Greening the building envelope, facade greening and living wall systems

The Greening of Global Warming The Greening of Global Warming

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Greening the Switch

Active research is being conducted in reducing power consumption of all the components of the Internet. To that end, we propose schemes for power reduction in network switches − Time Window Prediction, Power Save Mode and Lightweight Alternative. These schemes are adaptive to changing traffic patterns and automatically tune their parameters to guarantee a bounded and specified increase in laten...

Greening the balanced scorecard

Environmental issues have received considerable attention in the literature over the past few years; consider, for example, Burrit (2004), Hopwood (2009), Hubbard (2009), Masanet-Llodra (2006), and Schaltegger and Wagner (2006), to name but a few. Several factors have motivated companies to investigate and improve environmental performance (Länsiluoto&Järvenpää, 2008). Stakeholders, such as cus...

The Greening of Istanbul

Greening the Manufacturing Function

nvironmentalism is no longer an issue of reluctant compliance with regulatory requirements. In the last decade, it has increasingly emerged as a potential mechanism for gaining competitive advantage and has become an important aspect of strategic management. Being environmentally conscious involves detailed attention to a variety of issues, such as energy conservation, pollution prevention, and...