Green Ideas Research Articles

Green governance structure, ownership characteristics, and corporate financing constraints

Existing studies on firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) have mainly focused on specific behavior levels aimed at exchanging resources, and have not paid adequate attention to long-term social responsibility orientation and top-level institutional design level. To address this gap, the present study first builds an evaluation system of the green governance structure based on green ideas, values, strategy, and organization arrangement from the perspective of top-level institutional design, and creates a green governance structure index. Chinese listed companies in 2015–2017 are taken as examples to investigate the relationship between green governance structure level and corporate financial constraints. Through empirical analysis, this study finds that firms with better green governance structure face lower financing constraints. Taking into consideration the effect of ownership characteristics, the shareholding ratio of institutional investors and the degree of equity balance are both found to further strengthen the negative impact of green governance structure level on financing constraints. An extensive analysis revealed that regional economic development and law environment may promote the relationship between green governance structure and firms’ financial constraints. This novel paper enriches the existing theoretical studies on green governance, and it offers a new way for firms to gain financing support that has extensive theoretical and practical significance.

Pedestrian ways arrangement to support the green campus idea: lesson from UNDIP Tembalang campus

Providing more space for non -motorized transportation will change the orientation of how people use the road. The first step of changing the orientation of city development which is car-oriented to people-oriented is how to look at the overall existing road users. Accessibility is the basic part of how an area develops, including on a university development. UI Greenmetric as a parameter of university achieving how it can be called a green campus. Not only designing a good campus, but the ‘sustainable’ policy also cannot be separated from creating a comfortable environment. The current condition of Diponegoro University's open green space reaches less than 60%, while Undip Tembalang already has a pedestrian lane, but is not utilized properly. The research method uses descriptive analysis of the literature articles on how important the pedestrian path that has been done at other universities. The results show that improving and changing the road design effect. Relating to the comfort of people walk affects how the pedestrian path had used. The official regulations from the university also have an impact on reducing the use of motorized vehicles. Improving accessibility for students to use public transportation and non-motorized transportation could reduce emissions in the campus's environment.

Energy Enterprise Management in China under the Perspective of Green Development

With the aggravation of climate change, energy enterprises will gradually assume more and more responsibilities for environmental protection and energy conservation. How to incorporate green ideas into their business management has become an important theme. After reviewing the past background and policies, based on the supply chain model established in the past literature, this paper determines the more important indicators that affect the sustainable development of the company, and based on this, puts forward the points that should be paid attention to in the future management of the enterprise. First, energy companies should incorporate green ideas into their corporate training to raise the morale of their employees. Second, through strict control of upstream and downstream suppliers and the establishment of environmental requirements, so as to improve the green degree of the entire supply chain. Third, in the current society with advanced information technology, the operation of information means to achieve the goal of green management should be the focus of future management.

Corporate social responsibility - ethical commitment to the consumer, the environment, the society

