Jorge Luis Zapico KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications, Stockholm, Sweden Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden [email protected] !! Abstract— The ICT4S Green Hackathon was an event exploring the use of information and communications technologies in sustainable food production and consumption, where developers, designer and problem owners met for creating prototypes and applications for a whole d...

1. ABSTRACT This report is focused on new design directions for the Energy Challenge 09, a student competition to conserve water and electricity in dormitories at the Indiana University Bloomington campus. These new design directions emphasize the use of eco-visualizations (EVs). EVs are "any kind of interactive device targeted at revealing energy use in order to promote more sustainable behavi...

a Earth Sciences Department, University of California, E&MS rm A232, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA b Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA c Environmental Studies Department, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA d Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Uni...

1Laboratory of Microbial Ecology and Technology (LabMET), University of Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium 2Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering (DICAM), University of Bologna, 40131 Bologna, Italy 3Department of Chemistry, UCBIO-Requimte, Faculty of Science&Technology, NewUniversity of Lisbon, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal 4Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering and Envi...

Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA, National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230029, P. R. China, Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA, Materials Science Division, Argonne National...

1 AgroParisTech, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, Thiverval Grignon, France, 2 Laboratoire de Géologie de l’ENS-PSL Research University–Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8538, Paris, France, 3 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 5 Department of Ecology, S...

Gurmeet Singh, Rita Chauhan, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, M. Balakrishna Prasad and AL. Ramanathan* School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi 110 068, India School of Earth, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Central University of Bihar, Patna 800 014, India Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center...

This article suggests that sexual and reproductive health and rights activists seeking to influence the post-2015 international development paradigm must work with sustainable development advocates concerned with a range of issues, including climate change, environmental issues, and food and water security, and that a way of building bridges with these communities is to demonstrate how sexual a...

Universities can contribute to the solutions of major challenges of the 21st century such as increasing environmental and socio-economic crises, inequalities of income and wealth and political instabilities by integrating the concept of sustainable development (SD) in research, organization, and by educating future decision makers. For instance, by integrating sustainability into the organizati...

M J OWEN* , P J MICHAEL , M RENTON* §, K J STEADMAN– & S B POWLES* *Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, School of Agriculture and Environment, Division of Science and Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Northam, WA, Australia, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia, §CSIRO Sustai...