Sustainable alternative composites using waste vegetable oil based resins [PDF]
, 2019 Laminates were produced with epoxy resins from waste vegetable oil (WVO) intended for the manufacturing of environmentally-friendly alternatives for the composites industry.
Coles, Stuart R. +3 more
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Alternative versus conventional attitudes in higher agricultural education [PDF]
, 2003 From radical positions it is argued that it will take paradigmatic transformations to develop a sustainable agriculture and that values and attitudes have to be changed.
Kaltoft, Pernille, Rasmussen, Jesper
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Development of an extrudable paste to build mycelium-bound composites
Materials & Design, 2020 Mycelium-bound composites are promising materials for sustainable packaging, insulation, fashion, and architecture. However, moulding is the main fabrication process explored to date, strongly limiting the ability to design the complex shapes that could ...
Eugene Soh +5 more
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Urban Wind: An Alternative for Sustainable Cities
Energies, 2022 The climate emergency has intensified the search for the generation of electricity from renewable energies in order to turn cities into sustainable cities. Small-scale wind power offers new opportunities for decentralized electricity production, avoiding
Isabel Cristina Gil-García +2 more
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Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle [PDF]
, 2015 © The Author(s) 2015. This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups.
Eden, Sally
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Alternative Mulches for Sustainable Greenhouse Tomato Production
Agronomy, 2022 Soil mulching has advantages for horticultural crops, from both agronomic and phytosanitary points of view. The most common material used is polyethylene (PE); however, promising alternatives from the circular economy exist, such as straw (ST) and ...
Jose Ignacio Marín-Guirao +3 more
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ALTERNATIVE FINANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [PDF]
The Central European Review of Economics and Management, 2018 Objective: The aim of this article is to evaluate alternative finance for the implementation of the basic assumptions and goals of sustainable development.Methodology: Using the comparative analysis the most frequent mentioned forms of alternative finance have been assessed.
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Reduction of conflictivity as a prerequisite for sustainable construction [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The transformation of project management approaches and business processes organization in crisis conditions requires rethinking and supplementing the concept of sustainable construction in terms of the socio-economic component, taking into account an ...
Zaytseva L.I.
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Exploring Possibilities to Enhance Food Sovereignty within the Cowpea Production-Consumption Network in Northern Ghana [PDF]
, 2009 Over the last years an important focus in the combat of hunger and malnutrition,particularly in Africa has been food security. This article explores possibilities for enhancing food sovereignty, as an alternative concept to food security and an ...
Frempong, G. +3 more
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Assessing Mg84Cu16 as a novel PCM for high-temperature energy storage: Focus on thermal stability and material compatibility [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesThe development of efficient latent heat storage materials for high-temperature thermal energy systems is essential to improving the performance and reliability of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants.
El Karim Yassine +3 more
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