The role of modern technologies in reducing cost of buildings towards sustainability "An Approach to measure the efficiency of performance". Abstract. Egypt took the first step towards developing a local assessment tool in 2009 by establishing the Egyptian Green Building Council (EGBE). Egyptian government finally developed the Green Pyramid Rating System (GPRS) after the past two decades effort to improve building energy efficiency and address green house gas emissions;
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In 2010 Accenture produced a report in collaboration with the United Nations Global Compact titled‚ "A New Era of Sustainability: CEO reflections on progress to date‚ challenges ahead and the impact of the journey towards a sustainable economy." The major finding: that 93 percent of the 766 CEOs believed that sustainability will be important or very important to the future success of their company. That’s the good news. The challenge is the reality of operationalizing this critical business strategy
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your understanding of organisational change towards greater sustainability? Discuss Introduction Organisations are faced with new changes constantly. In order to remain successful and respected‚ it is important that they respond to changing situations appropriately (Waddel‚ Cummings and Worley‚ C 2011). There are many factors that influence an organisation to change; the one that this piece will review is sustainability. Sustainability is a current trend in which organisations are being pushed
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Mark: A- Essay Qs. For understandable reasons‚ the founders of sociology paid little attention to ‘’ environmental issues’’. However modern-day sociologists do. Discuss the sociology of the environment in terms of globalisation‚ consumption and sustainability. Introduction Over the course of this essay I will address the area of environmental sociology in two parts. Firstly‚ I hope to explain why the field of environmental sociology was not an area of relevance to the founders of sociological thought
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whereby the spotlight was focused on reconciliation of environment and economic development. (Sustainable Development‚ 2012). This essay discusses how aviation industries efforts to a sustainable future are mere tokenism. Cited by Daley B. et al‚ ‘Sustainability means balancing economic‚ social and environmental benefits and costs of development‚ both for present and future generation’. The term ‘Sustainable’ came to better light in the UN publication “Our Common Future” from 1987‚ better known as the
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Sustainability Describe six different features of the natural environment that must be considered at the planning stage of a project. Water Quality: Water for human consumption is extracted from our local reservoirs‚ rivers and boreholes. It needs to be treated to be made potable water. It is then distributed from a system of pipes across the UK. Water cannot contain any form of bacteria as this would affect people health. This is why it’s important to protect local reservoirs‚ rivers and boleshole
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Megan Gardiner Nancy Lloyd GLE 120 03 8 May 2014 Introduction: People are faced with decisions every day and they have the choice to take the high road but often times they chose to take the low road. When it comes to decision making taking the high road is choosing the ethical option while the low road is making the decision to take the unethical option. The article The Psychology of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things‚ by Chana Joffe-Walt and Alix Speigal gets to the bottom of why people‚
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ver BAT Social Report www.bat.com 4/7/02 2:13 pm Page 2 BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO SOCIAL REPORT 2001/2002 01 BAT Social Report 4/7/02 1:51 pm Page 1 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Foreword Martin Broughton‚ Chairman‚ British American Tobacco p.l.c. Paul Adams‚ Managing Director‚ British American Tobacco p.l.c. British American Tobacco at a glance Our approach to social reporting Stakeholder dialogue Seeking best practice: independent standards‚ verification
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Belz (2009) states that the sustainability in marketing is the conventional marketing view. This can be explained that the sustainable marketing may be developed and holding the nature of the consumption by generating the social and environment value. In the order word‚ the aim of sustainability marketing tries to adopt the customer value‚ social value and environment value. To explore the sustainability in marketing‚ the report will focus on the basic of sustainability marketing‚ examining the four
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 1 Environmental Sustainability Kim Saia Baton Rouge Community College ENVS 201 Professor Deadra Mackie May 8‚ 2013 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Environmental Sustainability Sustainability creates and maintains the conditions needed to support us now and in future generations by working to ensure we continue to have the water‚ materials‚ and resources to protect us and the environment ("What is sustainability?‚" n.d.‚ para. 1). Environmental sustainability should be
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