Green World Research Articles

:Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy: Art and the Verdant Earth

:<i>Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy: Art and the Verdant Earth</i>

Green Marketing : A Systematic Literature Review

Firms’ marketing strategies and consumer perception towards green products have been evolving quickly, and the emergence of the 'green world' is a reality now. This paper summarized an in-depth study of research papers, articles, and reports since 1990 and also provided insights into the consumer behavior in responding to, adopting the green products, and identifying the factors (whether personal factors or environmental factors) which are responsible for the significant inclination and rise in consumption of green products. The literature review highlighted that the benefits of using green products and their association with others like environment, biodiversity, and ecological sustainability were not successfully and effectively communicated to the consumers. It was also observed that competition in creating a brand in their respective categories, environmental values, and economic objectives are almost in sync with the green marketing philosophy and environmental values, but since green products are perceived as premium category products, consumers’ buying decisions in favor of them was doubtful. The study also shed light on the future course to be adopted by the marketers in formulating sustainable green marketing strategies with the help of functional and emotional ‘green positioning.’ The review of studies suggested that the rise of ‘green brands’ in developing nations has begun. The paper’s uniqueness is that it summarized the works of some of the most prominent authors, and it also captured the classification of articles based on source, country, time, and theme. It would help the readers understand the evolution of green marketing.

Could COVID‐19 mark a turning point for global action on climate change?

COVID‐19 and climate change are both threats of immense proportions, however, the differing perception of climate change as far‐off, projected and unpredictable, persists as a marked barrier to global action. COVID‐19 is increasing awareness of the connection between human actions and environmental consequences. The current slowdown of fossil fuel use has given a glimpse of the quitter, cleaner and more caring world that effective climate change could also achieve. Decisions made in coming months can either “lock in” economic development patterns that will do permanent and escalating damage to the ecological systems, or, if wisely taken, can promote a healthier and greener world.

Advancing Materials towards Climate Neutrality by 2050

In the new decade, International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) is committed with its 2030 agenda on “Advancement of Materials to Sustainable and Green World” working in line with the United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goals. The IAAM also synchronizes its agenda with the action plans of European Green Deal which is aimed to making the Europe as climate neutral by 2050 for which they have taken a set of policy initiatives. The present scenario of the world climate shows that the climate change and the environmental degradation are a major cause of worry for the whole world and an immediate treatment into the situation is the utmost need of the hour.

“Ever Man Loves Peace and a Old Man Best of All”: Revisiting Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby and the Government Tank in Cormac McCarthy’s The Orchard Keeper

ABSTRACT The essay explores two principal aspects of The Orchard Keeper (1965), Cormac McCarthy’s first published novel. It first examines McCarthy’s sensitively realized portrait of the old hermit Uncle Arthur “Ather” Ownby, whose mistakes, family loss, and guilt inspire him to turn to nature, arrive at a new philosophical and spiritual understanding of the cosmos, and defend his green world at a considerable personal cost. Second, an explication of the ominous and rich central symbol of the government tank reveals that McCarthy’s preoccupations are with global and far-reaching events, which include the Cold War and the Space Race. Ownby’s defiance of the government installation makes him the first in McCarthy’s gallery of virtuous characters who strive to uphold morality against the odds and despite ill consequence and the first in McCarthy’s memorable succession of prophetic and “gnomic” old men.

Advanced Materials Research and Innovation Priorities for Accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals

Advanced Materials community has committed to work in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for a green future. The International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) is stepped into the next decade by leading the ‘Advancement of Materials to Sustainable and Green World’. The people understand that having a sustainable future should be the most important aim of humankind’s priorities. With its accumulative sustainable development agenda, the association puts world-wide efforts with Materials Science, Engineering, and Technology across spheres of academia and industry towards potentially addressing the challenges of sustainability of materials research and innovation for a green world.

From Less Batteries to Battery-Less Alert Systems with Wide Power Adaptation down to nWs—Toward a Smarter, Greener World

This survey reviews the state of the art of IoT devices at the low-energy end of the scale: battery-light and battery-less sensor nodes. They are tiny by necessity but expected to be deployed by the billions in the coming years. The article covers battery technology, energy harvesting, energy management, and system activation and response schemes. Furthermore, it proposes battery indifferent architectures and concludes with informative case studies.

