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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"sustainable products"”.
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Bioplastics from C1 Gases - Substitute Sustainable Products for Polymer Coated Steel
… it is necessary to recycle these gases into sustainable products. Tata Steel utilises coating to prevent corrosion by forming a barrier that deteriorates before the steel underneath. Given that their existing coatings, like the majority of coatings on the market, are derived from …
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An Investigation of Sustainable Product Purchase Behavior: A Social Cognitive Perspective of Consumer Action
<p>Environmentally friendly products have been available since the 1970s receiving both praise and skepticism on the part of consumers. More recently, product focus has shifted towards a product‘s social, economic, and environmental concerns (sustainable products). While consumers admit they would …
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Lovable sustainability : from residential solar PV systems to eco-feedback designs
Traditional research in sustainable product design strongly emphasizes the material and energy domains and aims to reduce resource consumption and waste production in the manufacturing process and at the end of the product lifecycle. Less attention has been paid to products' environmental impact in …
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Feelings of doing good for myself or others: Discussing effects of self-conscious emotions on sustainable consumption
<p>Consumers have increasing interests in sustainable products, but the actual purchase rate is relatively low. To find the reasons of this gap, previous studies focus primarily on cognitive factors of behavioral change based on the theory of planned behavior. Little research, however, discusses …
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Rural entrepreneurship for sustainable rural development with conscious capitalism
… of the benefits of moulded fiber packaging products and establishing and manufacturing company of paper based sustainable products for the Indian subcontinent markets. The purpose of this study was to explore the current environment of establishing a paper-based packaging products …
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The education of undergraduate product designers in the principles and practice of sustainable design.
… to ensure that their designs are intrinsically sustainable and do not add to the growing pressures on the environment. Developing sustainable products requires designers to be aware of the conflicting issues and constraints that need to be taken into account as part of the design process. …
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Developing a Ranking System for a Product’s Fitness in the Circular Economy - A Case Study in Modular Ski Poles
As the importance of designing sustainable products grows, the importance of developing in tandem with the Circular Economy also grows. This paper presents and demonstrates a multi criteria decision making method of ranking products in their fitness for the circular economy. This methodology uses …
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Exploring The Market Potential Of Non-Timber Forest Products In The United States
… on market opportunities for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), and the challenges and opportunities associated with their commercialization, based on the following questions: (1) What are the barriers and enabling factors affecting the value chains of NTFPs, and what are the opportunities to …
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Design: Encouraging Sustainability Through Persuasion
… an innovative business plan aiming to encourage sustainable purchasing. To uncover the limitations in current design practices, firstly, represented examples of sustainable design were reviewed. Then, in an attempt to bridge the gap between sustainability and design commercialization, the …
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The role of ecodesign in circular economy to improve the performance of enterprises in the fashion industry: a systematic review of literature
… of circular economy thanks to the design of more sustainable products that can return to the production cycle and/or be recycled so as to reduce environmental impacts from the first stage of their life cycle. In addition, methodologies and tools driving companies toward ecodesign were identified. …
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Why go green? To save this planet, or to advocate your ego?
… of benefits can be induced 2) more favorable sustainable product evaluations and persuasion are likely to occur when people’s self-regulatory orientations and their construal level of benefits fit with one another 3) the effect of self-regulatory goal depend on construal level of benefits 4) …
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Exploratory Data Analysis using Clusters and Stories
… studying the bat biosonar system and designing sustainable products. In the area of storytelling, we develop algorithms that can generate stories using distance, clique, and syntactic constraints. We explore the use of storytelling for studying document collections in the biomedical literature …
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Discouraging the use of single-use plastics through graphic design strategies
… begin to add up. Despite advertisements for more sustainable products like metal straws, re-usable shopping bags, and ceramic coffee containers, the convenient plastic options are still being used. Despite news articles regularly showing the damage caused by plastic pollution (images of floating …
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Large area cellulose nanocrystal self-assembly: towards sustainable pigments
To meet the increasing demand for sustainable products, one can look to nature to scout new functional materials. For instance, the most brilliant and striking colours in plants are obtained using cellulose nanofibrils organised in helicoidal architectures. Interestingly, similar helicoidal …
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Variable Annuity -- Laps Behavior
… the risks associated with variable annuity products. The findings offer significant implications for the design and pricing of VAs, contributing to the development of more sustainable products that meet the needs of both insurers and policyholders.</p>
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Enacting standards in organic agriculture
… to differentiate organic from conventional products. I describe the ways in which organic standards are enacted by farmers, certification bodies, policy makers and market actors. I suggest that standards provide process injunctions for farmers, requiring them to configure their farms in …
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Custom mechanisms for tunable material deposition
… digital fabrication of larger-scale prototypes, sustainable products and architectural structures inspired by nature in Fab Lab settings.
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Smart customization : making evidence-based environmental decisions
… manufacture, distribution, and consumer use of products that are mass customized (MC) or produced "on-demand" and tailored to individual end-user preferences. Traditional mass production (MP) models take advantage of economies of scale by efficiently producing multiple copies of the same …
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The impact of consumers' sustainability consciousness on sustainable purchase intention amongst Gen Z in the South African fashion retail market
… Conscious consumerism is a driving force behind sustainable consumption as these consumers play a strong role when influencing business practices. Although many retailers have adapted responsible procedures by offering sustainable products to their consumers, there is a lack of research on …
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