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Green Empire: The St. Joe Company and the Remaking of Florida's Panhandle
by Kathryn Ziewitz June WiazSince the Great Depression, the St. Joe Company (formerly the St. Joe Paper Company) has been Florida's largest landowner, a forestry and transportation conglomerate whose influence has been commensurate with its holdings. The company owns nearly one million acres, mainly in northwestern Florida, where undeveloped coastal and riverside landscapes boast some of the state's most scenic and ecologically diverse areas. For 60 years, the company focused on growing trees, turning them into paper, and managing its ancillary businesses. In the late 1990s, the company shifted directions: it sold its paper mill, changed its name, and launched a concerted drive to turn its natural-resource assets into greater profits. Today the St. Joe Company is a critical and fiscally powerful force in the real-estate development of northwest Florida, with access to the most influential people in government. Based on hundreds of sources--including company executives, board members, and investors, as well as outside observers--this factual and balanced history describes the St. Joe Company from the days of its founders to the workings and dealings of its present-day heirs. For anyone concerned with land use and growth management, particularly those with an interest in Florida's fragile wildlife and natural resources, Green Empire will illuminate the issues surrounding the relationship between one of the most ambitious players in Florida's real-estate market and the state's last frontier.
Green Energy (A True Book (Relaunch))
by Jasmine TingEnvision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.We use a lot of energy to power our lives = from our homes and cars to our tablets and handheld games. The challenge facing us today is finding sustainable energy methods that will ensure a green future. There are seven different types of green energy = and they are the only types that don't pollute our Earth. We have learned how to harness the power of the sun, wind, water, and Earth. And technological innovations have allowed us to put these alternative energies to work in our everyday lives. Green Energy will show you how.ABOUT THE SERIES:What would a green future look like? Will trains and airplanes be powered by the sun? Will we have homes that have zero impact on the environment? The most pressing challenge facing us today is how to ensure a healthy Earth for ourselves and future generations. This STEM-based set of A True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach those goals. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way = and in the simplest terms possible = and will inspire kids to start envisioning and enacting a more sustainable future.
Green Energy and Networking: 5th EAI International Conference, GreeNets 2018, Guimarães, Portugal, November 21–23, 2018, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #269)
by João L. Afonso Vítor Monteiro José Gabriel PintoThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Green Energy and Networking, GreeNets 2018, held in Guimarães, Portugal, in November 2018. The 15 full papers were selected form 26 submissions and cover a wide spectrum of ideas to reduce the impact of the climate change, while maintaining social prosperity. In this context, growing global concern leads to the adoption of the new technological paradigms, especially for the operation of future smart cities.
Green Energy: Technology, Economics and Policy
by U. AswathanarayanaRenewable fuels, such as wind, solar, biomass, tides, and geothermal, are inexhaustible, indigenous, and often free. However, capturing them and transforming them into electricity, hydrogen, or clean transporation fuels often is not. Green Energy: Technology, Economics, and Policy addresses how to approach and apply technology, economics, and
Green Engineering and Technology: Innovations, Design, and Architectural Implementation (Green Engineering and Technology)
by Zdzislaw Polkowski Om Prakash Jena Alok Ranjan TripathyEscalating urbanization and energy consumption have increased the demand for green engineering solutions and intelligent systems to mitigate environmental hazards and offer a more sustainable future. Green engineering technologies help to create sustainable, eco-friendly designs and solutions with the aid of updated tools, methods, designs, and innovations. These technologies play a significant role in optimizing sustainability in various areas of energy, agriculture, waste management, and bioremediation and include green computing and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Green Engineering and Technology: Innovations, Design, and Architectural Implementation examines the most recent advancements in green technology, across multiple industries, and outlines the opportunities of emerging and future innovations, as well as practical real-world implementation. Features: Provides different models capable of fulfilling the criteria of energy efficiency, health and safety, renewable resources, and more Examines recycling, waste management, and bioremediation techniques as well as waste-to-energy technologies Presents business cases for adopting green technologies including electronics, manufacturing, and infrastructure projects Reviews green technologies for applications such as energy production, building construction, transportation, and industrialization Green Engineering and Technology: Innovations, Design, and Architectural Implementation serves as a useful and practical guide for practicing engineers, researchers, and students alike.
