In Aliette K. Frank’s article, What is the story with sustainability? A narrative analysis of diverse and contested understandings, she explores eight different sustainability “stories”, both those in public and scholarly contexts, that each show to a different approach to sustainability measurement. With this, Frank attempts to provide alternatives to conventional sustainability practices and ways of thinking. […]
Parallel Case Studies
Within the United States, different cities and communities obviously have different relationships with the second hand industry. But I am also curious to compare the second hand store industry existence and meaning in different parts of the globe and different cultures. Very brief, initial searching (using wikipedia and Google Trends) makes it seem to only be […]
Parallel Case Studies – Mika
Here is a selection of three existing sources that explore similar areas that we are interested for our own project: Shaukat, A.K., and Kamal, M.A. 2010. “Study of Visco-elastic Properties of Shoppers Waste for Its Reuse as Construction Material.” Construction and Building Materials 24 (8). 1340-351. We are looking at thrift stores as a way […]
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit established in 2011 for corporate sustainability assessment, and it is one of the key competitors of GRI. SASB distinguishes itself by focusing on communicating sustainability information to investors and establishing an accounting-based framework. It establishes a standard process to assess the material impacts of an industry […]
Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network
The Greater Portland Sustainability Education Network (GPSEN), established in 2013, is a nonprofit institution declared by the United Nations University as a Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) in Sustainable Development in Education. This makes it one of 138 worldwide and only one of three located in the US. Specific values of GPSEN include education, the […]
Willapa Bay Research Project Outline
Top of Hourglass 1.1 Background 1.1.1 Justification for studying credibility of science Thomas S. Kuhn’s book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, discusses the long standing linear notions of the scientific process. The scientific method was created by humans, and should be look at critically instead of as an absolute. Scientists are constantly trying to […]
Updated Concentration Questions
Old Questions: Descriptive: How do past trends in agriculture inform future innovations? What does successful implementation of AgTech look like? How are specific, successful AgTech innovations currently being implemented and what key characteristics do they share? What are the best ways to market AgTech innovations? What are the social and political drawbacks to many current […]
GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines for Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Critical Review
GRI Sustainability Reporting Guidelines for Public and Third Sector Organizations: A Critical Review This article takes a close look at GRI guidelines while providing a critique and suggesting alternatives. This is perhaps not too different from the research article that we are looking to write about STARS reporting, albeit ours more comparative. Also, Dumay et […]
KaleTek
KaleTek – a Hydrophobic Kale-Based Spray Developed in EINV 241 – Technologies of the Future
The College Sustainability Report Card
The College Sustainability Report Card was a program from the Sustainable Endowments Institute that ran from 2007-2011. It was the first comprehensive list of sustainability profiles of institutions of higher education and it assessed the 300 schools in the US and Canada with the largest endowments along with around 20 other institutions who chose to […]