Blockchain technology has been heralded as a game changer for addressing severe environmental and economic sustainability challenges. In response to rising concerns, blockchain (BCT) is transforming green innovation, culminating in practices well-established business models. Recognizing this, we investigated the role of innovation its impact on sustainability, which an sustainability. Moreover,...

Information Technology (IT) significantly impacts the environment throughout its life cycle. Most enterprises have not paid enough attention to this until recently. IT’s environmental impact can be significantly reduced by behavioral changes, as well as technology changes. Given the relative energy and materials inefficiency of most IT infrastructures today, many green IT initiatives can be eas...

This paper adopts the slacks-based measure-directional distance function (SBM-DDF, 2009) method for deriving the “Green Innovation Growth” rates of 28 manufacturing industries in China. The results indicate that the overall level of green innovation growth in China’s manufacturing is relatively low, with a declining trend. The tradeoffs among energy, environment and economy are rather sharp, an...

From Nondissociative to Dissociative Adsorption of Benzene-thiol on Au(111): A Density Functional Theory Study Xiaoli Fan,* Qiong Chi, Chong Liu, and Woonming Lau* School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710072, China Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100084, China Chengdu Green Energy and Green Manufacturing Techno...

Increased demand for bigger, brighter, and higher resolution large-screen, high-definition televisions and projection displays prompted a joint venture between Laser Power Corporation and Proxima Corporation to explore the use of laser technology to meet this demand. As relatively early-stage companies, the joint venture partners lacked sufficient internal funds for research and development, wh...

The late David Brower [1], a noted environmentalist, stated “We don’t inherit the environment from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”. This is a very sobering comment. If the definition of sustainability is that we leave this planet to our children in a better state than we found it, then according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [2] we are failing dismally. ...

Many enterprises have launched initiatives and benefited from improving their position as stewards of the environment. Strategies that help determine where to focus investments and resources in order to improve the environment are also becoming more common. Not surprisingly, methodologies designed to reduce waste are well suited to help companies that have environmental impact objectives such a...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) technology has been used to develop small, wearable, pulse rate sensors. These devices, consisting of infrared light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors, offer a simple, reliable, low-cost means of monitoring the pulse rate noninvasively. Recent advances in optical technology have facilitated the use of high-intensity green LEDs for PPG, increasing the adoption ...

This paper presents a decision tool intended to help achieve the goal of reduction in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in the greater Philadelphia region by the year 2050. The goal is to explore and build a pre-prototype to evaluate the value of the role for agents, alternative data sources (Census, energy reports, surveys, etc.), GIS modeling, and various social science theories of human behavi...

In a market where consumers are not fully informed about the actual production technology or environmental performance of firms that engage in strategic competition, I study the effect of environmental consciousness of consumers on the incentive to invest in cleaner technology. Firms compete in prices and may signal their environmental performance to uninformed consumers through prices. I also ...