Green Engineering: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design
by Riadh HabashThis is a primary text project that combines sustainability development with engineering entrepreneurship and design to present a transdisciplinary approach to modern engineering education. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions of concepts in sustainability, its principles, and its relevance to environment, economy, and society. It can be read by all engineers regardless of their disciplines as well as by engineering students as they would be future designers of products and systems. This book presents a flexible organization of knowledge in various fields, which allows to be used as a text in a number of courses including for example, engineering entrepreneurship and design, engineering innovation and leadership, and sustainability in engineering design
Green Equilibrium: Deciphering Earth's Ecosystems for Sustainable Tomorrow (Green Energy and Technology)
by Akarsh Verma Juhi GuptaThis book offers a profound exploration into our planet's intricate ecosystems, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable practices. Through insightful analysis and compelling narratives, this book unveils the delicate balance of nature and our role in preserving it for future generations. This book is a must-read for those committed to understanding and protecting our Earth's environmental harmony. Join the journey toward a sustainable tomorrow.
Green Events and Green Tourism: An International Guide to Good Practice
by Emma Nolan Hugues SeraphinAs the appetite for leisure travel and events continues to grow at an exponential rate, the impact on the environment and local communities is becoming an increasing concern, not least by the users of the services. Green approaches to tourism and events are growing in popularity and present an opportunity to both identify solutions to significant environmental and societal problems and new approaches to business. <P><P>Green Events and Green Tourism looks at key frameworks, guidelines, principles and benchmarks that support the application of sustainability in practice. The five sections of the book cover themes of governance, accreditation, certification, innovation, priorities, trends, ambitions and consumer behaviour, and the chapters include examples of best practice in the organisation of music and arts festivals, special interest tourism, the green management of outdoor sites and the management of sports events. Readers will benefit from insightful case studies from around the globe.
Green Facilities Handbook: Simple and Profitable Strategies for Managers
by Eric WoodroofMeeting a need in the marketplace for information on how to operate a sustainable facility and reduce carbon emissions, the Green Facilities Handbook clearly explains why green business is good business and delineates practical strategies to green your operations in energy and management. The book explores issues in the greening of a facility, including janitorial considerations, fuel choices for fleets, and recycling. Additional information is provided on carbon reduction terminology, monitoring and reporting, and carbon trading as well as offset strategies. Special bonus chapters include valuable information on financing and procedures for “green” marketing.
Green Farming (A True Book (Relaunch))
by Daniel Johnson Priyanka LamichhaneEnvision a brighter future with this STEM-based subset of True Books.Thanks to the development of agriculture, our Earth can feed the almost 8 billion people that call it home. But the challenge facing us today is how to make the practice of large-scale farming sustainable. We have learned how to use alternative energies = like solar and wind power = to run our farms. We have also learned how to use the land and the animals on it in a more environmentally friendly way. Green Farming will show you how.ABOUT THE SERIES:What would a green future look like? Will trains and airplanes be powered by the sun? Will we have homes that have zero impact on the environment? The most pressing challenge facing us today is how to ensure a healthy Earth for ourselves and future generations. This STEM-based set of A True Books introduces students to the engineering innovations that can help us reach those goals. Interesting information is presented in a fun, friendly way = and in the simplest terms possible = and will inspire kids to start envisioning and enacting a more sustainable future.
Green FinTech: Impact Taxonomy for Swiss Fintech (Sustainable Finance)
by Karen Wendt Mathias HauserThis publication is the first one to develop a global impact taxonomy for FinTechs that aspire to fulfill the SDGs. The transformative arena of impact investing is witnessing significant shifts, through innovation and technology advances and through the emergence ad application of a new global societal contract. Finance and FinTech companies experience an increasing exposure to the evolving landscape of impact investing, the authors have identified an exigent need to construct a standardized Impact Taxonomy for FinTechs. This taxonomy is envisaged to create a uniform system, thereby enabling FinTechs to quantify their impact in a standardized manner. The inherent heterogeneity in the FinTechs industry and the still emergent implementation knowledge on "how to " implement the SDGs, necessitates the development of this taxonomy, which aims to enhance clarity, transparency, and comparability in measuring impacts, thus facilitating informed decision-making for investors, regulators, and the fintech entities themselves. This publication is conceived as an academic response to the specified need, coming up with the first framework of an impact taxonomy. This book explores the impact innovation potential of emerging technologies and machine learning in the FinTech industry from an entrepreneurial perspective. It maps the current initiatives, is substantiating a detailed examination and proposing a framework for a first global Impact Taxonomy tailored to the fintech sector. In the entrepreneurial sphere and analyses and develops strategies for identifying impact on governance and decision making and for managing risk.It provides practical advice on evaluating, strategizing and improving sustainability in the digital asset sector. This book offers a useful guide for finance professionals, entrepreneurs and early-stage investors.
