Creating Environmental Stewards: Nonfiction Prompting a Sustainable Planet

Creating sustainable value

Executive Overview Just as the creation of shareholder value requires performance on multiple dimensions, the global challenges associated with sustainable development are also multifaceted, involving economic, social, and environmental concerns. Indeed, these challenges have implications for virtually every aspect of a firm’s strategy and business model. Yet, most managers frame sustainable de...

Creating Sustainable Spaces

The Story of My Face: How Environmental Stewards Perceive

The story of my face intertwines concepts of social semiotics and discourse analysis to explore how a simple type of printed media (flyer) can generate stigmatization of informal recyclers, known as binners in Western Canada. Every day, media exposes humans to signifiers (e.g., words, photographs, cartoons) that appear to be trivial but influence how we perceive their meaning. Amongst the signi...

Creating a Sustainable Biosolids Management Plan

A city with a population of approximately 12,500 operates two advanced wastewater treatment facilities (WWTF) with a combined treatment capacity permitted at 2.75 million gallons per day (mgd). Each facility discharges 100% of the effluent generated onsite to the reuse system for use throughout the city. Biosolids at each facility are aerobically digested and the city uses an independent contra...

Creating opportunities for sustainable innovation

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