Environmental technology: Green light

Green Sigma and the technology of transformation for environmental stewardship

Many enterprises have launched initiatives and benefited from improving their position as stewards of the environment. Strategies that help determine where to focus investments and resources in order to improve the environment are also becoming more common. Not surprisingly, methodologies designed to reduce waste are well suited to help companies that have environmental impact objectives such a...

Phytoremediation: A Green Technology to Remove Environmental Pollutants

Land, surface waters, and ground water worldwide, are increasingly affected by contaminations from industrial, research experiments, military, and agricultural activities either due to ignorance, lack of vision, carelessness, or high cost of waste disposal and treatment. The rapid build-up of toxic pollutants (metals, radionuclide, and organic contaminants in soil, surface water, and ground wat...

Gamifying Green Surveying and Situating Green Gamification and Persuasive Technology for Environmental Sustainability

This is an (early) draft chapter for the forthcoming book The Gameful World. This draft clocks in at a rather verbose 22,000 words while the final version is around 13,000. Please order the published version at gamefulworld.org or Amazon.com (link). Note: I originally wrote this chapter in January 2013 though the book was not published until January 2015. The pagination, article double spacing,...

Environmental - Green Jobs

Environmental Concerns, Environmental Policy and Green Investment

Environmental regulators often use environmental policy to induce green investment by firms. However, if an environmental policy fails to exert a long-run effect on regulating the economic agents' behavior, it may be more reasonable to think of the firm as the leader in the game, since the investment in green technology is usually a strategic decision. In this paper, we consider a three-stage S...