Annotated Bibliography
Report of my Resources
- EBSCOhost: Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature.
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 17:21:07 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 17:21:07 2011 |
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This book review Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Our- selves in Nature. I used this to get a general overview of the book. It aloud me to remember what the book was about.
- Ecological Intelligence - 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now - TIME
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 16:41:48 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 16:41:48 2011 |
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This is a NY TIme's article on Ecological Intelligence. This provided me with an other example of how Ecological Intelligence works. It also provided me with some good quotes for Danial Golemans book.
- Ecological intelligence : how knowing the hidden impacts of what we buy can change everything / Daniel Goleman.
Type | Book |
Author | Daniel Goleman |
Publisher | New York : Broadway Books |
Date | c2009. |
ISBN | 9780385527828 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 18:21:52 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 18:24:08 2011 |
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This is a book about Ecological Intelligence, this book provided me with case studies and great explanations and examples of ecological intelligence.
- Ecological Intelligence : Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 18:24:48 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 18:24:48 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 18:24:48 2011 |
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This book gave me great overview of ecological intelligence. It also provided me with the history of how we go to where we are today.
- Green, Healthy, & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews | GoodGuide
Type | Web Page |
URL | http://www.goodguide.com/ |
Accessed | Tue Dec 6 20:22:20 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 20:22:20 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 20:22:20 2011 |
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GoodGuide is a website that provide consumers with the power to preform the LCA equation.
- Impact of Nutritional Labeling on Consumer Buying Behavior
Type | Web Page |
Author | P.H.K.Prathiraja |
Author | A.Ariyawardana |
Abstract | Nutritional label plays an important role in providing the relevant nutrition information to consumers. Inclusion of a nutritional label on food items may be an important packaging decision for the Sri Lankan food processors. Hence, a study was conducted with a view of identifying the market for nutritional labeling and the factors that influence the consumer willingness-to-pay for nutritional labeling. Data were collected from a random sample of 90 consumers selected from three supermarkets - Dhanasiri, Cargill’s Food City and Royal Garden Mall - located in Kandy. Market for nutritional labeling were identified by exploring data and a logit method of analysis was performed to identify the factors that influence the willingness-to-pay for nutritional information on food items. A significantly greater proportion of individuals in the age category 36 to 50 years, individuals with tertiary education, individuals with special dietary status and households with less than four members were willing to pay more for the nutritional labels. Logit analysis showed that gender, level of education and special dietary status have a significant positive effect and the household size has a significant negative effect on the willingness to pay for nutrition information. Accordingly, it could be stated that incorporation of a nutritional panel in the package would enhance the demand for food products and it would be an appropriate strategic task for the local food processors. |
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 16:21:52 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 16:21:52 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 16:22:59 2011 |
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This study provided me with data about the impact of nutrition labels on consumer buying behavior. I used this in my paper to support the idea that ecological labels would change consumers buying behavior.
- Industrial Ecology: An Introduction
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 17:23:38 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 17:23:38 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 17:24:17 2011 |
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) | Risk Management Research | US EPA
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 18:20:15 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 18:20:15 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 18:20:15 2011 |
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This web site provided me with an explanation of the LCA. It also provide me with data sources and LCA resources.
- LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE
Type | Web Page |
Author | Scientific Applications International Corporation |
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 20:24:54 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 20:24:54 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 20:25:29 2011 |
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This source afford me a break down of the LCA principles and practices. It aloud me to gain a greater understanding of how LCA works and why society and business should use it.
- Radical transparency
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Accessed | Wed Dec 7 16:31:58 2011 |
Date Added | Wed Dec 7 16:31:58 2011 |
Modified | Wed Dec 7 16:32:28 2011 |
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This website provided me a definition of radical transparency.
- Sustainability Basic Information
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 18:50:29 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 18:50:29 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 18:50:29 2011 |
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This website gave me an explanation of sustainability. It also explain why it is important and why we need to move toward a more sustainable world.