Relevance. Organizations' social responsibility in the market is manifested through the quality of the services they provide, consumer information, care for their health, safety and the integration of environmental requirements into the activities of the organizations. Employees are one of the key stakeholders, and their approach is one way of exposing the organization's CSR issues. From the point of view of organizations' economic responsibility, it is important to strive for competitiveness of goods and services, efficient management and economical use of resources (Carden and Boyd, 2011, etc.). Ethical social sphere emphasizes honest cooperation with stakeholders, taking into account public expectations and customer information. Pedersen (2010), Homburg et al. (2013), Segal (2011) discuss topical issues of social responsibility that define an organization's relationship with its stakeholders in pursuit of organizational customer loyalty and trust and socio-economic justice in the community. In the field of environment protection, the integration of environmental protection legislation into the activities of the company, reduction of pollution, improvement of operational activities, continuous monitoring, anticipation and implementation of necessary changes is important (Delmas et al. 2013, Claydon (2009), Valdes-Vasquez (2011), Fleming (2017), Allen (2016), Shin (2015), etc. A survey of CSR in the market was conducted in small and medium-sized enterprises. 175 respondents participated in the research. Research aim. Assess the social responsibility of organizations towards consumers, the environment and the community in terms of employees. Research methods. Analysis of scientific literature, questionnaire survey. Research results and conclusions. Responsibility in the market for the quality of services provided was assessed on the basis of the following statements: at my workplace there is paid great attention to quality of service (production), effort is made to deliver on our promises to our customers, quality of services declared within the organization does not differ from reality, product quality control system exists in the workplace, consumer complaints are being investigated and the findings improve quality, and not only the legislation is used in customer relations, but generally accepted morals are rated only moderately. Responsibility in the market according to consumer information, caring about their health and safety has been assessed by employees to what extent these statements correspond to the reality: organizations provide detailed product information; I enjoy the services and products of my organization; my organization is concerned with the health of consumers when providing services, products; there has been no evidence that the services (products) provided by my workplace have been detrimental to the welfare of consumers and my organization does not manipulate consumer confidence. From the employees' point of view, the investigated organizations have a higher than average level of responsibility. The lack of responsibility is reflected in the fact that employees disagree that organizations do not manipulate consumer confidence. Promoting environmental protection is important in terms of market responsibility.Responsibility in the market is defined by these statements: the organization uses technologies that comply with organic standards; organizes environmental initiatives; uses only tools and technologies that reduce the negative impact on the environment; the organization takes care of the ecologic education of its employees, the organization takes care of all waste to be recycled, the waste is sorted, and green ideas are encouraged financially in the workplace. Having assessed the respondents' attitudes towards meeting environmental requirements, it could be indicated that the surveyed organizations have a medium level of responsibility, while employees indicate that organizations do not financially promote green ideas or contribute to the organization of environmental initiatives. Based on the results obtained there was ascertained higher than average level of social responsibility of organizations in the market, therefore, in the case under review, the activities of organizations in the context of applying social responsibility principles should be improved according to all categories defining social responsibility in the market.

A Collage of Dead Mothers: On Stephen Daldry's The Hours.

The Hours, a film directed by Stephen Daldry in 2002, creates a collage of three women: Virginia Woolf, whom we meet in the year 1923, in the middle of writing what is to become the novel Mrs. Dalloway; Laura Brown, whom we encounter in 1951, in the midst of her reading the novel Mrs. Dalloway; and Clarissa Vaughan, who lives in New York in 2001 and who is affectionately called "Mrs. Dalloway" throughout the film. This paper's analysis focuses on this literary collage, including a writer (Virginia Woolf), a reader (Laura Brown), and a protagonist (Clarissa Vaughan), using André Green's idea of The Dead Mother Complex as well as Kristeva's and Pontalis's ideas concerning the melancholy of language in order to explain the specific attack on language and love that characterizes the film's main characters and that may explain their terminal choices.

Highly effective and green microwave catalytic oxidation degradation of nitrophenols over Bi2O2CO3 based composites without extra chemical additives

A novel treatment technology of microwave catalytic oxidation degradation (MCOD) for nitrophenols (NPs) wastewater over green catalysts of gC3N4Bi2O2CO3 and SiCBi2O2CO3 was developed. This process is eco-friendly because the only used Bi2O2CO3 is non-toxic (which can be used as stomach medicine), and no heavy metal pollution exists in g-C3N4 and SiC. The results show that these Bi2O2CO3 based composites exhibited superior catalytic activity for the degradation of para-NP, as well as ortho-NP, with optimal removal ratio of 98.96%. In addition, the proportion of Bi2O2CO3 and irradiation time were the key parameters that had greatly influenced the degradation performance. Moreover, O2− was confirmed to be primary contributor for the degradation, which was different from our previous work that OH was the main specie in carbon loaded metal oxide system. That is to say, the type of oxidative specie may be controlled by the type of catalyst system. Besides, separation and transfer efficiency of the charge carriers could be enhanced by the heterojunctions fabricated in the band structures of the composites. This work not only demonstrated that the Bi2O2CO3 based composites coupled with MW irradiation can generate reactive oxidative species(ROS) which can degrade NPs high-effectively, but also developed a new and green idea for treating refractory industrial wastewater.

