• But even if you skip the debate over the eco-merits of plug-in cars-electricity is only as "green" as the power plant that makes it-or the technological challenge of developing long-lasting batteries that don't cost a fortune or weigh a ton, these technologies still face infrastructure problems. (ecologycenter.org)
  • Alkhalili and Mahmoud have co-authored the article "Claiming space for decolonial scholarship: Confronting epistemic exclusion in green energy colonialism" Political Geography, 107 (2023), which they will use as a point of departure for their seminar presentation. (lu.se)
  • In fact, talking about efficiency instead of sustainability is one way of sidestepping the political issues that inevitably surround any discussion of green technology. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • We refer to 'green IT' as 'efficient IT,' because the industry is quite some ways from having zero negative impact on the natural environment," Kathrin Winkler, EMC's vice president of corporate sustainability and chief sustainability officer, explained to the E-Commerce Times. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Some of the demand for green IT workers is coming from the top down, such as when President Obama issued an executive order in 2009 requiring a commitment to sustainability efforts in all federal government offices and agencies, including the hiring of sustainability officers. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • The position of sustainability officer - or the person in a company, organization or government agency whose job is to manage, oversee and limit environmental impact - is another one of those relatively new job titles that can be included in the green IT movement. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • The University of Washington 's Professional and Continuing Education Department, for instance, recently announced a new Certificate in Green IT, and DeVry University offers two bachelor's degrees that incorporate green computing: one in electronics technology with a renewable energy track and one in management with a sustainability track. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • While few people deny the need to address climate change and sustainability, almost every provision of the Green Deal has generated some resistance. (americamagazine.org)
  • In partnership with the McLean County Fair and Illinois State University Office of Sustainability, the Ecology Action Center will have recycling receptacles available for recyclables generated at the county fair. (ecologyactioncenter.org)
  • The aim of the course is to develop students' perspectives on the relationship between ecology and the sustainability of our current civilisation. (queensu.ca)
  • Concerted conservation efforts have led to a remarkable recovery of multiple green turtle ( Chelonia mydas ) populations worldwide. (nature.com)
  • It sets out the principles, policies and practice which underlie the ecology, planning and management of the new countryside, discussing ways in which countryside conservation objectives are evolving and how they can best be achieved. (whsmith.co.uk)
  • The Tin Mountain zoom seminar will introduce participants to ecology and conservation of vernal pools through a slide lecture program. (gmcg.org)
  • A five-week course tests the mental and physical limitations of six up-and-coming scientific divers as they learn about the ecology and conservation of kelp forest communities through subtidal techniques. (stanford.edu)
  • Since the 1970s, when the first marine scuba diving course was taught at Hopkins Marine Station, the Ecology and Conservation of Kelp Forest Communities course has had a few facelifts. (stanford.edu)
  • Neoliberal environmentality: Towards a poststructuralist political ecology of the conservation debate. (lu.se)
  • Laboratory of Ecology and Conservation of Aquatic Ecosystems. (bvsalud.org)
  • What we really need to get to is where being green and sustainable is part of everybody's job description. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • The discussion will also highlight ongoing and potential ways that external actors are assisting or can assist Ukraine in rebuilding in a green, sustainable manner. (sipri.org)
  • Sustainable finance institution Ecology Building Society has revealed that it increased its net profits by 8% in 2012 - a figure that comes just two weeks after a study showed profits from the big five banks were nullified by past fines and mistakes . (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
  • Our financial success is based on sticking to our core principles: thinking long-term, putting our members first and focussing on our social and environmental impact ", said Ecology chief executive Paul Ellis, who was interviewed for Blue & Green Tomorrow's Guide to Sustainable Banking in 2012. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
  • In March, Ecology launched an updated version of its C-Change sustainable homes scheme , in order to offer owners of energy efficient, low-carbon homes discounts on their mortgages. (blueandgreentomorrow.com)
  • Dr. Nadina Galle will be sharing her expertise on this emerging technology and its use in relation to sustainable urban development at the Grey To Green 2021 Conference hosted by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC) in association with the Green Infrastructure Foundation on June 15 & 16. (greenroofs.com)