APPLYING THE AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INTO THE CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN VIETNAM VIA PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES

Our living environment is increasingly polluted, not only because the amount of resources is increasingly being indiscriminately exploited, there are still many forms of production that pollute the environment, toxic substances which are difficult to decompose into the environment because of not-good human consciousness of some people. The improper collection and classification of daily-life waste is an issue that needs to be addressed. Besides, the situation of indiscriminate garbage disposal and many serious environmental pollution points is formed. Some people even bring domestic waste, dead animal carcasses to rivers and lakes right where they live. Facing the increasing risks of natural environmental pollution, Vietnam needs to promote the education of environmental protection awareness for all people in general and primary school students in particular. Students are the future generation of the country, are the decisive owners for the development of the whole society and are also the people most affected by natural resources and the environment. The article uses survey methods and analyzes data from journals and recent studies. The results show that we need to take action today so that students feel responsible for protecting resources and the environment for a clean and green world.

A Marxist Reading of William Blake’s Selected Poetry: Machineries in Green Studies

Being a dweller of Romantic ecology, William Blake familiarizes his readers with the slant of pastoral landscapes through the ecological sensibilities within the promiscuous city. In his poetry, he has speculated the adventurous plantation of slums in the metropolitan city in the light of machineries and matters that pack human in the box of ambitious dreams as the monstrous dreams of the metropolitan historicity root up the pastoral landscapes of Britain. Whereas critics engage themselves to explore the relation to the outcome of numerous English cultural dominations within his poetry, this study revisits the selected ‘ecopoetics’ through the lens of Marxism to explore the threats towards the green world, especially, within the city shore on Thames. Blake as a ‘green prophet’ enunciates the rural life that is pulverized by the mobility of the mechanistic forces of city life. These mechanistic forces are manipulated by the power of government, industrial revolution, commerce, and neo-colonialism in every day’s behavior in order to ensure the submissiveness of the working class in 18th century England. Thus, the paper aims to discuss the Marxist narratives of Blake’s ‘ecosophy’ that warns us against the severe repercussion of machines and its tyrannical reverberations over the marginalized in his selected poetry.

A facile approach to improve the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells via FA/MA precursor temperature controlling in sequential deposition fabrication

Hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have introduced as a good revolution photovoltaic to meet the green world energy demands. The crystallinity improvement of PSCs is a practical approach to improve the efficacy of PSCs. Double cation formamidinium (FA)/methylammonium (MA) PSCs were fabricated by using a simple sequential deposition process. The mesoporous titanium dioxide (TiO 2 ) layers with 200 nm thickness were used as the electron transport layer (ETL). It was observed that with changing the FA/MA precursor temperature could achieve more desirable perovskite films for photovoltaic applications. Our measurements show that with pre-heating of FA/MA solution at 55 °C the defects on the perovskite layer are well passivated. Besides, the perovskite with better crystallinity and smooth morphology, and the defect-free surface was achieved. It is delightful that perovskite with 55 °C reveals stronger photon absorption and better charge collection. Using the pre-heating approach, a redshift in edge absorption of the perovskite films was observed, indicating a better light-harvesting phenomenon in the corresponding perovskite films. Through optimization of the pre-heating temperature of FA/MA solution, a champion PCE of 13.77% was yielded for PSCs higher than of 10.05% one for pre-heating. Also, modified mixed cation devices revealed higher stability behavior in atmospheric conditions than the reference devices. • The optoelectrical properties of mixed cation perovskite are modified using different FA/MA solution temperature. • This modification results in enhancing of the average device power conversion efficiency reaching to 13.7%. • The enhancement in performance originates from improved perovskite film formation and more efficient charge extraction.

COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE AND ITS IMPACT ON SHAKESPEARE’S PASTORAL COMEDY AS YOU LIKE IT

The paper explores the origins, development and basic genre features of сommedia dell'arte. The first part of the paper deals with the archetypal comic elements of сommedia dell'arte. The historical significance of this type of comedy, as Pandolfi (1957) stresses, lies in the fact that it unequivocally confirms the autonomy of theatrical art by imposing the neverending quest for the freedom to critically examine all the aspects of social life without any dose of censorship or limitations. Its comic pattern has the roots in the grotesque and absurdity of real life, which allows for the actors to fully affirm their artistic aspirations. Shakespeare’s romantic and pastoral comedy focuses on the final reconciliation or conversion of the blocking characters rather than their punishment: the rival brothers Oliver and Orlando are reconciled; Duke Frederick is miraculously converted. This was also a theme present in the medieval tradition of the seasonal ritual play, as Frye notices and claims that “we may call it the drama of the green world, its plot being assimilated to the ritual theme of the triumph of life and love over the waste land...Thus the action of the comedy begins in a world represented as a normal world, moves into the green world, goes into metamorphosis there in which the comic resolution is achieved, and returns to the normal world” (Frye 1957, 182). The Forest of Arden in As You Like It represents an emanation of Frye’s “green world”, which is analogous to the dream world, the world of our desires. In this symbolical victory of summer over winter, we have an illustration of “the archetypal function of literature in visualizing the world of desire, not as an escape from ’reality’, but as the genuine form of the world that human life tries to imitate” (Frye 1957, 184). In addition, the marriage between Orlando and Rosalind takes place in the Forest of Arden not by a coincidence. This is Shakespeare’s vision of the final unity and healing only to be accomplished in the ‘Mother’ Forest, as Hughes terms it (1992, 110), which ultimately represents a symbol of totality of nature and men’s psychic completeness. In Frye’s reading of Shakespeare’s green world, an identical idea of the heroine as the lost soul is expressed: “In the rituals and myths the earth that produces the rebirth is generally a female figure, and the death and revival, or disappearance and withdrawal of human figures in romantic comedy generally involves the heroine” (Frye 1957, 183). Thus, Rosalind represents the epitome of the matriarchal earth goddess that revives the hero and at the same time brings about the comic resolution by disguising herself as a boy (for those members of the audience and/or readers who regard the play as an instance of Hughes’ passive ritual drama and thus primarily enjoy the process of the young lovers’ overcoming various impediments on the way to a desirable end of the play).

Еко-націоналізм, Асоціація «Зелений Світ» і шлях до незалежності України наприкінці 1980-х – на початку 1990-х рр.

Introduction. The problem of social activism in the Ukrainian SSR after the Chernobyl disaster is widely studied by researchers. American researcher J. Dawson developed the theory of eco-nationalism in the late 1990s, according to which a specific movement emerged in the “nuclear” Soviet republics – eco-nationalism that combined ecological and national movements. She contends, however, that the two movements existed in parallel and their degree of convergence depended on the local context. Novelty. Although there are a number of studies on specific aspects of this theory, they are fragmented and the situation in the Ukrainian USSR has not been the subject of deep research. The purpose of the article is to investigate the social activism in Ukraine in the late 1980s - early 1990s taking the example of the Ukrainian environmental association «Green World». Methods. The study is based on an analysis of the original documents of the KGB and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the memoirs of members of the association. Results. The Chernobyl accident was a catalyst for the general public’s dissatisfaction with the Soviet government’s policies in many areas. First of all, it led to the emergence of the anti-nuclear movement, which we identify with the environmental one. Important role in the emergence of environmental movement in Ukraine played creative intellectuals - writers who at the same time represented the ideas of cultural nationalism. The accident radically changed their views on nuclear energy and sparked a public debate on its prospects in the republic. At the initiative of the Union of Writers of Ukraine, the “Green World” Association was established. During 1987-1989, it started activities, hold many protests, adopted the program and strategy. “Green World” has become a leader of the environmental movement and an umbrella to unite disparate environmental informal groups. Conclusions. Although the association’s official documents do not contain slogans of obvious nationalist orientation and it has chosen an ecological niche for its activities, we have found a number of facts that allow us to claim that it supported many nationalist actions and demanded expansion of the Ukrainian ethnic group’s sovereignty in the USSR. Thus, it contributed to the spread of the eco-nationalism ideology and the shaking of the foundations of the USSR, which led to Ukraine’s independence in 1991.

Characterization of polymer based composite using neuro-fuzzy model

Abstract Dealing with a large quantity of waste useless tires can be considered as a big challenge nowadays. There are huge problems affected on the green world because it is non-biodegradable materials and pose a significant environmental problem. The aim of this work is to prevent the air and soil pollution that generated from burning the huge quantity of waste tires (natural and styrene-butadiene rubber) to derive fuel in cement kilns, paper mills, power plants and manufacturing hump and gymnasium floor. It is present as a valuable resource to prepare useful composite materials by mixing liner polymer of high density polyethylene with crosslink hard mulch (its area nearly 20 mm2) waste tires with percentage of 0, 17, 29, 38, 44, 50, 75, 85 and 90%. The average of three tests for each ratio was taken to comprise semi interpenetrating polymer network. The specimens were evaluated to determine their mechanical properties that include shore hardness, elastic modulus, Impact strength and compression strength. The results show the 85% is the best ratio due to an increasing in the mechanical properties of specimens on the other hand, theoretical estimate of the properties of composite specimens was done by using Neuro-fuzzy modelling. Observed good agreements between experimental and theoretical work was obtained.

