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    Do The Math
    (PF Pictures, 2013-09-22) Kelly NyksJared; P. Scott
    The fossil fuel industry is killing us. They have five times the amount of coal, gas and oil that is safe to burn - and they are planning on burning it all. Left to their own devices, they'll push us past the brink of cataclysmic disaster - life as we know it will be irrevocably altered forever. Unless we rise up and fight back. DO THE MATH chronicles "America's leading environmentalist" Bill McKibben in a David-vs-Goliath battle to fight the fossil fuel industry and change the terrifying math of the climate crisis. Bill McKibben is going after Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Gas directly - energizing a movement like the ones that overturned the great immoral institutions of the past century - such as Apartheid in South Africa. Putting his body on the line to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline and leading universities and institutions to divest in the corporations destroying our livelihoods, McKibben is uniting the growing global majority that view the climate crisis as the most important moral issue of the day. The film also features a veritable who's who of the climate movement including Dr. James Hansen (Frmr. Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Naomi Klein (Author, The Shock Doctrine), Van Jones (CNN Correspondent & Author, The Green Collar Economy) Lester Brown (President, Earth Policy Institute), Michael Brune (Executive Director, Sierra Club), Bobby Kennedy Jr. (President, Waterkeeper Alliance) Majora Carter (Founder, Sustainable South Bronx), Phil Radford (Executive Director, Greenpeace), James Gustave Speth (Co-Founder of NRDC), among others.
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    Approaching environmental sustainability of agriculture: environmental burden, eco-efficiency or eco-effectiveness
    (Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), 2019) Czyżewski, Bazyli ; Matuszczak, Anna ; Muntean, Andreea
    The main goal of the article is to compare three approaches to measuring environmental sustainability in agriculture: i) the environmental burden index; ii) the sustainable value of eco-efficient production; and iii) the sustainable value of the eco-effective farm, applied to the sample of 130 EUFADN (European Union Farm Accountancy Data Network) regions in 2015. The study indicates a fundamental problem: the notion of environmental sustainability in agriculture differs depending on the criterion we apply. We recognized a principle trade-off in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) which consists of compensating for the strain on the natural environment with production or with public goods provision. Studies on these two effects seem to be crucial to draw a consistent development path for the CAP. Our major finding is that public goods-oriented farming is more likely to expand after improving eco-efficiency. This is still a challenge because in European regions, eco-efficient has not meant environmentally sustainable yet.
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    The Climate Question
    ( 2020-11) BBC News
    Stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that. A global programme that reflects the variety of takes on climate change, how best to understand it and the world’s attempts to avert it, temper it or adapt to it. It is not about questioning whether climate change is happening, it’s about finding the best ways to respond to it. This is sharp-edged, analytical inquiry. Hard scrutiny, touched with a sense of adventure and discovery, and where we can find it, hope. It includes stories from across the world on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.
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    Solar energy as natural resource utilization in urban areas: Solar energy efficiency literature review
    (IOP Publishing, 2021) Ummah, H F ; Setiati, R ; Dadi, Y B V ; Ariq, M N ; Malinda, M T
    Solar power plant is a power generator that utilizes solar cells to transform solar radiation into electrical energy. Solar cells are a direct energy technology. Electrical energy can be produced without the assistance of moving fluids such as vapour or gas. If it is compared with wind, water and biomasses powers, solar cells utilization tend to be much easier and simpler. The aim of this research is to evaluate urban areas potentials to utilize solar cells as solar power plant. The energy of the sun as a stable electricity source would never be damaged and environmental friendly. A solar power plant system is divided into several sections. Solar cells will transform solar energy into electricity. The electricity produced by solar panels will be stored in an accumulator through a charger controller. This charger controller will act as voltage and current regulator in the accumulator. Rooftop solar power plant utilization has improved as much as 170%. At this moment, there are numerous buildings and housings in urban areas that have already installed rooftop solar panels as electricity generator. Jakarta and Surabaya are two major cities that have already implement rooftop solar power plant on top of office buildings, universities, and housings. Rooftop solar power plant is an environmental friendly and a potential electricity generator to be implemented.
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    The Disneyfication of Climate Crisis: Negotiating Responsibility and Climate Action in Frozen, Moana, and Frozen 2
    (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021) Midkiff, Emily ; Austin, Sara
    Grounding our analysis in a broad reading of ecocriticism in children's literature and culture, as well as Disney's marketing of the films and their toys and material culture, we argue that these princess films can offer young viewers an introduction to issues of global warming, but do not always follow through on their green promise. Acknowledging that all art exists and participates in a neoliberal capitalist system and must contend with market forces in its production and dissemination, Gaard investigates the "confluence of ecopedagogy, ecofeminist and environmental justice literary criticisms [which] raises at least three important questions about children's environmental literature": whether it challenges the binary of human/nature and the resulting power imbalance, whether it solves environmental issues through community engagement rather than by children's efforts alone, and whether it gives nature its own subjectivity and agency without a hero-and-damsel dynamic (327; 327–30). Through its acquisition of Marvel, Discovery Channel, ABC, and Star Wars, as well as its staple cartoons, Disney has emerged as one of the primary producers of children's content in the twenty-first century. [...]a critical analysis of Disney is important to understanding the current role of children's ecoliterature and ecopedagogy. Not only does this shift suggest that children take responsibility for climate change in new ways, but it also uses this responsibility as a marketing tool to sell theme park experiences, toys, and branded merchandise, many of which are not ecologically responsible.
