scholarly journals Edina Goes Green Part III: A Survey of Consumer Lawn Care Knowledge and Practices

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perrin J. Carpenter ◽  
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Green Part ◽  
Educational Campaign ◽  
Weed Tolerance

Homeowners in Edina, Minn., were surveyed in conjunction with a low-input lawn care community educa- tion project. Surveys were sent at the start and finish of the yearlong project, and asked questions pertaining to the respondent's lawn care knowledge, practices, and environ- mental attitude toward lawn inputs. The responses from before the program, compared with those afterward, show overall that homeowners lawn care did not change signifi- cantly by the end of the educational campaign. Responses are useful, however, in targeting future educational efforts. For example, while >80% of respondents were aware of the benefits of leaving mowed clippings on the lawn, <6% knew how much fertilizer is needed yearly for a medium mainte- nance lawn. Participants indicated a 10% weed tolerance was acceptable, but 25% was not; and disagreed with the state- ment &quot;pesticides are not harmful to the environment.”

scholarly journals Edina Goes Green: A Community Education Project in Low-Input Lawn Care

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 492D-492
Author(s):  
Perrin J. Carpenter ◽  
Mary H. Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Educational Program ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Pesticide Use ◽  
Master Gardener ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Educational Campaign ◽  
Chemical Inputs ◽  
Care Measure

The objectives of the project were to design and implement an educational campaign on low-input lawn care, measure its effectiveness, and use the information gained to develop a model education plan that other communities could use. Residents of Edina, Minn., a suburb of Minneapolis, initiated the project by expressing an interest in reducing the amounts of chemical inputs (fertilizers and pesticides) used on residential lawns. The program's educational goal focused on teaching Edina's residents about proper timing and rate of application of all lawn inputs, as well as cultural techniques for producing a healthy lawn. The educational campaign consisted of informational articles published in Edina's quarterly community magazine; the establishment of 19 demonstration sites in which volunteer homeowners worked with Master Gardener mentors learning low-input lawn care techniques; a WWW page where information about lawn care and the project itself was posted; and a public seminar conducted by a turf specialist. Two surveys (May 1996 and April 1997) were distributed, each to a random sample of 800 Edina residents. The surveys measured lawn care knowledge and current practices, attitudes concerning pesticide use and the environment, as well as the effectiveness of this educational program. Recommendations for other community educational programs will be presented.

scholarly journals Edina Goes Green Part I: A Model for Low-input Lawn Care Community Education

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perrin J. Carpenter ◽  
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Specific Objective

A yearlong community education project was conducted in Edina, Minn., to teach residents about low-input lawn care techniques. Informational articles, a World Wide Web (Web) page, public seminar, and demonstration sites were the four major strategies employed by the project. Each of these teaching methods had a specific objective for influencing the lawn care knowledge and practices of Edina residents. Feedback from surveys at the completion of the project showed that printed articles had the highest familiarity. Based on these results, recommendations are given for other communities to implement low-input lawn care education programs.

scholarly journals To Build a Notion: US State Department Nation Building Expertise and Postwar Settlements in 20th Century East Central Europe

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-89
Author(s):  
Liliana Riga ◽  
James Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
State Department ◽  
Historical Sociology ◽  
The State ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Comparative Historical Sociology ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
A Site

This article offers a contribution to the sociology of social science knowledge practices and expertise through the empirical lens of US nation building policies. Drawing on archival materials, including the State Department's Freedom of Information Act documents, and interviews with key policymakers we offer a comparative historical sociology of the US State Department as a site of nation building knowledge and expertise. In examining the evolving character of nation building expertise in three key moments across the twentieth century, we find that as nation building expertise and its attendant knowledge practices were redefined and institutionally relocated, the essential character of the expertise and data collection practices that were valorized shifted from social scientism in the 1910s to geopolitical empiricism in the 1940s to liberal legalism in the 1990s. This changing character of nation building knowledge practices at the State Department had an effect on the substance of US nation building policy.

Reinventing spiritual care in a secular context: the chaplain as entrepreneur

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Hetty Zock
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Cultural Climate ◽  
Recent Developments

This paper discusses the state of chaplaincy—professional spiritual care—in the secularized context of the Netherlands. The present religious and cultural climate is sketched, as well as the organization of chaplaincy and the daily practices of chaplains. Two important recent developments are highlighted: the rise of non-denominational spiritual care and spiritual caregivers getting involved in extramural care (community care). Finally, the Guideline Spiritual Care—an interdisciplinary model for providing spiritual care—is presented. It is argued that chaplaincy in the Netherlands has gone through a process of transformation, in which the relation between the professional and the religious identity of the chaplain had to be redefined. Spiritual care may still be denominationally organized in the Netherlands, but the spiritual caregivers share a common professional identity as professionals who focus on meaning, belief systems, and ethics.

scholarly journals Edina Goes Green Part II: Using Home Lawns as Demonstration Sites to Teach Low-input Lawn Care

