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Beyond essentials: Leveraging enhanced water refill stations to advance campus sustainability

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Plastic beverage bottles are a significant contributor to marine plastic waste. Water refill stations (WRSs) and refillable water bottles are sustainable alternatives increasingly being adopted worldwide.
Takuro Uehara, Misuzu Asari
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Understanding household biogas failures in Nepal: A socio-technical failure mode analysis

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Household biogas offers a sustainable alternative to traditional biomass-based cooking in developing countries. However, their long-term functionality is often hindered by technical, socioeconomic, and institutional barriers.
Navin Kumar Jha, Sunil Prasad Lohani
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Consumption Response to Expected Future Income [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper shows empirical evidence in favor of forward-looking household consumption--that consumption today depends directly on household-specific ex-ante expectations of future income. This analysis is unique in using a direct consumption measure combined with an ex-ante household-specific measure of expected future income, constructed from detailed
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Consumer preferences for second-life electric vehicle batteries across multiple applications

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
The growing shift from internal combustion engine vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) is pivotal for reducing CO2 emissions, but it also raises new environmental and resource concerns.
Jun Osawa
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Beyond the fields: Unravelling the social consequences of green pea protein production from a Swedish perspective

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Despite legume-based proteins being more environmentally sustainable compared to conventional meat proteins, these products need to be backed up by socially sustainable supply chains, as upstream and downstream social impacts may hinder their overall ...
Edoardo Desiderio, Karin Östergren
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Development and validation of the environmentally sustainable consumer behavior index (ESCBI): A composite tool to measure and advance private-sphere pro-environmental consumer behaviors

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Global consumption patterns are increasingly unsustainable, driving climate change and biodiversity loss; however, comprehensive tools for measuring and tracking environmentally sustainable consumer behaviors (ESCB) are lacking. This study addresses this
Laura Ebbinghaus, Dominik Georgi, Marcel Zbinden, Larissa Dahinden   +3 more
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Modeling the Consumption Response to the CARES Act

, 2020
To predict the effects of the 2020 U.S. "CARES" act on consumption, we extend a model that matches responses of households to past consumption stimulus packages. The extension allows us to account for two novel features of the coronavirus crisis. First, during the lockdown, many types of spending are undesirable or impossible.
Carroll, Chris, Crawley, Edmund S., Slacalek, Jirka, White, Matthew N.   +3 more
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Innovative pathways to green building development: Integrating technology, policy, and industry collaboration

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Green building development has emerged as a pivotal strategy for achieving sustainability in China's rapidly evolving construction sector. This study examines the convergence of digital technologies, drivers, barriers, and promotional strategies that ...
Mei Dong, Agyemang Kwasi Sampene, Cai Li, Francis Kyere   +3 more
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Adoption of voluntary sustainability standards in Australia's agri-food systems: primary producers' challenges and opportunities

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
As awareness of the environmental and social impacts of agri-food systems grows, the adoption of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) is promoted to encourage sustainable farming practices. However, the adoption of VSS remains limited.
Francesco Tacconi, Peggy Schrobback, Enayat A. Moallemi   +2 more
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Plant proteins for human consumption – from local to global opportunities and challenges in a full value chain context

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Environmental concerns together with a growing global population and health benefits call for an increased use of plant proteins in the human diet. This review paper summarizes opportunities and challenges of such an increased use and reveals the way ...
Eva Johansson, Georg Carlsson, Åsa Grimberg, William R. Newson, Thomas Prade, Sara Spendrup, Sven-Erik Svensson   +6 more
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