As You Like It

Reviewed by: As You Like It Cason Murphy As You Like It Presented by Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival. Streamed digitally at flag-shakes.org, 11–27 September 2020. Directed by James Cougar Canfield. Avatar and Sprite design by Nathan Leigh. Costumes by Hannah Fontes. Editing and original music by Sean Golightly. Stage management by Becki Zaritsky. With Bill Chameides (Duke Frederick/Duke Senior), Hannah Fontes (Celia), Gustavo Flores (Touchstone), Keith Hale (Oliver), Rapheal Hamilton (William/Brother Jacques/Lord), Ryan L. Jenkins (Orlando), Nick Marchetti (Charles/Phoebe), Jacob Nichols (Silvius), Suze St. John (Adam/Corin), Melissa Toomey (Jacques), Audrey Young (Audrey/Le Beau), and Becki Zaritsky (Rosalind). Flagstaff Shakespeare Festival’s recent virtual production of As You Like It gives new meaning to Jaques’s musing that “All the world’s a stage, / And all the men and women merely players” (2.7.140–1). In this case, these players are quarantined actors inhabiting 16-bit character avatars who navigate a pixelated Forest of Arden that evokes the nostalgia and aesthetics of role-playing video games from the early 1990s. This metatheatrical production concept, devised by director James Cougar Canfield, emerged in response to a need to shift Flagstaff Shakespeare’s repertory model online as COVID-19 rapidly spread during the pre-production period. With company members sheltering in place across the country, Canfield took cues from memories of watching his mother play Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past as a child, as well as his own daily practice of exploring the idyllic wilds of Animal Crossing: New Horizons during the early phase of quarantine. Here, the imagined vintage computer game As You Like It acts as a recursive metaphor for the production—becoming its own green world to provide the twelve performers of the ensemble an escape from the doldrums of self-isolation. [End Page 283] The opening moment of the production features a charming framing device focused on Becki Zaritsky, the actor who plays Rosalind. The audience, positioned as if watching from the screen of Zartisky’s computer, watches a largely silent dumb show as she enters her real-world bedroom and casually checks her phone, only to find a message that spurs her to plug in her gaming headset and log onto the game. After a few keystrokes, she slowly draws her eyes up to us and flashes a fourth wall-breaking smile before Sean Golightly’s pitch-perfect synthesized main theme fades in over the title screen of the game. Not only does this sequence effectively center Zaritsky-as-Rosalind as our primary focus, but it also provides a quaint analog frontispiece which will be bookended by her sublime delivery of Rosalind’s epilogue, delivered in the same setting. Following a genre-perfect scrolling text exposition detailing Duke Frederick’s usurpation and exile of Duke Senior, the production completes Rosalind’s digital transformation with the selection of her Renaissance-styled avatar. Moving into the narrative proper, Canfield’s vision nicely allows the company to similarly re-envision the major moments of Shakespeare’s text within the framework of RPG (role-playing game) mechanics. In Oliver’s first confrontation with Orlando, upon the utterance of “Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain?,” a traditional turn-based combat sequence launches and the performers strategically select from options including PUNCH, SLASH, and HEAL. This gameplay mechanic is expertly deployed at the playtext’s two other moments of danger—during the setpiece wrestling match pitting Orlando against Charles in 1.2, and later in a fully hilariously realized boss battle between Orlando and the lioness, which precedes Oliver’s melodramatic recollection of the event for Rosalind-as-Ganymede and Celia-as-Aliena in 4.3. With only a dozen actors at hand to cover the twenty-two named characters in the Folio playtext, many clever choices of doubling are made. Some of these pairings have precedent in the play’s performance history—Suze St. John brings wisdom and gentility to her doubling of Adam and Corin, both ready to serve to the “last gasp with truth and loyalty” (2.3.70); and Bill Chameides differentiates his stately Duke Senior from the dastardly Duke Frederick with a particularly wild, monitor-chewing...