Optimization of hydrothermal pretreatment for co-utilization of xylose and glucose of cassava anaerobic residue for producing ethanol

Abstract The development of a process that could recover biofuel from industrial cellulose waste can not only reduce the negative environmental impacts by using fossil fuels, but also bring a green idea for the waste's disposing. In this study, hydrothermal pretreatment was optimized for cassava anaerobic residue, a cellulosic waste from cassava ethanol industry, to co-utilize xylose and glucose for producing bioethanol. The effect of the main pretreatment conditions, namely, temperature, solid content and time, was explored for the highest recovery of xylose in prehydrolysate and glucose in enzymatic hydrolysate. The single factor experiment results showed that the conditions for maximum xylose recovery in prehydrolysate and glucose recovery in enzymatic hydrolysate were 60 °C, 75 min, 10% solids and 160 °C, 75 min, 10% solids, respectively. Whereafter, response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to further optimize the pretreatment conditions for the maximum theoretical ethanol production through utilizing both xylose and glucose. A treatment at 163 °C, for 59 min and with 9.5% solids was found optimal, with the highest ethanol production of 20.2 mg·g−1 raw material. Furthermore, in order to assess the impacts of the pretreatment on cassava anaerobic residue, the changes in crystallinity and morphology for untreated and pretreated solids were investigated.

Colorless green ideas do sleep furiously: gradient acceptability and the nature of the grammar

AbstractIn their recent paper, Lau, Clark, and Lappin explore the idea that the probability of the occurrence of word strings can form the basis of an adequate theory of grammar (Lau, Jey H., Alexander Clark & 15 Shalom Lappin. 2017. Grammaticality, acceptability, and probability: A prob- abilistic view of linguistic knowledge. Cognitive Science 41(5):1201–1241). To make their case, they present the results of correlating the output of several probabilistic models trained solely on naturally occurring sentences with the gradient acceptability judgments that humans report for ungrammatical sentences derived from roundtrip machine translation errors. In this paper, we first explore the logic of the Lau et al. argument, both in terms of the choice of evaluation metric (gradient acceptability), and in the choice of test data set (machine translation errors on random sentences from a corpus). We then present our own series of studies intended to allow for a better comparison between LCL’s models and existing grammatical theories. We evaluate two of LCL’s probabilistic models (trigrams and recurrent neural network) against three data sets (taken from journal articles, a textbook, and Chomsky’s famouscolorless-green-ideassentence), using three evaluation metrics (LCL’s gradience metric, a categorical version of the metric, and the experimental-logic metric used in the syntax literature). Our results suggest there are very real, measurable cost-benefit tradeoffs inherent in LCL’s models across the three evaluation metrics. The gain in explanation of gradience (between 13% and 31% of gradience) is offset by losses in the other two metrics: a 43%-49% loss in coverage based on a categorical metric of explaining acceptability, and a loss of 12%-35% in explaining experimentally-defined phenomena. This suggests that anyone wishing to pursue LCL’s models as competitors with existing syntactic theories must either be satisfied with this tradeoff, or modify the models to capture the phenomena that are not currently captured.

Content deafness: When coherent talk just doesn't matter

Common intuition suggests that, when people are engaged in face-to-face conversation, they diligently monitor the coherence of the messages they exchange. We present evidence showing that, contrary to this intuition, people often fail to notice cases of blatant conversational incoherence.Thirty participants engaged in spontaneous face-to-face conversations with a confederate who, 8 min into the conversation, uttered the nonsensical sentence “colorless green ideas sleep furiously”. The sentence was uttered with a clear voice when participants were silent. A minute later the conversation was ended and participants were asked if they had noticed the sentence. Remarkably, only 10 participants noticed.This newly uncovered phenomenon—which we label content deafness—corroborates and extends previous findings with online instant messaging.

Has Castration Anxiety Anything to Do with Psychoanalysis?

