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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Green IS"”.
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
This thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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Cinema's Green is Gold: The Commodification of Irishness in Film
This thesis is concerned with the manners in which Irishness has become highly desirable and commodified, and the manifestations that commodification has taken in Irish film. In recognition that the Irish American diaspora holds a special regard for Irishness, I will explore reasons for the allure …
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How green is green? : Conflict and collaboration among environmental advocacy groups
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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How green is your hotel? : an examination of environmentally friendly practices of the Phuket hotel industry
The global hospitality industry is currently facing many challenges from the external business environment. These include the effects of global recession, a downturn in overall trade and an increased demand for service excellence from a much more quality conscious clientele. A more recent …
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A model for teaching green information systems in higher education
The purpose of this study was to respond to a call to the Information Systems (IS) discipline to provide solutions to address global challenges such as the seventh Millennium Development Goal of ensuring an interconnectedness of society and the environment. Many academic disciplines have recognised …
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When Interacting Online Leads to Taking Action Offline: Examining the Effects of Online Persuasion on IS Users’ Pro-Environmental Behaviours
… towards the role of information systems (IS) as a vehicle to address environmental issues, IS researchers and practitioners have strived to leverage advanced Green IS innovations to persuade people to engage in environmentally responsible practices and support pro-environmental …
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Harnessing alternative post-growth development pathways in Northampton: learning from innovative green information systems in Bristol and China
This research project is questioning the material and immaterial mechanisms that are contributing to the production and reproduction of the pro-growth order and related Imperial Mode of Living (Brand & Wissen, 2015). Using the concept of degrowth as a key normative anchor, the researcher has …
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Imperial Green
Imperial Green is a 66-minute experimental autofiction film by filmmaker Zachary Lacosse, loosely structured as a reimagining of his life prior to relocating to Toronto. Set in Metrotown, a suburban district of Burnaby, British Columbia, the film foregrounds a place that has exerted a formative …
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Such an Effortful Green
"Such an Effortful Green" is a book of fragmented voices and relationships. An effort of the book is to unite the mind and the body; to define the body by what exists in the mind. Because much of the book is occupied with thinking about space in a mind-body union, the book contains space in its …
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Cost and benefit of energy efficient buildings
A common misconception among developers and policy-makers is that "sustainable buildings" may not be financially justified. However, this report strives to show that building green is cost-effective and does make financial sense today. Though green buildings typically have a higher upfront cost …
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The chemistry of some derivatives of pyrrolidine green and pyrrolidine violet
… dyes have been synthesised from their respective leuco-bases or carbinols. The terminal groups and substituents were chosen to give a good variation in structural and electronic properties. The rates of alkaline hydrolysis of the dyes at various hydroxide ion …
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Compost as a Growth Substrate for Woody Ornamental Nursery Production
Peat is an expensive, environmentally nonrenewable component of media used to grow woody ornamental trees. Leaf compost from the city of Bowling Green is an inexpensive renewable resource that was substituted for peat in soil-less container media. Seeds of three commercially important tree species, …
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An investigation of the financial benefits of green buildings
… as they play a contributing role in gas emissions, waste disposal and energy use. The literature review and results of the quantitative research amongst experts like facility and building managers, leasing agents, finance managers and project managers in the property sector formed the basis …
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Identification of a thermal maturation high, revised maturity map, and production trends of the Late Devonian Duvernay Formation, Alberta, Canada.
… in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin is a prolific shale reservoir that has been developed since 2010 and produced 250 million barrels of oil equivalent. Regional thermal maturity trends across central and southern Alberta published in the literature are poorly understood and …
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The effects of snake venoms as cytotoxins on selected prostate cancer cell lines
Cancer is expected to claim 9 million deaths world-wide by the year 2020. Although there has been an increase in the sophistication of current therapeutic strategies, 40% of patients are still likely to die from the disease. Novel anticancer compounds are needed. Snake venoms may represent a …
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Evaluating methiozolin programs for golf putting greens and investigating potential modes of action
Annual bluegrass is a winter annual grass that is problematic on golf putting greens due to its light green color, prolific seedhead production and intolerance to stress. On creeping bentgrass putting greens, herbicides for annual bluegrass control are limited. A new herbicide, methiozolin, …
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Optimizing Weed Suppression Via Cover Crop and Herbicide Programs in the Mid-Atlantic
… until cash crop planting, so-called "planting green," is often part of the management and is an evolution from the traditional termination timing prior to cash crop planting. To scientifically scrutinize these production systems, three research objectives were developed. These objectives …
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New incision rates on the Colorado River system based on cosmogenic burial dating of terraces : implications for a transient knickpoint at Lees Ferry and differential uplift of the Rocky Mountains
The Green and Colorado Rivers comprise the drainage system of the western slope of the Colorado Rockies and Colorado Plateau. Comparison of river profiles and rates of incision between these rivers provides a natural laboratory for resolving controls on river evolution. Disequilibrium profiles in …
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Evaluating residential satisfaction with an innovative dual water supply system in water sensitive urban development
The Australian water industry is facing two major challenges: a rise in water demand due to a growing population and a decrease in rainfall availability due to a drying climate. This situation has triggered a re-evaluation of traditional water schemes and promoted consideration of alternatives for …