Creating Green Campus for Happiness and Wellbeing

Green Campus initiative and its impacts on quality of life of stakeholders in Green and Non-Green Campus universities

In 2010, Universitas Indonesia (UI) developed the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking for universities to share information about their sustainability practices. This ranking system was well aligned with the basis of Sustainability for Higher Education. The scoring system can also be used as a guideline for universities to achieve sustainability in their campuses. Since its first launch, mo...

Peace, war, and happiness: Bruder Klaus as wellbeing facilitator

Little is known in the scholarly literature about the effect of war and peace on happiness; but they have a large number of direct and indirect effects on happiness, difficult or impossible to capture due mainly to issues of causality and attribution. The paper concentrates on three fundamental claims regarding the effect of war and peace on happiness: ‘War brings happiness’; ‘People adjust to ...

Creating a Green Brand for Competative Distinction

Changes in productivity, psychological wellbeing and physical wellbeing from working in a 'green' building.

BACKGROUND Based on improvements in indoor environmental quality claims are that 'green' buildings are healthier and promote greater productivity than conventional buildings. However, the empirical evidence over the last decade has been inconclusive, usually with flawed study designs. OBJECTIVE This study explored whether a 'green' building leads to a healthier, more productive work environme...

Creating Markets for Green Biofuels: Measuring and improving environmental performance

This study describes how some biofuels are produced, emphasizing agricultural production systems, and considers what is needed in order to measure and communicate environmental performance, and gives examples of how this might be done. We describe a set of seven uses of a Green Biofuels Index, from a wholly market-driven implementation through a set of increasingly intrusive regulatory approach...