  • Watch the Through Salmon Eyes video have students think from a salmon's perspective and discuss how green chemistry and sustainable science can help decrease our impacts on the environment. (wa.gov)
  • Students learn how to apply green chemistry to promote sustainable design, bioplastics, and chemical science. (wa.gov)
  • Check out our interactive calendar below for information on upcoming events, opportunities to get involved with the work of the Ecology Action Centre and chances to meet likeminded people in your community! (ecologyaction.ca)
  • The Ecology Action Centre is located in Mi'kma'ki, the unceded territory of L'nu'k (Mi'kmaq). (ecologyaction.ca)
  • The research group Green Space Governance are located at the Centre of Environmental and Climate Science. (lu.se)
  • My research interests within aquatic ecology are very broad, but initially I focused on competitive interactions between periphyton, phytoplankton and macrophytes, which was also the theme of my thesis. (lu.se)
  • The Green Invasion reflects local peoples' concerns about large scale tree monocultures and the social and environmental impact they entail. (globaljusticeecology.org)
  • Green Roofs for Healthy Cities ' mission is to increase the awareness of the economic, social and environmental benefits of green roofs and green walls, and other forms of living architecture through education, advocacy, professional development and celebrations of excellence. (greenroofs.com)
  • David Keith Orton (January 6, 1934 - May 12, 2011) was a Canadian writer, thinker and environmental activist who played a leading role in developing "left biocentrism" within the philosophy of deep ecology. (wikipedia.org)
  • By bringing design, ecology and socio-political theory together, Boehnert describes how power is constructed, reproduced and obfuscated by design in ways which often cause environmental harms. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Green Food production will be promoted to protect environmental ecology for agriculture. (who.int)
  • The group covers research areas such as, social and environmental science, ecology, climate adaptation and spatial planning. (lu.se)
  • Even if green innovations are developed to reduce environmental impacts, that is not always why they are used. (lu.se)
  • In various parts of the world there are even Institutes for Social Ecology whose programmatic content widely diverges from our own sense of the term. (social-ecology.org)
  • Our research group here is broadly interested in the ways in which wild animals are involved in the ecology of pathogens that have the potential to cause human disease. (cdc.gov)
  • In light of Catholic social teaching, particularly Pope Francis' call for an integral ecology , that wide-ranging approach seems like the best way to proceed. (americamagazine.org)
  • Over the past year, we have been deeply involved with writing projects for journals and books that did not fit the Green Perspectives format, as well as lectures, teaching, studying, and the like. (social-ecology.org)
  • We hope that you will understand our problem of limited time and energy, and we will try to bring future Green Perspectives out on a reasonably timely basis. (social-ecology.org)
  • Former co-editors Chuck Morse and Gary Sisco have both recently left Burlington for personal reasons but remain friends of Green Perspectives and, we hope, contributors to future issues. (social-ecology.org)
  • If Green Perspectives has been quiescent in the past year, however, our friends and colleagues in many parts of the world have not. (social-ecology.org)
  • To pick up the threads of social ecology where Green Perspectives left them a year and a half ago, we summarize in this issue some of the reports on concrete activities that we have received from social ecologists and people sympathetic to social ecology. (social-ecology.org)
  • Not all of the groups we report on here, in fact, agree with social ecology in the Green Perspectives sense. (social-ecology.org)
  • Cyanotoxins are toxins (poisons) that are sometimes produced when small, plant-like organisms called cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) rapidly grow out of control, or bloom. (cdc.gov)
  • Harmful algal and cyanobacterial blooms, an emerging public health issue, are the rapid growth of algae or cyanobacteria in salt and fresh waters that can cause harm to people, animals, or the local ecology. (cdc.gov)
  • Others in the green IT field concur: This is a movement about efficiency as much as anything. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Not every movement or institution that calls itself social-ecological today consistently intends by that phrase social ecology as we have articulated it in these pages. (social-ecology.org)
  • Given the ideological confusion that abounds on the left today generally and in the ecology movement in particular, it should not be surprising that social ecology too has taken on various, often contradictory meanings. (social-ecology.org)
  • In recognition of Sept. 21, International Day of Struggle Against Tree Monocultures, we are happy to present the short documentary The Green Invasion produced by World Rainforest Movement. (globaljusticeecology.org)
  • By foregrounding the embodied engagement of students with natural places through a variety of different physical means, this module lays the foundation for Movement, Mind and Ecology. (plymouth.ac.uk)
