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Sustainability, Feminism and the Search for Alternatives [PDF]
Development, 2011 Alejandra Scampini works for the Association for Women's Rights AWID based in Uruguay. Before joining AWID she worked for ActionAid as the Women's Rights coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean. Alejandra also worked with REPEM for more than ten years where she gained vast experience in women's rights, education and development advocacy.
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Sustainable Fashion Alternatives
The global fashion industry is undergoing a critical transition, with the adverse impacts of fast fashion highlighting the need for sustainable alternatives. This chapter investigates Indian handloom and khadi textiles as viable pathways toward sustainable fashion, focusing on the evolving role of Indian consumers in their revival. Drawing on empiricalArun Kumar Gaikwad +2 more
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Sustaining the Local: An Alternative Approach to Sustainable Design
Architectural Design, 2015By implication, the developmentof experimental architecture that is responsive to the local context can have sustainable benefits for the natural environment and adjacent community. Here, architect and writer Terri Peters, who has a PhD in sustainable building transformation, picks up the gauntlet and asks how the notion of localness might be able to ...
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Earthships: sustainable housing alternative
International Journal of Sustainable Design, 2009This paper critiques an obscure form of sustainable architecture that addresses many of the environmental, social and economic challenges facing humanity. It focuses on the work of architect, Michael Reynolds, who has been experimenting with radical house designs and construction techniques over the past three and half decades.
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The Sustainability of Schooling and Its Alternatives
2018Mass schooling is a peculiar modern phenomenon with a smaller role in education than many are willing to admit. Schools are not necessary. If they are to continue, they need to be justified—to policy-makers and to the public, and most of all to the staff and pupils in schools.
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Services as an Alternative Path to Sustainability [PDF]
, 2012 Transition to a service oriented business model makes sense in economic terms; it allows the company to enjoy a triple beneficial effect: a higher profit margin, coming from more transactions, with less uncertainty. The proposed approach aims to examine whether the transition from a product manufacturing business model to a service-oriented one can be ...
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Alternative Fertilizers and Sustainable Agriculture
2019Sustainable food production requires application of fertilizers including macro and micronutrients in arable land. The fertilizers application in agricultural practices has significantly increased the production of food, fiber and other plant products. However, a significant portion of nitrogen (40–60%), phosphorus (80–90%) and potash (30–50%) applied ...
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Sustainable Agriculture-a Valid Alternative
Outlook on Agriculture, 1992The concepts of sustainable agriculture have been much debated in recent years. The emphasis in this paper is on alternative farming practices that optimize on-farm techniques to control pests and satisfy nutrient requirements; and that address broader ecological and societal goals.
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Sustainable alternatives for carbonyl reduction
2019Carbonyl reduction is a key process in chemistry, both in academic and industrial research. In the context of biomass valorization, C=O reduction shines as an essential upgrading pathway. Indeed, most biomass-derived molecules are naturally oxygen-rich in contrast to petroleum-based chemicals. H2 gas is the most ideal reductant in terms of atom-economy.
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