The aim of this study was to investigate how the present Danish diet could be changed in a climate friendly direction that follows the recommendations of a healthy diet. The carbon footprint (CF) of an average Danish diet was calculated and compared to CF of a recommended healthy diet by 1) modifying the average diet according to the Danish food based dietary guidelines, 2) and adjusting to ens...

Part and parcel of building green homes (GHs) with favorable thermal comfort (TC) is to design and build with reduced carbon footprint (CF) from embodied energy in the building envelope and reduced operational CF overall. Together, the environmental impact of GHs can be reduced significantly. Nevertheless, there is still a need to identify the base CF value for Malaysian GHs and this can be don...

On New Year's Eve, one of the world's largest aircraft, a Qantas Airbus A380 will set off for a 9,000 kilometre round trip over the Antarctic for tourists to enjoy the spectacular scenery. These tourists will leave a very large carbon footprint, even without landing on the continent, but there is additional, increasing concern about the growing pressure from cruise ships and other tourists wish...

System-level research has resulted in significant advancements in horticultural crop production. Contributions of individual components to production efficiency, cost, and environmental impact have been a focus of such research. Public awareness of the environmental impact of products and services is increasing. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a tool to study horticultural crop production system...

A research study identifying the role of ports, a forward timeframe of 30 years in servicing national supply chains is being undertaken. A paradigm shift to ‘water based’ freight solutions by barges and other forms of Short Sea Shipping (SSS proposed in Hallock as well as investigating stakeholder commitment to reducing their carbon footprint will be researched as part of this. Funding and bett...

Data centers, which include both cyber (e.g., servers) and physical (e.g., cooling units) assets, are notorious for their energy consumption and carbon footprint. Nonetheless, a less-known fact about data centers is that they are extremely “thirsty” (for cooling), consuming millions of gallons water each day and raising serious concerns amid extended droughts. To curtail the surging water footp...

With the rise of Internet-scale systems and cloud computing services, there is an increasing trend towards building massive, energy-hungry, and geographically distributed data centers. Due to their enormous energy consumption, data centers are expected to have major impact on the electric grid and potentially the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint. In this regard, the locat...

A methodology was developed and used to determine environmental footprints of beef cattle produced at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center (MARC) in Clay Center, NE, with the goal of quantifying improvements achieved over the past 40 yr. Information for MARC operations was gathered and used to establish parameters representing their production system with the Integrated Farm System Model. The M...

The Ecological Footprint (EF) measure the natural capital demand of human activities (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996 and 2002) and reveal the sustainability of consumption patterns on individual, local, national and global scales (WWF, 2008). The ecological footprint measure the natural capital demand of human activities (Wackernagel and Rees, 1996) and reveal the sustainability of consumption patt...

The aim of this research is to calculate the carbon footprint 2 sports complexes located at Ardahan University Campus in Turkey. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calculation methodology (Tier 1 method) was used for analysis data obtained. As data, electricity and natural gas consumption amounts 2021 were used. limited due insufficient pandemic conditions. a result obtained, calc...