  • However, the course remained anchored to three components: train the next generation of underwater scientists, teach the students species identification and natural history, and engage in the ecology of this ecosystem through hands-on long-term monitoring. (stanford.edu)
  • Also, we liked to do this study in Chicago because our research team has been actively conducting bird trapping around Chicago for the past seven years, predominantly to study the ecology and epidemiology of West Nile virus, so it was a great place to also understand how these same birds may be important for a different vectorborne disease, which was Lyme disease. (cdc.gov)
  • In our next issue we will return to our normal format of theoretical articles in social ecology and developments in present-day society. (social-ecology.org)
  • Fields of Green and Gold is a multiple case study analysing the placing and establishment of two large-scale, high-profile, upmarket golf developments with the aim of exploring a political ecology of high-end golf. (lu.se)
  • GRHC is excited to welcome a diverse group of presenters who will share their innovative green infrastructure designs, ground-breaking research findings, and multi-functional policies that break down siloed approaches. (greenroofs.com)
  • The Political Ecology of Agrofuels advances a conceptualisation of agrofuels that helps to fill existing research gaps. (routledge.com)
  • Her research unpacks housing injustices and urban green inequalities through looking at both political economic processes and situated, everyday lived experience. (lu.se)
  • This research group focuses on green space management covering both urban and rural areas. (lu.se)
  • Nora Alkhalili's research focuses on questions of renewable energy, energy transitions, green extractivism, occupied territories and energy justice. (lu.se)
  • Yahia Mahmoud's research focuses on foreign aid, international relations, and political ecology. (lu.se)
  • Her research interests are political ecology and transformative political frameworks including degrowth. (lu.se)
  • In the meantime, in these difficult days for leftist ecologists generally, social ecology is alive, both in theory and practice. (social-ecology.org)
  • When you read about the Green Deal, 'leaving no one behind,' it sounds very nice, but in practice, we can see very often it's not quite followed. (americamagazine.org)
  • Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice, critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Design, Ecology, Politics describes how ecological literacy challenges many central assumptions in design theory and practice. (bloomsbury.com)
  • As the demand for energy to supply the data center increase, the acceptance and the adoption of green computing becomes a priority instead of just a good PR headline for companies. (ecommercetimes.com)
  • Backyard Skills is a D.I.Y workshop series delivered in conjunction with The Ecology Center?s demonstrations in green living. (sanclementegreen.org)
  • In the spirit of Oktoberfest, The Ecology Center will be celebrating Ecotoberfest on Saturday, October 29th from 3-5pm. (sanclementegreen.org)
  • All workshops are held at The Ecology Center. (sanclementegreen.org)
  • We'll compile responses throughout the week and share your responses along with Ecology Action Center staff reflections in our Earth Day e-newsletter on Earth Day. (ecologyactioncenter.org)
  • The slogan underpins the European Green Deal , a wide-ranging series of new regulations and laws that analysts say is the world's most ambitious political plan to respond to climate change. (americamagazine.org)
  • In the wake of the year that finally put climate change on everyone's lips, seems pertinent to throw Art & Ecology together in the mainstream. (newstatesman.com)
  • While not formally calling themselves social ecologists, a number of ecological groups hold principles similar to those of social ecology as articulated in the journal. (social-ecology.org)
  • Their 10-point Left Biocentrism Primer, published in 1998, accepts the idea that the natural world belongs to all living things, but it also calls for the ethical principles of deep ecology to be applied to sensitive political issues such as working for a reduction in the human population, achieving justice for aboriginal peoples, struggling for workers' rights and redistributing wealth. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the same time, green markets are proliferating as a "solution" to the climate crises, raising questions about the risks of deepening old inequalities and enlarging existing distribution conflicts. (lu.se)
  • The Monterey Bay Green Gardener Program trains and certifies landscape industry workers in Monterey Bay-Friendly Landscaping design and maintenance practices. (ecoact.org)
  • Fairhead, J., and Leach, M. Misreading the African landscape: society and ecology in a forest-savanna mosaic. (lu.se)
  • The next 10-week Green Gardener Certification-level course will be offered both online and in-person in April 2022 at the Watsonville/Aptos Adult School, 294 Green Valley Road in Watsonville. (ecoact.org)
  • Before Elahi taught the course in 2019 and again this year, Jim Watanabe, lecturer emeritus at Hopkins Marine Station and local kelp ecology expert, taught the class for nearly three decades. (stanford.edu)
  • Students create their own cellphone case out of renewable mushroom material and assess the product against three green chemistry criteria. (wa.gov)
