Every year, 4 billion pounds of waste are produced by health care facilities, and the amount continues to increase annually. In response, a movement toward greening health care has been building, with a particular focus on the operating room. Between 20% and 70% of health care waste originates from a hospital's operating room, and up to 90% of operating room waste is improperly sorted and sent ...

Understanding the variations in global land carbon uptake, and their driving mechanisms, is essential if we are to predict future carbon-cycle feedbacks on global environmental changes. Satellite observations of vegetation greenness have shown consistent greening across the globe over the past three decades. Such greening has driven the increasing land carbon sink, especially over the growing s...

In Justice and Natural Resources: An Egalitarian Theory (2017), Chris Armstrong proposes a version of global egalitarianism that – contra the default renderings this approach takes individual attachment to specific resources into account. By doing this, his theory has potential for greening both in terms procedure scope. procedure, its broad account focus on individuals rather than groups conne...

The effect of gibberellic acid (GA) on light-induced greening of etiolated pea plants (Pisum sativum [L.] cultivars Alaska and Progress) was characterized. Progress, a GA-deficient dwarf of Alaska, was found to accumulate chlorophyll and light harvesting chlorophyll protein associated with photosystem 11 (LHC-11) more rapidly than Alaska, Alaska treated with GA, or Progress treated with GA. A s...

Active research is being conducted in reducing power consumption of all the components of the Internet. To that end, we propose schemes for power reduction in network switches − Time Window Prediction, Power Save Mode and Lightweight Alternative. These schemes are adaptive to changing traffic patterns and automatically tune their parameters to guarantee a bounded and specified increase in laten...

Environmental issues have received considerable attention in the literature over the past few years; consider, for example, Burrit (2004), Hopwood (2009), Hubbard (2009), Masanet-Llodra (2006), and Schaltegger and Wagner (2006), to name but a few. Several factors have motivated companies to investigate and improve environmental performance (Länsiluoto&Järvenpää, 2008). Stakeholders, such as cus...

Climate change and environmental stewardship are phrases that have been defining the past few decades and promoting change in our societies. The sensitivities of intensive care as a specialty make the process of greening an intensive care unit a challenge, but not one that is insurmountable. This paper discusses opportunities for critical care to reduce its environmental impact and provide a fr...

China leads the world in afforestation, and is one of the few countries whose forested area is increasing. However, this massive "greening" effort has been less effective than expected; afforestation has sometimes produced unintended environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic consequences, and has failed to achieve the desired ecological benefits. Where afforestation has succeeded, the approa...

Energy expenditure has become a significant fraction of data center operating costs. Recently, “geographical load balancing” has been suggested as an approach for taking advantage of the geographical diversity of Internet-scale distributed systems in order to reduce energy expenditures by exploiting the electricity price differences across regions. However, the fact that such designs reduce ene...