- The Business of Sustainability: What It Means to Managers Now
Type | Web Page |
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 20:21:15 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 20:21:15 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 20:21:15 2011 |
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This article provided me with information about the pressures sustainability puts on the competitive landscape and how businesses are responding.
- The Economic Benefits of Nutrition Labeling: A Case Study for Fresh Meat and Poultry Products
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Accessed | Tue Dec 6 15:19:45 2011 |
Date Added | Tue Dec 6 15:19:45 2011 |
Modified | Tue Dec 6 15:19:55 2011 |
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This is a case study of Nutrition Labeling, it provided me with information about how peoples buying behavior has changed because of nutrition labels of fresh meats And poultry products.
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Crutchfield, StephenKuchler, FredVariyam, Jayachandian N. "The Economic Benefits Of Nutrition Labeling: A Case Study For Fresh Meat And Poultry Products." Journal Of Consumer Policy 24.2 (2001): 185-207. Health Business Elite. Web. 6 Dec. 2011.
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Assessing Progress Toward a 21st Century Right to Know | OMB Watch
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://ombwatch.org/node/11556 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:40:35 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:40:35 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 20:40:35 2011 |
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National Security and Secrecy
Strengths:
- New executive order on classified information reduces over-classification and speeds declassification, but some aspects have not yet been fully implemented
- New executive order on controlled unclassified information improves transparency, predictability, and oversight, but implementation has not yet begun
- New state secrets policy represents minor reform, and administration is continuing to use the privilege broadly to dismiss entire cases
- Only minor steps taken to restore congressional oversight or to limit impact of federal secrecy policies on state and local entities
Strengths:
- Strong utilization of e-government and Web 2.0 technologies, with concerted effort to engage the public
- New scientific integrity policies helpful, though not all agencies have begun implementation
- No high-level effort to improve electronic records management and preservation government-wide
- Despite the establishment of Data.gov, no steps have been taken to improve the use and consistency of metadata
Strengths:
- Strong and consistent leadership on government openness from White House and other high offices that conveys the importance of the issue
- Open Government Directive launched a process that required each agency to work with public to develop openness plans specific to their mission and culture
- Implementation of improved FOIA policies has significantly lagged, and only minor investment in new technologies to improve FOIA processing
- Whistleblower protections have only seen minor improvements, while Congress narrowly failed to pass a major whistleblower protection bill
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The report organized the majority of the recommendations into three chapters.
- The National Security and Secrecy chapter provided specific recommendations to address the increase in government secrecy that has occurred due to professed national and homeland security concerns.
- The Usability of Government Information chapter focused on recommendations for how interactive technologies can make information more easily accessible and usable, including protecting the integrity of information and using the best formats and tools.
- The Creating a Government Environment for Transparency chapter addressed recommendations for creating incentives for openness and shifting government policies and mechanisms to encourage transparency.
Ecological intelligence : an adaptation for frequencies
| Type | Web Page |
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| Author | Gerd Gigerenzer |
| Website Type | Article |
| Date | 1998 |
| Short Title | Ecological intelligence |
| URL | http://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/volltexte/institut/dok/full/gg/ggejuevm_/ggejuevm_.html |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 18:16:31 2011 |
| Rights | The copyright for this electronic archival version remains with the authors and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and is in agreement with the stipulation of the publisher. |
| Extra | Literaturverz. S. 27-29 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 18:16:31 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 18:28:36 2011 |
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Green Intelligence: Toward True Ecological Transparency | Daniel Goleman
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://danielgoleman.info/2010/green-intelligence-toward-true-ecological-transparency/ |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 21:02:03 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 21:02:03 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 21:02:03 2011 |
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This is an example of what companys are doing today to develop a sustainability index for rating its hundreds of thousands of products.
- First Paragraph
Several months ago, Wal-Mart made an announcement that could set off an ecological earthquake: The giant retailer disclosed it was cooperating with an academic consortium to develop a sustainability index for rating its hundreds of thousands of products.
