Greening the Earth

Greening of the Earth and its drivers

Zaichun Zhu1,2, Shilong Piao*, Ranga B. Myneni3, Mengtian Huang2, Zhenzhong Zeng2, Josep G. Canadell4, Philippe Ciais2,5, Stephen Sitch6, Pierre Friedlingstein7, Almut Arneth8, Chunxiang Cao9, Lei Cheng10, Etsushi Kato11, Charles Koven12, Yue Li2, Xu Lian2, Yongwen Liu2, Ronggao Liu13, Jiafu Mao14, Yaozhong Pan15, Shushi Peng2, Josep Peñuelas16,17, Benjamin Poulter18, Thomas A. M. Pugh8,19, Ben...

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