Green Finance and Renewable Energy in ASEAN and East Asia (Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics)
by Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary Fukunari Kimura Han PhouminGreen Finance and Renewable Energy in ASEAN and East Asia edited by Phoumin, Taghizadeh-Hesary and Kimura provides several empirical policy-oriented studies with new data on ASEAN member states and East Asian economies that deal with innovative and market-based solutions for unlocking private investments in renewable energy projects. In the wake of COVID-19, the importance of innovative ways and policies for enhancing investments in renewable energy projects to achieve climate-related goals is highlighted. Chapters cover various aspects and means of green finance for renewable energy development, including identifying the financing barriers and solutions for mitigating them, cleantech finance and energy transition, green investment risks, green technology financing, market development, carbon taxation, green bonds, FinTech, and green digital finance. The book collectively provides policy recommendations for designing funding strategies for renewable energy development in ASEAN and East Asia. A valuable resource to end-users, policymakers, and market players in ASEAN, East Asia, and the rest of the world on access to finance for renewable energy development.
Green Finance in the European Union (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
by Marta Postuła Mariusz LipskiWhile global challenges continue to reshape the here and now, public and corporate finance management needs to adapt quickly to increase the efficiency of institutions, enterprises and policies to face our new reality. There are very few publications that offer a comprehensive approach to the financing of environmental protection activities by the European Union. This book explores this topic from various angles and levels, as well as highlighting the determinants that influence micro- and macro-level decisions in this area.It presents an in-depth and unique analysis of the sources of funding for environmental measures implemented by European Union institutions, against the backdrop of national expenditure by Member States, and analyses the plausibility of the adopted targets in the run-up to 2050, in the context of the war in Ukraine and ad hoc energy policy solutions. This book is a voice in an ongoing discussion among the community of practitioners and theoreticians on sources of financing for the energy transition to achieve independence from Russian sources in the quickest possible timeframe. It demonstrates that environmental measures cannot occur without the financial participation of economic actors and financial institutions, particularly the capital market, and further underscores the scale of involvement in environmental projects, as measured by the value of green loans and green bonds covered by European financial institutions. The authors offer policy recommendations for financing activities related to environmental policy, notably energy transition.This book will appeal to scholars, students and researchers of corporate finance, banking, strategic and public finance management as well as polic-ymakers and practitioners involved in green finance investments.
Green Futures: Navigating the Path to Environmental Resilience (Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance)
by Angappa Gunasekaran Debjani Mukherjee Vinay Kandpal Anshuman JaswalThis book presents a comprehensive examination of the complex journey toward achieving environmental resilience in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading voices from various fields to showcase the challenges and promising solutions in sustainability and green futures. Organized into thematic divisions, each chapter presents a different facet of environmental resilience, offering incisive analysis, creative techniques, and case studies from around the globe. The book explores the complex intersections of environmental, social, and economic elements, including climate change mitigation and adaptation, sustainable urban development, biodiversity conservation, and renewable energy technology. Contributions from distinguished scholars, policymakers, activists, and practitioners encourage interdisciplinary discourse and collaboration to address urgent environmental challenges. The book inspires readers to envision and actively contribute to a more sustainable and resilient future through rigorous research, visionary thinking, and practical ideas. Combining intellectual rigor with approachable prose, this book serves as an invaluable resource for students, scholars, policymakers, and anyone committed to creating a greener and more resilient society. It provides vital information and inspiration for navigating the path toward environmental resilience, whether dealing with the complexity of climate change, seeking innovative solutions for sustainable development, or advocating for environmental justice.
Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series)
by Tammy L. Lewis Kenneth A. GouldGreen Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening "richens and whitens," remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities. This is a timely and original book for all those studying environmental justice, urban planning, environmental sociology, and sustainable development as well as urban environmental activists, city planners and policy makers interested in issues of urban greening and gentrification.
Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
by E. WilliamsWhat do Brazil&’s top beauty brand, America&’s second-fastest-growing restaurant chain, and the world&’s third bestselling car have in common--besides achieving enormous success with revenue in the tens of billions? They are doing it all while holding to their convictions of implementing sustainable principles that help consumers live better lives. But they aren&’t the only ones. Green Giants examines nine companies--including Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, Tesla, General Electric, and more--who have established the blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow. Author Freya Williams, an early pioneer of the modern sustainable business movement, discovered six factors responsible for the overwhelming success of these nine socially responsible companies:The Iconoclastic LeaderDisruptive InnovationA Higher PurposeBuilt In, Not Bolted OnMainstream AppealNew Behavioral ContractPacked with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples, Green Giants serves as your blueprint for merging wild profitability with social responsibility.
Green Goes with Everything
by Sloan BarnettImagine if your best friend gave you vital information that could protect you and your family, and save you money, and help the planet. Imagine if you were given clear, simple choices, small changes that could have a big impact on your life. And you could still wear leather shoes and deodorant. You'd listen, right? Well, think of Today show contributor Sloan Barnett as that friend. A mother of three, a dedicated consumer advocate, Sloan gives us a fast, simple, down-toearth primer on the ways our homes are making us sick, and what we can all do to transform them into the safe sanctuaries we want and need them to be. Sloan exposes the toxic truth behind the household products we use every day -- from laundry detergent to toothpaste to lipstick. She explains how these and other seemingly benign stuff can harm us and our children. She offers an array of alternatives, and inspires us to see that we're never helpless: Every day, we have the power to make better, smarter, safer choices. Packed with common sense and sass, product picks and practical tips, Green Goes With Everything is for everyone who wants to live a healthier life.
Green Gold: Contested Meanings and Socio-Environmental Change in Argentine Yerba Mate Cultivation (SpringerBriefs in Latin American Studies)
by Adam S. DohrenwendThis book applies an approach to study the externalization of cost under capitalism in the production of Argentine yerba mate, an infusion with stimulant properties long used by indigenous peoples. Consumption in today’s globalized economy makes it difficult to understand the consequences of our actions across the globe. A political-ecological lens, informed by the work of Robert Sack and Ian Cook, can help guide an analysis that geographically reconstructs supply chains and reveal the realities of consumption. The use of yerba mate has become a cornerstone of Argentine society and identity, and yerba mate processors are working to expand exports globally. In Argentina’s Misiones Province, the heart of yerba mate production, the true costs of production are borne by the children, the impoverished laborers, and the environment of Argentina’s Atlantic Rainforest. These consequences of modernity, along with the efforts of an NGO to remedy them, are presented and assessed.
Green Governance
by David Bollier Burns H. WestonThe vast majority of the world's scientists agree: we have reached a point in history where we are in grave danger of destroying Earth's life-sustaining capacity. But our attempts to protect natural ecosystems are increasingly ineffective because our very conception of the problem is limited; we treat "the environment" as its own separate realm, taking for granted prevailing but outmoded conceptions of economics, national sovereignty, and international law. Green Governance is a direct response to the mounting calls for a paradigm shift in the way humans relate to the natural environment. It opens the door to a new set of solutions by proposing a compelling new synthesis of environmental protection based on broader notions of economics and human rights and on commons-based governance. Going beyond speculative abstractions, the book proposes a new architecture of environmental law and public policy that is as practical as it is theoretically sound.