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-491
Author(s):  
Perrin J. Carpenter ◽  
Mary Hockenberry Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Individualized Instruction ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Individual Instruction ◽  
Home Lawns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Project Objectives ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
Public Demonstration

Master Gardeners (MGs) were paired with homeowners who volunteered their lawns for demonstration sites in Edina, Minn., as part of a yearlong community-wide campaign to teach low-input lawn care. Project objectives were to 1) promote locations where community members could see low-input lawn care, 2) provide individualized instruction to homeowners via MGs, and 3) explore the feasibility of home lawns as public demonstration sites. Surveys suggest that participants changed practices because of the individual instruction from MGs. Further recommendations are given for using private homes as demonstration sites.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 274-289
Author(s):  
Tarangini Sriraman
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Popular Knowledge ◽  
Identification Documents ◽  
Indian State

The conclusion of the book argues that state conventions of issuing identification documents and administering poor subjects by absorbing popular knowledge practices did not manifest themselves abruptly or evenly. The very terms and connotations of people demanding certain genres, making and re-making identification documents cannot be read independently of the historical and socio-spatial contexts in which relations between the state and its subjects unfolded. Where the Indian state has drawn out its welfare capacities through popular mobilizations by collectives such as workers’ unions, refugee associations, and slum residents, a unique reliance on a number-based ecosystem threatens to undo the reciprocities and dynamics of governing the poor. We may then be in clamorous need of paper-based infrastructures and potentialities of engendering evidentiary knowledge of the welfare subject where they allow for such innovations.

scholarly journals Are Consumers Willing to Pay More for Low-Input Turfgrasses on Residential Lawns? Evidence from Choice Experiments

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 549-560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengyan Yue ◽  
Kari Hugie ◽  
Eric Watkins
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Choice ◽  
Choice Behavior ◽  
Mixed Logit ◽  
Consumer Preference ◽  
Choice Data ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Lawn Care ◽  
Maintenance Requirements ◽  
Consumer Choice Behavior

A choice experiment with real products was used to investigate consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for several low-input attributes of turfgrasses. The choice scenarios consisted of turfgrass plots, which varied in aesthetic quality characteristics and were labeled with differing levels of maintenance requirements (irrigation, fertilizer, etc.), shade adaptation, origin, and price. A mixed logit model was used to analyze the choice data and estimate consumer WTP. Our results suggest that low-input maintenance attributes significantly influence consumer choice behavior and identify a strong consumer preference for reduced irrigation and mowing requirements. The introduction of low-input turfgrasses could be a viable strategy for reducing the maintenance inputs and costs for residential lawn care.

scholarly journals The Professionalization of Philosophy and the Criteria of Philosophical Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Vera Tripodi
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Continental Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Philosophical Practice ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Italian Philosophy ◽  
The Way

In this paper, I investigate the issue of the professionalization of philosophy, taking as my starting point the debate triggered by the publication of Diego Marconi’s monograph, Il mestiere di pensare (Thinking as a Trade, 2014). This debate about the state of the art of Italian philosophy and the increased tendency towards specialization in philosophy is still on-going. It raises the issue of how to understand the putative split between analytic and continental philosophy, and how to establish standards or criteria for evaluating the quality of philosophical research. I conclude by posing the question about what needs to change in our knowledge practices and suggest that what is needed is an overhauling of our conceptions of trust, reliance, testimony, and justice, with a view to re-defining how social identity affects the way we operate in philosophical practice and how we establish our credibility.

scholarly journals Breeding objectives and economic values for traits of low input family-based beef cattle production system in the State of Rio Grande do Sul

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Henrique Laske ◽  
Bruno Borges Machado Teixeira ◽  
Nelson José Laurino Dionello ◽  
Fernando Flores Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Beef Cattle ◽  
Production System ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Cattle Production ◽  
Economic Values ◽  
Low Input ◽  
Beef Cattle Production ◽  
Family Based

scholarly journals The Communication Patterns of Leadership in Improving Work Ethic of Lecturer and Staff in Asahan University (Islamic Communication Perspective)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-476
Author(s):  
Dailami Dailami ◽  
Syukur Kholil ◽  
Lahmuddin Lubis
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Mental Attitude ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Method

This study aims to analyze the communication patterns of leadership in improving work ethic of lecturer and staff, the implementation of leadership communication patterns to the principles of Islamic communication and to identify various barriers occurring at Asahan University. The research method used in this study is a descriptive method through a qualitative approach, by observing the state of the subject or object of research at the time of the study based on the events that are seen. The results of research carried out show the communication patterns of leadership in improving work ethic of lecturer and staff through vertical patterns, horizontal patterns and diagonal patterns. Whereas the implementation of Islamic communication Principles at Asahan University are Qaulan Sadīdā, Maīysūrā Qaulan, Ma'rūfā Qaulan, Layyinā Qaulan, Karīma Qaulan and Balighā Qaulan. Barriers in improving work ethic of lecturer and staff include mental attitude, primordial relation, welfare levels and improper placement of work fields.

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