ABSTRACTFollowing the idea of Green about whether sexuality is related to psychoanalysis, I begin this article with a question that refers to the title of the work: “Has castration anxiety anything to do with psychoanalysis?” Concerned about the lack of bibliographic reference to the concept of castration anxiety, I make a tour of the notion, taking as its point of departure and arrival the intellectual itinerary of Freud. I continue with a brief review of later authors. Interested in rethinking this issue, I wonder whether castration anxiety is expressed in the same manner in the clinical practice of today. The question does not tolerate a hasty response, so I present two clinical vignettes to call attention to castration anxiety as a central factor in the development and understanding of the clinical practice. The last section refers to the discussion and concluding reflections.

Study on green technologies and skills of tourism enterprises in Huangshan City based on environmental protection perspective

With the rapid development of China's economy, air pollution, environmental degradation and other ecological problems emerge in an endless stream, a great threat to human health. In this context, the ecological civilization, sustainable development, economic transformation and upgrading and other green ideas emerge as the times require, and are highly concerned by the government, enterprises, academia and the public. From the perspective of tourism enterprises, through empirical research, this paper analyzes the influencing factors of green technologies and skills in tourism enterprises, and constructs the impact mechanism model of green technologies and skills. Put forward to promote enterprises to implement green management intention, suggestions to promote the practice of green technologies and skills.

ИСТОРИЯ “ЗЕЛЕНОГО ДВИЖЕНИЯ” В США: ОПОРА НА ГРАЖДАНСКОЕ ОБЩЕСТВО

The article thoroughly analyses the history of the American Environmentalism as a socio-political movement and follows the evolvement of the early elitist Conservationist Movement into a mass Green Movement based on public participation. The importance of Conservationist principles in the U.S. state policy greatly increased during the first half of the 20th century, especially during the Progressive Era under the first President-conservationist Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909). The economic revival after the Great Depression of 1929-1933 included development of environmental and tourist infrastructure with mass participation of the civil society. However, the contemporary U.S. Green Movement was formed during and right after the World War II, as a natural consequence of the smart policy pursued by the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of his “New Deal” course. By 1970-1980s, it already included three directions: the traditional Wilderness Preservation, the Anti-Nuclear Movement and a combination Anti-Toxic Movement/Environmental-Justice Movement (known as NYMBY). Special attention is paid to its basic forms — the environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Green political parties. It is concluded that the variety of environmental NGOs — older and newer, national and local, information- and agitation-oriented, advocacy practicing and political lobbyists, etc. — are grassroots of the environmental movement in the U.S., mobilizing civil support and creating an electoral base for Green political parties both at the state and federal level. The author investigates their present condition and perspectives, strategy and tactics of their social and political activities. At present, the popularity of “green ideas” in the American society is still inadequate for the Green Party USA to provide a real competition with the two main political parties — Democratic and Republican — at the federal level, even in view of its social-democratic orientation. However, “The Greens” are successful at the local level. Popularization of “green ideas”, mobilization of followers among the civil society, environmental legislation lobbying and strengthening of the environmental justice system currently remain the main tactics of American environmental organizations.

Application of green concept in mechanical design and manufacture

With the development of productive forces, the relationship between human and nature is becoming tight increasingly, especially environmental pollution and resource consumption that comes from equipment manufacturing industry mainly. Green development concept is a new concept which can solve the current ecological environment. The philosophical foundation and theoretical basis of green idea are expounded through the study of scientific development and green concept. The difference between the traditional design and the green design is analyzed; the meaning and content of the mechanical design for green concept are discussed. And the evaluation method of green design is discussed too. The significance of green development concept in the mechanical design and manufacturing science is pinpointed clearly. The results show that the implementation of green design under the mechanical design, from the source of pollution control to achieve green manufacturing, is the only way to achieve sustainable development.

Application of Green Idea in Energy-Saving Design of Building Hvac System

Application of Green Idea in Energy-Saving Design of Building Hvac System

Green Supply Chain Management Practices and Environmental Performance: An empirical study of manufacturing industry in Vietnam

The green supply chain idea has now been implemented and incorporated into production and operations management. Managers and practitioners are interested in green legislation and concepts while selecting suppliers and organizations. A green supplier, green innovation, environmental performance practices in Vietnam’s manufacturing industry are all examined in this study. This is a descriptive research using correlation and structural equation modeling. Management and specialists from many Vietnamese provinces were chosen as study subjects. Study instruments included a questionnaire and Smart-PLS. The results of data analysis demonstrate a positive and significant association between a green supplier, green innovations, and environmental performance of an organization, as well as a negative yet significant relationship. Green innovation and environmental performance have a strong positive association, as does environmental performance and competitive advantage.

