transferrable characteristics; 2. a series of generic organizational charts and business process models (BPMs) culminated with learned strategies through defined processes that illustrate what was required to create a CLL program at UBC. A generalized future improvement plan for UBC CLL programs is defined, generic BPMs about CLL projects are evaluated, and the level of engagement of multiple stakeholders through phases of project life cycle given in the conclusion for future use of other Living Lab organizations.

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