  • Identifying a gap in how tourism studies has generally not engaged with political ecology and in how political ecology has seldom engaged with tourism or leisure the dissertation concludes that the laborious socio-ecological orderings necessary to establish spectacular golf landscapes are almost illegible from the standpoint of prominent tourism studies strands. (lu.se)
  • For design scholars accustomed to thinking of Marxism as having been absorbed into broader debates about cultural studies, the architects' theories have the potential to recentralize the left-wing inheritance through its adaptation to concerns of ecology. (mdpi.com)
  • Started in the spring of 1992, with both Greek and English editions, the goal of Society and Nature is to "provide a forum for the interchange of ideas between social ecologists, eco-socialists and other left greens, together with feminists and activists in the land-based and indigenous movements in an attempt to reach a synthesis of the autonomous-democratic, libertarian socialist and radical green traditions. (social-ecology.org)
  • Perhaps the greatest single failing of movements for social reconstruction-I refer particularly to the Left, to radical ecology groups, and to organizations that profess to speak for the oppressed-is their lack of a politics that will carry people beyond the limits established by the status quo. (social-ecology.org)
  • Could the fuel of the future come from the most ancient green thing of all: algae? (ecologycenter.org)
  • Introduced in 2019 by the E.U. Commission-a body of officials that serves as a kind of executive branch and bureaucracy to help the treaty-based union of European countries function-the Green Deal amends the European Union's climate, energy, transport and taxation policies with the short term goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030. (americamagazine.org)
  • discussions are also under way for an international social ecology conference, possibly to be held somewhere in Europe next year. (social-ecology.org)
  • We hope that a vibrant exchange of experiences and ideas can lead to an educational process for those dedicated to acting upon and elaborating the ideas of social ecology. (social-ecology.org)
  • According to Takis Fotopoulos, editor-in-chief of the journal Society and Nature, from whom this report is drawn, there is a great deal of interest in Greece in social ecology. (social-ecology.org)
  • This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations. (routledge.com)
  • In his extensive writings for a variety of magazines, journals, websites and his own "Green Web", Orton warned about what he saw as the disastrous effects of basing a society's economy on mass consumption, profit and the exploitation of people and other living beings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ecology has become the trendsetter of the future, and in a number of areas has brought about a complete shift in thinking. (basf.com)
  • The roots of the Art & Ecology concept can be traced to a couple of art movements from the 60's and 70's - Conceptual Art and Land Art, along with a nod and a wink to the Fluxus and Situationist International groups. (newstatesman.com)
  • Fig. 1: Green turtle grazing impact on seagrass seascapes. (nature.com)
  • 4, The green turtle in the Caribbean Sea. (amnh.org)
  • Design, Ecology, Politics is a powerful contribution. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Articles published in this journal make a contribution to the academic field of political ecology. (lu.se)
  • The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflict. (lu.se)
  • Greenroofs.com is a long-time partner of GRHC and we are offering the Greenroofs.com community a $150 discount on Grey to Green Conference registration. (greenroofs.com)
  • The RSA recently held a conference on Arts & Ecology entitled 'No way back' and similarly themed conferences have cropped up in Canada, China and Dartington in Devon where the annual Desire Lines symposium is in its second year. (newstatesman.com)
  • He is interested in issues of foreign aid, international relations, particularly China's role as a global actor, and political ecology. (lu.se)
  • Related plants often produce seeds that are dispersed in very different ways, raising questions of how and why plants undergo adaptive shifts in key aspects of their reproductive ecology. (springer.com)
  • For Marxist theorists concerned about ecology but averse to Western Marxism because of its supposed idealism, Cruz and SH show anew the importance of aesthetic concerns to conceptions of the environment. (mdpi.com)
  • Ecology Ottawa acknowledges that our efforts to protect the environment take place on the traditional unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. (ecologyottawa.ca)
  • By taking stock of your current chemicals and either substituting them for safer alternatives or replacing them with green chemistry experiments, you can ​​ create a safer classroom environment. (wa.gov)
  • These expert panels provide an opportunity for collaboration to support the implementation of green infrastructure approaches as cities develop their recovery strategies. (greenroofs.com)
  • Such concerns are shared by the church, according to Johannes Moravitz, policy advisor for ecology, agriculture and energy at the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union . (americamagazine.org)