The Longevity of Sustainable Vineyard Practices

Developing sustainable feedback practices

Feedback is central to the development of student learning, but within the constraints of modularized learning in higher education it is increasingly difficult to handle effectively. This article makes a case for sustainable feedback as a contribution to the reconceptualization of feedback processes. The data derive from the Student Assessment and Feedback Enhancement project, involving indepth...

Sustainable Agricultural Practices in India

Economic performance of sustainable farming practices

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

Sleep Furiously : Is the Emergence of “ Sustainable ” Practices Meaningful ?

The title of the presentation comes from a famous passage by Noam Chomsky (Chomsky 1957) showing that sentences that make sense syntactically or structurally may carry no meaning. So one might ask whether the emergence of green practices in firms signals a meaningful sea change or remains merely some familiar, but meaningless pattern. And further, given the spate of books and articles (for exam...

Mentoring program practices as predictors of match longevity

1InnovationResearch&Training 2University ofMassachusetts Boston Correspondence Email: [email protected] WethankBigBrothersBig Sisters ofAmerica (BBBSA) for participating in andproviding access to thearchiveof data analyzed in this study, and toGregZweber andDr. JessicaMitchell from BBBSA forhelpful feedbackon this paper. This projectwas supportedbyGrant#2012-JUFX-0009awarded to thefirst aut...