Smart Car

Smart Car
Author: Tom Warhol
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781608700127

Is the Smart Car really smart for the environment? What technology makes such a small car safe to drive? Does it use an engine like a regular car? Find out the answers to these questions-and more-in Smart Car! Book jacket.

Hybrid and Electric Cars

Hybrid and Electric Cars
Author: Rebecca Pettiford
Publisher: Green Planet
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781620314029

In Hybrid and Electric Cars, early fluent readers learn about the technology allowing us to reduce our vehicles' dependence on fossil fuels. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about the science behind hybrid and electric cars.Infographics illustrate key concepts, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about hybrid and electric cars using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Hybrid and Electric Cars also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index.Hybrid and Electric Cars is part of Jump!'s Green Planet series.

On the Road

On the Road
Author: Lori Barker
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2012-01-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433399326

Readers are introduced to mathematical concepts like ratios, proportions, and percentages in this adventurous title that centralizes around an exciting road trip! Through stunning photos, engaging sidebars, STEM topics, helpful mathematical diagrams, and challenging practice problems, readers will be excited to put their developing mathematical skills to good use!

Green Businesses

Green Businesses
Author: Glen Croston
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008-07-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599181800

Take the Lead in the Green Revolution With environmental concerns a top issue for consumers everywhere, the green market is the next big boom industry for entrepreneurs looking to make money-and make a difference. "Kermit is wrong! It's easy being green...just read Croston's book. He provides a terrific guide to an amazing array of business eco-opportunities, and tells you how to take advantage of them!" -Ray Smilor, Executive Director, Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego, author of Daring Visionaries: How Entrepreneurs Build Companies, Inspire Allegiance, and Create Wealth "75 Green Businesses gets you quickly up to speed on the fast-paced trends propelling the green economy and shows you where to find the opportunities. If you're considering starting your own green business, Croston's book has practically written about half your business plan for you. A terrific resource." -Josh Dorfman, founder & CEO, Vivavi and author of The Lazy Environmentalist "Browsing through these pages will inspire some directly toward a new career and prompt others to invent new business models. Expect to see a dog-eared copy sitting on every shelf of the next generation of entrepreneurs." -Eric Corey Freed , Principal, organicARCHITECT and author ofGreen Building & Remodeling for Dummies "The biggest opportunities of the 21st century are green businesses. This wonderful book offers people who want to get involved a very comprehensive listing of those many opportunities as well as numerous links to more information. Read it and get inspired." -Greg Pahl, author of The Citizen-Powered Energy Handbook: Community Solutions to a Global Crisis Discover 75 green startup ideas in multiple industries, including eco-tourism, small wind power, green schools, water conservation landscaping, green investment consulting and more. For each business, Croston shows you the market, product to be delivered, resources needed, major hurdles ahead, competitors and strategies for success.

The Green Bundle

The Green Bundle
Author: Magali A. Delmas
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1503606422

The market for green products has expanded rapidly over the last decade, but most consumers need something more than eco-benefits to motivate their purchases. Magali A. Delmas and David Colgan argue that many green products now offer the total package—a "green bundle" that checks the environmental box, but also offers improved performance, health benefits, savings, and status. To help consumers cut through the noise and make their best decisions, we need new strategies. The Green Bundle offers some of the best and most effective communication techniques for pushing consumers in the right direction. Framing product benefits to motivate behavior is the key. Combining insights from sustainable business and behavioral economics, Delmas and Colgan show managers how to lead buyers from information to action. If you are looking to win over the convenient consumer or understand how companies can create the next tipping point in green consumption, this is the research-based, practical guide for you.

