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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
Author: Souza, Gilvan C.
Product Type: Notes; Teaching Modules
Source: Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Publication Year: 2010
The goal of life-cycle assessment is to find the full range of environmental and societal damages assignable to products (or a process) through its entire life cycle.
Banking on markets to save the post-Nopenhagen world
Author: Knowledge@SMU
Product Type: Web Sites
Source: Knowledge@SMU
Publication Year: 2009
Not a day goes by without it being dissected and discussed by pundits, reporters, activists or simply interested persons on the street – all in the agreement that something must be done. And so, they looked to COP15, the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, as hopes ran high that environmentalism might triumph over politics; that all countries might be united in stopping the world from overheating.
Global Climate Change and BP
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Hyman, Mikell
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Following the sudden resignation of Sir John Browne, Tony Hayward, BP CEO, must decide how global climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy.
Nanosolar, Inc.
Authors: Steenburgh, Thomas; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
Nanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less efficient in producing electricity than polysilicone, it is much less costly too.
Cleansing the Air at the Expense of Waterways
Author: Duhigg, Charles
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2009
For years, residents here complained about the yellow smoke pouring from the tall chimneys of the nearby coal-fired power plant...
With Natural Gas Drilling Boom, Pennsylvania Faces an Onslaught of Wastewater
Author: Sapien, Joaquin
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: ProPublica, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Publication Year: 2009
The Monongahela, a drinking water source for 350,000 people, had apparently been contaminated by chemically tainted wastewater from the state’s growing natural gas industry.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Energy Efficiency
Author: Wu, Gina
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
With the advent of wind power, nuclear power plants, and solar panels, public conversation around energy and the environment has largely been focused more on finding alternative sources of energy than on examining energy use. However, if society shifted to a more end-use focus on improving energy efficiency, this swing would represent an enormous opportunity for businesses to generate profits, as well as humanity to reduce international energy dependence and combat climate change.
Aiming Toward a Hydrogen Economy: Icelandic New Energy Ltd.
Authors: Bansal, Pratima; Mark, Ken; Mitchell, Jordan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
Icelandic New Energy Company, a research and development consortium based in Reykjavik, Iceland, is considering what future direction to take.
RBC Financial Group - The Equator Principles in Qatargas II LNG Project
Authors: Klassen, Robert; Gancberg, Matias
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2009
The Royal Bank of Canada was a potential participant in a syndicated loan for a project financing venture in Qatar. The project would extract and process liquid natural gas there and transport it to the United Kingdom market. Two basic questions remained: does the Qatargas II Project make sense to RBC as it attempts to balance economic, environmental and social performance, and do the Equator Principles provide a competitive advantage?
Have a Nice Day
Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2009
Applied Materials is one of the most important U.S. companies you’ve probably never heard of.
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