Acerca da metapsicologia dos limites

Resumo: A "metapsicologia dos limites" pode ser definida como a parte da teoria psicanalítica que visa compreender a estruturação e o funcionamento dos limites do psiquismo; bem como, a parte da teoria psicanalítica que se destina a compreender a etiologia, o funcionamento e o tratamento dessas patologias-limite. O objetivo deste texto é apresentar uma articulação entre ideias de Freud, Winnicott, Green e Brusset que nos permitiram organizar uma hipótese etiológica para esses quadros que os situa dentro das neuroses narcísicas, mas os diferencia das melancolias, e examinar as consequências tópicas dessa hipótese, procurando contribuir com o campo da metapsicologia dos limites.

Green commercial building projects in Singapore: Critical risk factors and mitigation measures

Green buildings have achieved rapid development over the past two decades, yet research efforts on risk management in green building projects are still very limited. This study aims to identify and evaluate risk factors in green commercial building projects in Singapore, to compare their risk criticalities with those in traditional counterparts, and to propose mitigation measures that can tackle these risk factors. To achieve these goals, a comprehensive literature review and structured interviews were carried out, and a questionnaire survey was conducted with 25 Singapore-based construction companies. Survey results showed that the top five critical risk factors in green commercial building projects were “inflation,” “currency and interest rate volatility worsened by the import of green materials,” “durability of green materials,” “damages caused by human error,” and “shortage of green materials.” Results also showed that green commercial building projects faced risks of design change and poor construction quality for less criticality than their traditional counterparts, but that the adoptions of green ideas, materials, and technologies had posed additional risks to green commercial building projects. Additionally, seven widely used risk mitigation measures were also proposed by this study.

Green planning and simulation study on outdoor wind environment of central business district

A Central Business District (CBD) is a relatively independent urban system integrating office, entertainment, public facilities, and residential buildings into one. It should be planned and constructed under the guidance of green ecological idea. Taking the green planning practice of a CBD in Xi’an, a western city of China for example, this study conducts a general layout analysis on the green planning of the CBD, carries out researches by dint of building and environment simulation software such as CFD, and gives the future construction and development blueprint of CBD and formulates the contents of efficient planning based on six aspects. Besides, the outdoor wind environment of CBD is simulated with the CFD analytical method to analyze how comfort the outdoor activity is and how good the building ventilation is. The outdoor environment is also designed in an optimized way, providing scientific basis for the more in-depth and detailed planning.

An assessment of green economy in Central Java Province, Indonesia: conformity and transformation

This paper assesses the environmental performance of land-based economic sectors of Central Java, Indonesia. An assessment framework is designed and applied to two Districts: Banyumas and Purbalingga. It consists of two main elements, namely: (a) an assessment between the medium term development plans of the two districts in terms of their consistency with green economy ideas and (b) an assessment of the transformation phase (from research to the real green investment) that has been achieved by each district. Results show that development actors in the regions have a strong aspiration for 'welfare and justice' as the ultimate goal of development. However, their visions overlook one of the main objectives of the green economy, which is associated to the notion of 'environmental protection and climate stabilisation'. This assessment also suggests that research and advocacy have been limited which may prevent effective transformation towards a green economy in both districts. Finally, some forms of research and advocacy on green economy are proposed.

Application of Green Building Ideas in Design

With the deterioration in living environment and development in spiritual civilization, green building has been promoted and applied. Facing with the gradually increasing quality of life, public have made many demands on the living environment and indoor environment has been paid more and more attention. In order to better promote the green building concept, in addition to do in-depth research on ecological technology, considerations from many areas such as environment, demand, energy saving, and etc. have to be taken, so as to better achieve the green building design. In this paper, based on an overview of green building design, analysis of the application of green building ideas in design has been done, hoping to provide some references to relevant staff.