On the Road 6-Pack

On the Road 6-Pack
Author: Lori Barker
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2012-01-13
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1433335484

Readers are introduced to mathematical concepts like ratios, proportions, and percentages in this adventurous title that centralizes around an exciting road trip! Through stunning photos, engaging sidebars, STEM topics, helpful mathematical diagrams, and challenging practice problems, readers will be excited to put their developing mathematical skills to good use! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

The False Promise of Green Energy

The False Promise of Green Energy
Author: Andrew P. Morriss
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1935308416

Green energy promises an alluring future---more jobs in a cleaner environment. We will enjoy a new economy driven by clean electricity, less pollution, and, of course, the gratitude of generations to come. There's just one problem: the lack of credible evidence that any of that can occur. --

Green Transportation Basics

Green Transportation Basics
Author: Dan Chiras
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1550924605

Our automobile culture is devastating for the environment, but private passenger vehicles are unlikely to disappear from our roads anytime soon. Greener cars and fuels will be a necessity for many years to come. Green Transportation Basics is a guide to greening your personal driving habits by dramatically improving the efficiency of an existing vehicle using simple measures such as trip planning and regular maintenance to improve fuel economy. This handy guide also explores the most promising new green carsand trucks, including electric vehicles, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and natural-gas cars. And it critically examines sustainable fuels includingethanol, biodiesel, straight vegetable oil, hydrogen, and biomethane, evaluating each according to a set of established criteria. Each green fuel source must: be socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable have a high net energy yield be clean, abundant, renewable, affordable. Don't let your dream of greening your transportation idle – Green Transportation Basics will guide you through the myths and misconceptions and provide clear options for the road to a more sustainable future.

System Innovation for Sustainability 2

System Innovation for Sustainability 2
Author: Theo Geerken
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351279386

The EU-funded project "Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges" (SCORE!) consists of around 200 experts in the field of sustainable innovation and sustainable consumption. The SCORE! philosophy is that innovation in SCP (sustainable consumption and production) policy can be achieved only if experts that understand business development, (sustainable) solution design, consumer behaviour and system innovation policy work together in shaping it. Sustainable technology design can be effective only if business can make the products profitably and consumers are attracted to them. To understand how this might effectively happen, the expertise of systems thinkers must be added to the mix. The publication in 2008 of System Innovation for Sustainability 1 was the first result of a unique positive confrontation between experts from all four communities. It examined what SCP is and what it could be, provided a state-of-the-art review on the governance of change in SCP policy and looked at the strengths and weaknesses of current approaches. System Innovation for Sustainability 2 is the first of three books of case studies covering, respectively, the three key consumption areas of: mobility; food and agriculture; and energy use and housing. These three areas are responsible for 70% of the life-cycle environmental impacts of Western societies. These case studies aim to stimulate, foster or force change to SCP theory in practice. System Innovation for Sustainability 2 focuses on change towards sustainable personal mobility based on implemented cases analysed from a system perspective. It examines what changes can be made to help us reduce our need for mobility, or start to make use of more sustainable mobility systems. This is clearly a critical and highly problematic area, as increasing living standards of a growing global population have resulted in rapid rises in both car and air travel along with the associated pollution. Uniquely, this book approaches the problems and solutions from a systems perspective, explaining the meta-trends, specific issues for the mobility sector, socioeconomic trends, political considerations, socio-cultural developments and environmental issues. As well as the mobility system itself, other societal systems that impact the need for mobility, such as labour and taxation, are addressed in order to provide sustainable solutions to our current "lock-in" problems. Three major problem areas are considered (the "three Cs"): carbon emissions (and the growing contribution of mobility to the climate change crisis), congestion, and casualties. And each strategy proposed addresses one or more of these problem areas. Among the cases discussed are: Norway's carbon compensation scheme for air travel; Madrid's high-occupancy vehicle lanes; London's congestion charge scheme; market-based instruments such as eco-labelling for cars; and taxation. The book identifies opportunities for actors such as governments, manufacturers and consumers to intervene in the complex system to promote sustainable mobility. It concludes with a reflection on problems, trends and action needed. The System Innovation for Sustainability series is the fruit of the first major international research network on SCP and will set the standard in this field for some years to come. It will be required reading for all involved in the policy debate on sustainable production and consumption from government, business, academia and NGOs for designers, scientists, businesses and system innovators.

Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil
Author: Gary Acton
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 868
Release: 2017-05-28
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1783068345

Gary Acton is a London oncologist and his book offers a unique insight into the chaotically unpredictable world of cancer medicine and the biotechnology industry.