Regional Green Building Case Study Project: A post‐occupancy study of LEED projects in Illinois Year 1 Final Report Fall 2009 A collaboration between With the generous support of Acknowledgements Several organizations and individuals contributed to the success of this project. Please accept our gratitude for helping to make this project possible: Project Supporter Grand Victoria Foundation Project Partners U.S. Green Building Council‐Chicago Chapter
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amount of power and produced large amount of carbon dioxides annually. Therefore‚ conventional building is one of the sources of global warming. Green building concept is an effort made to reduce the impacts of conventional building. Green building is a space and energy efficient home which can offer coziness and healthy living environment to its peoples. The green building used the sustainable resources. It is considered as sustainable resources because it can maximise our resources by taking from the
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2008 APEC Clean Development Conference – The Current Applications and Future Promotion of Green Chemistry for Sustainable Development National Tsing-Hua University‚ Hsinchu‚ Chinese Taipei Dec.15.2008 Green Chemistry for the Improvement of Human Welfare Gwo-Dong Roam ‚ Wan-Yi Wu‚ Chung-Han Chiou‚ Chung-Wen Yen Office of Sustainable Development Environmental Protection Administration‚ Chinese Taipei Tel: 02-23822841; E-mail: gdroam@sun.epa.gov.tw Viewpoints & Experiences: . Roadmap:
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non-English speaking student named Farah‚ goes on a field trip to an orchard to pick apples and make cider. Farah is unsure of her new situation at first‚ but quickly warms up after enjoying her experience and makes new friends. While reading One Green Apple‚ I thought about my experiences with speech. On my fifth birthday‚ my family moved from Texas to Virginia. My accent was so strong no one could understand me. I was put into speech therapy where I stayed for eight years. Now‚ I don’t have an
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Green Christianity; a sustainable future through faith Environmentalism is an advocacy toward protecting the natural environment from destruction or pollution. This is certainly not a static movement. Instead‚ it is constantly evolving in response to new scientific discoveries‚ leading to conscious awareness of an earth in danger. In the 1970s and 80s‚ environmentalism aimed at a candid approach by simply trying to preserve certain resources and nature reserves. Today‚ forward-looking environmentalists
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and videoconferencing equipment reduces air travels and the improvement of collaborative work quality. 3-what are the arguments against corporate social responsibility? Corporate social responsibilities that lowers economic efficiency and profit‚ green washing‚ increases costs in organization and social environment‚ imposes hidden costs passed onto stake holders‚ requires skills business may lacks‚ places responsibility on business rather than individuals‚ or government. 4-why should firms be engaged
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INTRODUCTION Green awareness is not a new topic from last few years. Most interesting thing is HR professionals in the organization are not only aware about this rather they start working for it. HR professionals in organization can develop a powerful social conscience and green sense of responsibility internal and external customers‚ stakeholders‚ partners etc. Recent times‚ consumers demand ethics and environmental credentials as a top priority. Society and business see their agenda align. HR
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Functions of the schedule of reinforcement in organization The schedule of reinforcement must be has in an organization. It is very important to any of the organization. Schedule of reinforcement is also an important component of learning process. A schedule of reinforcement is normally a rule stating that an organization’s instances of behavior can be reinforced. An organization’s behavior is acquired whether is fast or slow can be determine by the schedule of reinforcement. In addition‚ the strength
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Schedule Management Plan Introduction It is critical that any new project be kept on a schedule and have time frames and milestones along the way. Without a properly executed schedule the likelihood of failure rises exponentially. Schedules provide not only the project team a common operational picture but they are also used to inform sponsors and stakeholders. The main purpose of the Schedule Management Plan is to layout which approach the project team will utilize. Additional items in this plan
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Researchers Louis P. Hagopian‚ Wayne w. Fisher and Steven Legacy ask the question is it necessary to begin with a dense schedule before fading to a lean schedule‚ or would treatment be as effective using a lean schedule at the start. In the study‚ they attempted to replicate the findings of Vollmer. Vollmer’s findings were using noncontingent reinforcement(NCR) to treat self-injury and used attention to maintaining the correct behaviors. The thought is that if NCR could be applied to self-harm maybe
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