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    Evaluating the Environmental Sustainability of Smart Cities in India: The Design and Application of the Indian Smart City Environmental Sustainability Index
    (MDPI AG, 2021) Singh, Prabhat Kumar ; Ohri, Anurag
    There is a growing consensus that the initiatives taken under the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) in India should be used as an opportunity to prepare models for Environmentally Sustainable Smart Cities (ESSC). While developed countries have earlier worked towards Sustainable Cities and now are moving towards Smart Sustainable Cities, the conditions in developing countries are different. In their current form, SCM guidelines appear to emphasize more on social and economic development along with governance issues using modern tools of information and communication technology (ICT). To ensure environmental sustainability of such large-scale development planning, after a two-stage screening process, 24 environmental indicators have been finalized (including 11 from the existing guidelines), which can be used to monitor various environmentally sustainable elements of smart cities. Accordingly, in the present study; a tentative framework has been developed using these indicators to arrive at a Smart City Environmental Sustainability Index (SCESI) on a 0–100 increasing scale, and the city’s environmental sustainability has been classified under five categories: Excellent; Good; Fair; Poor or Critically Low; based on decreasing SCESI. Using this framework, five Indian cities, which are currently being developed under SCM (Delhi; Patna; Allahabad; Varanasi; and Bhubaneswar), have been examined. The analyses indicate that while three of them (Delhi, Allahabad, and Bhubaneswar) are found in the Fair (SCESI = 40–60) category of environmental sustainability, two (Varanasi and Patna) are in the Poor (SCESI = 20–40) category. The SCESI developed may be used as a monitoring and diagnostic tool for planning and managing services connected with the environment surrounding human life.
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    A numerical study of Hydro-Hydraulic energy on Undular Tidal Bore phenomenon
    (IOP Publishing, 2021-02) Putra, Y S ; Noviani, E ; Nurhasanah ; Nurhanisa, M ; Azwar, A
    A preliminary study of hydro-hydraulic energy on undular bores may support the invention of various kinds of technology related to renewable energy sourced from the potential of natural resources of Indonesia. Energy could be generated from one type of hydraulic jump that occurs in the river channel, namely undular tidal bore. The tidal bore phenomenon also exists in Indonesia, which occurs in the Kampar River, Riau, known as Bono. A numerical study of energy on wave-like tidal bore has been done for one type of bores, namely undular bores. The simulation of undular bores has been generated using the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach assisted by the open-source CFD software, OpenFOAM which applied a turbulent model, namely one-equation Large Eddy Simulation (LES). The undular bores simulation in this study has been validated using experimental and numerical data from selected scientific references. Six simulations of undular bores have been performed based on six different values of Froude number, Fr = 1.04, 1.13, 1.20, 1.27, 1.34, and 1.41. Furthermore, the free surface of undular bores simulation was analyzed by emphasizing on the depth of upstream and downstream flows (d0 and d2 respectively). The rate of change of flow depth ( ), energy dissipation ( ), the rate of energy dissipation ( ), and hydraulic power dissipated of undular bores (PUB ) will increase as a function of the Froude number.
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    How the climate crisis is transforming the meaning of ‘sustainability’ in business
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-10-12) Raz Godelnik
    Companies have been slow to commit to reducing their emissions to zero no later than mid-century, a target that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – roughly 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit – and avoid the worst effects of climate change. Why corporate climate pledges of ‘net-zero’ emissions should trigger a healthy dose of skepticism ------------ How to transform business sustainability Companies have tried to rebrand their efforts in ways that sound more sophisticated, moving from terms like “corporate social responsibility (CSR)” to “environmental, social and governance (ESG),” “purposeful companies” and “carbon-neutral products.” Public relations and advertising employees called out their own industry in a report exposing 90 agencies working with fossil fuel companies.
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    How the climate crisis is transforming the meaning of ‘sustainability’ in business
    (The Conversation US, Inc., 2021-10-12) Raz Godelnik
    Companies have been slow to commit to reducing their emissions to zero no later than mid-century, a target that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers necessary to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius – roughly 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit – and avoid the worst effects of climate change. Why corporate climate pledges of ‘net-zero’ emissions should trigger a healthy dose of skepticism ------------ How to transform business sustainability Companies have tried to rebrand their efforts in ways that sound more sophisticated, moving from terms like “corporate social responsibility (CSR)” to “environmental, social and governance (ESG),” “purposeful companies” and “carbon-neutral products.” Public relations and advertising employees called out their own industry in a report exposing 90 agencies working with fossil fuel companies.
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    Rural renewable energy development: lessons learned from community-based renewable energy business model in East Sumba, Indonesia
    ( 2022) Prilandita, N ; Sagala, S ; Azhari, D ; Habib, A H
    Sumba Island is a remote region with great potential for renewable energy sources, as the Iconic Island of Renewable Energy designated through the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Decree No. 3051 K / 30 / MEM / 2015 is targeted to reach 100% of renewable energy usage with 95% of electrification by 2025. To reach this target, the participation of the community as the subject of every renewable energy project is essential. This paper aims to identify the lessons learned to enhance the community’s capacity in implementing the rural community-based renewable energy business model in Indonesia, with the case of the renewable energy business in Luku Wingir and Waimbidi Village - East Sumba. The result indicates that the Rural Community-based Renewable Energy Business Model in the case study need to be developed based on the fundamental strategies of building community capacity: (1) leadership development of the village community in East Sumba, (2) business organizational development in managing the renewable energy, (3) developing a significant role for the community in organizing renewable energy, and (4) adapting collaborative relations among multiple stakeholders in East Sumba.
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    ( 2025-05-31) fjalves
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