Green Grades: Can Information Save the Earth?
by Graham BullockA comprehensive assessment and analysis of the validity, trustworthiness, and effectiveness, of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, LEED, and USDA Organic. Consumers are confronted with a confusing array of environmental ratings on products that range from refrigerators to shampoos. Is the information that these ratings represent trustworthy, accurate, or even relevant to environmental concerns? “Information optimists” believe that these “green grades” can play an important role in saving the planet. “Information pessimists” consider them a distraction from pursuing legislative and regulatory actions. In this book, Graham Bullock offers a comprehensive assessment and analysis of the effectiveness and validity of such environmental ratings as ENERGY STAR, USDA Organic, the Forest Stewardship Council, LEED, and the Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index. Bullock stakes out a position as an “information realist,” acknowledging both the contributions and the limitations of these initiatives. Drawing on interviews, case studies, and an original dataset of 245 environmental ratings and certifications, he examines what he calls the information value chain of green grades: organizational associations, content, methods, interfaces, and outcomes. He explores the relevance of the information to the issues; the legitimacy and accountability of sponsoring or cooperating organizations; the reliability of methods used to develop the information; the prominence and intelligibility of communication to the public; and the effects and effectiveness of the information after it emerges from the value chain. Bullock's analysis offers a realistic appraisal of the role of information-based environmental governance—its benefits and shortcomings—and its relation to other governance strategies.
Green Growth That Works: Natural Capital Policy and Finance Mechanisms from Around the World
by Gretchen Daily Lisa Mandle Zhiyun Ouyang James E. SalzmanRapid economic development has been a boon to human well‑being, but comes at a significant cost to the fertile soils, forests, coastal marshes, and farmland that support all life on earth. If ecosystems collapse, so eventually will human civilization. One solution is inclusive green growth—the efficient use of natural resources. Its genius lies in working with nature rather than against it. Green Growth That Works is the first practical guide to bring together pragmatic finance and policy tools that can make investment in natural capital both attractive and commonplace. Pioneered by leading scholars from the Natural Capital Project, this valuable compendium of proven techniques can guide agencies and organizations eager to make green growth work anywhere in the world.
Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia (Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics)
by Akihisa Mori Fumikazu YoshidaThe concept of green growth, coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development, is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate, oil, food, and financial crises. In East Asia, this concept is regarded as the key in transforming cheap-labour dependent, export-oriented industries towards a more sustainable development. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia examines the beginnings of low carbon, green growth in practice in East Asia and how effectively it has directed East Asian nations, especially Korea, China and Japan, to put environment and climate challenges as the core target zone for investment and growth. Special focus is paid to energy and international trade - areas in which these nations compete with pioneered nations of Europe and the United States to develop renewable energy industries and enhance their international competitiveness. On the basis of the lessons learned in East Asia, together with a comparison of Russia, this book discusses the applicability and limitations of this developmental approach taken by the developing nations and resource-rich emerging economies, including the conditions and contexts in which nations are able to transition into sustainable development through the use of low carbon, green growth strategies.
Green Growth, Green Profit
by Roland BergerGreen business is here. It is a multi billion business with enormous growth potential, driven by megatrends such as demographic change, climate change and urbanization. It is driving the transformation of existing businesses and changing the way customers and suppliers act, forcing them to rethink their business strategy.
Green Growth: Fighting Climate Change and Promoting Sustainability Goals with 'Green Growth' (essentials)
by Hans-Jörg NaumerIn this Springer essential, you will learn how market-driven methods, innovations, and investments can achieve "Green Growth" without forgetting the needs of the three billion people who already lack these essentials today. In the context of sustainability goals, the differences between "Green Growth" and "Degrowth" are explained, and why climate change cannot be stopped with a "war economy". Instead, the environment must be given a price tag. Through "Finance For Future", there is a chance to change the world for the better through one's own investments. A win-win-win situation for the environment, investors, and the economy. The author donates the proceeds from the sales to Hessen-Forst.
Green Heroes: From Buddha to Leonardo DiCaprio
by László ErdősThis book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector. The book describes inspiring personal achievements, and at the same time it provides readers with information regarding the history, the main directions and the ethical principles of the environmental movement. Some of the most important characters of the movement from all around the world, are included in the book. As well as the title characters, Buddha and Leonardo DiCaprio, other famous environmentalists like Albert Schweitzer, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall are discussed. Some of the less well-known but equally important environmentalists such as Chico Mendes, Bruno Manser, Henry Spira, Tom Regan or Rossano Ercolini are highlighted in the various chapters. The selection of characters represents all major branches within the green sector, ranging from medieval saints to Hollywood celebrities, from university professors to field activists, from politicians to philosophers, from ecofeminists to radicals.