Sustainability starts with conserving resources for future generations. Since human’s existence on this earth, he has been consuming natural resources. The resource consumption pace in the past was very slow, but industrialization in 18th century brought a change in the human lifestyle. New inventions and discoveries upgraded the human workforce to machines. The mass manufacture of goods provid...

the remarkable development of sciences and technologies in the world of]o today has apparently brought mankind comfort and well-being, but it has also created new problems for humans including environmental pollution, widespread changes in world weather conditions, etc. fossil fuels cause numerous environmental pollutions. in other words, on the one hand poisonous gases enter the environment fo...

Background To support the global movement for a sustainable and green environment, everyone should contribute. Higher educational institutes and their users, who are mostly students, are no exception. A strong student-participation approach should be taken to enhance the environment and to contribute to sustainability on campus. As students are the key users of facilities on campus, their knowl...

External Posting Date: September 6, 2011 [Fulltext]. Approved for External Publication  Cloud Sustainability Dashboard, Dynamically Assessing Sustainability of Data Centers and Clouds Cullen Bash, Tahir Cader, Yuan Chen, Daniel Gmach, Richard Kaufman, Dejan Milojicic, Amip Shah, Puneet Sharma HP Laboratories HPL-2011-148 Sustainability; Clouds; monitoring; and modeling. Quantifying and underst...

ABSTRACT- Sustainability and environmental management are the most cited ideas linking the environment and development. The sustainability of natural resources depends upon our paradigm and related approaches to the relationship between society and the environment. Efficient management is a primary task due to the pressure on nature. Ecological footprint analysis has been intro...

in recent years, degradation of environment (water and soil resources) by farmers has increase concerns about sustainability of agriculture. farmers’ behaviors affect conservation of these resources and play important role in sustainability of agriculture as well. shiraz county, like other parts of the country, suffers for degradation of soil and water resources. the aim of this study was to pr...

The increasing concerns about the environment and the depletion of natural resources are the main drivers for the growing interest in sustainability. Manufacturing operations are frequently considered to have an adverse effect on the environment. Hence, the sustainable operation of manufacturing facilities is a vital practice to ensure sustainability. The aim of this paper is to find the optimu...

The role of water pricing for managing water resources is widely recognized in many areas of the world because of the increasing scarcity of water resources, a high competition between water uses and environmental degradation. Based on the analysis of cost of water, this paper explores which types of cost should be reflected in the water pricing enhancing the sustainability of water resources. ...

The concept of digital sustainability introduces a holistic approach on how to maximize the benefits of digital resources for our society. The nine basic conditions for digital sustainability also provide a contribution to potential solutions to the challenges of digital preservation. Elaborateness, transparent structures, semantic data, distributed location, an open licensing regime, shared ta...

In this article, we revisit a foundation sustainability framework and argue that integrated sustainability indicators are needed to enable the integrated reporting process. We develop Corporate Sustainability Indicators (CSI) for a major Australian diversified resources firm and engage with expert stakeholders in determining the indicators’ value and explanatory capacity. Importantly, these typ...