“The Art Itself is Nature”: Dissolution of the Human Form in Shakespeare’s Green Worlds

“The Art Itself is Nature”: Dissolution of the Human Form in Shakespeare’s Green Worlds

CURRICULUM REFORMATION IN SCHOOL LEVEL: A NEED FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The rapid urbanization and economic development of the country leads to environmental degradation. To address growing environmental challenges, a new development paradigm is needed that puts people at the center of development, regards economic growth as a means and not an end, protects the life opportunities of future generations as well as the present generations and respects the natural systems on which all life depends. Sustainable development is a key concept that provides an answer to the question how humankind coexists harmoniously with the earth and with nature. But the question is that whether the existing curriculum of India would be able to popularize the concept of sustainable development among the students or would it be able to make the students understand the need and importance of sustainable development for a better greener world. In this paper an attempt has made by researchers to discuss about the needs and strategies of curriculum reformation in school level to achieve sustainable development.

Towards a Sustainable Green World? A Better use of OM

Towards a Sustainable Green World? A Better use of OM

Postmodern market scenarios and career patterns: Challenges for education

Background: This article grows out from the realisation that glabal crises caused by the depletion of natural resources, pollution, climate change, migrations, conflicts, unbridled consumption and increasing poverty have made current socio-economic concepts inadequate in the world that is enmeshed in multi-layered and interconnected relationships and interdependencies.Objectives: In an age that is governed by the demands of the economy based on sustainable development, it is expedient and exigent to examine future anticipations concerning scenarios of market transformations, career patterns for individuals in these changeable market realities and the challenges which these processes produce for education. This article aims to provide such urgently needed insights.Method: To achieve this objective, we rely on research explorations using the method of document analysis. The studied documents included future scenarios developed by the Infuture Institute and The Future of the Work, a report that contains a range of futurist depictions of what may happen with our world, with a special focus on work. The visions outlined in these documents are metaphorically described as Working Forever, The Useless Class, People per Hour, Through the Glass Door and There Are No Jobs on a Dead Planet, or are portrayed as the blue world, the orange world and the green world. The study of these reports triggered our reflection on related challenges in education.Results: The findings yielded by this study include a set of developmental shifts in education which we outline in the article, showing the passage from traditional education based on the teacher–student knowledge transfer to personalised, community-oriented education; from directive education to life design education; from institutional education to education at workplace and in the community; and from education for competition to education for collaboration, sustainable development and decent work.Conclusion: In conclusion, the article spells out implications for competencies, directions of development and learning, the forms of career and counselling or guidance interventions as resulting from the futurist vision of the world pictured in the discussed scenarios for the labour market.

Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds. Harriet Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+239.

<i>Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds</i>. Harriet Phillips. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+239.

Behavior and perception of younger generation towards green products

As we know, the most important goal of an organization is to meet the market demand, and also to go with the trend of the market. And currently, the term “Green Marketing” is the buzz word in the market. It is defined as “the strategy used by an organization to produce and market the products in an environment‐friendly way, i.e., an attempt to reduce the negative impact of the product on the environment. We can now observe that the young generations these days—in fact, all consumers in the whole market—are more concerned about the environmental effects of the human beings” consumption practices. So they are moving towards consuming green products which give benefits to oneself. While it is true that this move does not completely eradicate the issues threatening the green in the environment, this surely is a step forward toward a greener world, which simultaneously decreases the green issues.This paper presents an empirical study of the green issues and the green products, comparing them with the attitude of the consumers from the young generation. In this paper, the study is mostly concerned with the young generation wherein the factors affecting their buying behavior are analyzed so as to trace the important factors that drive the young generation into changing their consumption patterns from the conventional product to the green products. Here the study also analyzes the knowledge and the awareness level of the consumers about the green issues, and about the green products and their benefits to oneself and the environment. Besides, a comparison is also done between several factors/variables and the consumers’ age so that it can be easily understood that which variables attract which age group.In this study, various objectives were set. The hypothesis was developed to check the significance level of the relations between young consumers and their attributes. An initial survey was done by distributing a questionnaire online as well as offline. The analysis result says that the young generation consumers have a high degree of awareness and knowledge regarding the green issues and products, which further drives them to buy the green products.