How to Live with Ecological Intelligence: Scientific American
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm? id=how-to-live-with-ecological-intelligence |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 18:08:44 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 18:08:44 2011 |
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- This is an interview between David Biello and Goleman about his new book.
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Improving the Public’s Right to Know at Rio+20 | OMB Watch
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://ombwatch.org/node/11863 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:52:28 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:52:28 2011 |
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The Access Initiative, a global network that promotes access to information, participation, and justice in environmental issues, launched a campaign to encourage public interest organizations from various countries to present their governments with a list of three next steps to improve environmental decision making. This article describes the three next steps to improve environmental decision making. This is an example of what is being done in the Ecological Intelligence field.
Leading sustainability | Daniel Goleman
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://danielgoleman.info/2010/leading-sustainability/ |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 19:22:25 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 19:22:25 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 19:22:25 2011 |
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- This article describes the use of Ecological Intelligence at work. It also describes the effect this kind of system has on businesses.
Online Reputation Systems: How to Design One That Does What You Need
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2010-spring/51308/online-reputation-systems-how-to-design-one-that-does-what-you-need/ |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 21:11:41 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 21:11:41 2011 |
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The Leading Question
How can a website attract the contributors it needs?
Findings
- Designers have to be driven first by the business objectives of the website.
- Four main aims: build trust; promote quality; facilitate member matching; and sustain loyalty.
- Design choices can profoundly affect a community’s culture, easily turning a good space into an ineffective one
RTKnet: Pollution | rtknet.org: The Right-to-Know Network
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://www.rtknet.org/issues/pollution |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:56:16 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:56:16 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 20:56:16 2011 |
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The Right-to-Know Network provides free access to numerous databases and resources on the environment. With the information available on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; find permits issued under environmental statutes; and identify civil cases filed.
The Business of Sustainability: What It Means to Managers Now
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2009-fall/51108/the-business-of-sustainability-what-it-means-to-managers-now/ |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 21:08:42 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 21:08:42 2011 |
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- However, the business implications of sustainability merit greater scrutiny — and scrutiny of a different kind than the “green”-oriented focus that’s most common. Will sustainability change the competitive landscape and reshape the opportunities and threats that companies face? If so, how? How worried are executives and other stakeholders about the impact of sustainability efforts on the corporate bottom line? What — if anything — are companies doing now to capitalize on sustainability-driven changes? And what strategies are they pursuing to position themselves competitively for the future?
Key Findings
REVISED AGENDA
The survey revealed a strong consensus that sustainability is having — and will continue to have — a material impact on how companies think and act.
- More than 92% of survey respondents said that their company was addressing sustainability.
DOWNTURN?
Sustainability is surviving the downturn.
- Fewer than 25% of survey respondents said that their company had decreased its commitment to sustainability during the downturn.
BUT ACTION LAGS
Although almost all the executives in the survey thought that sustainability would have an impact on their business and were trying to address this topic, the majority also said that their companies were not acting decisively to fully exploit the opportunities and mitigate the risks that sustainability presents.
- The majority of sustainability actions undertaken to date appear to be limited to those necessary to meet regulatory requirements.
- Almost 70% of survey respondents said that their company has not developed a clear business case for sustainability.
AGGRESSIVE ACTION YIELDING REWARDS
A small number of companies, however, are acting aggressively on sustainability — and reaping substantial rewards.
- Examples of leading companies offer some helpful ideas on how to proceed.
- Once companies begin to act aggressively, they tend to discover more opportunity, not less, than they expected to find.
To begin answering those questions, we conducted a year-long inquiry that involved in-depth interviews with more than 50 global thought leaders, followed by the Business of Sustainability Survey of more than 1,500 worldwide executives and managers about their perspectives on the intersection of sustainability and business strategy, including their assessments of how their own companies are acting on
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How are sustainability pressures altering the competitive landscape, and how are businesses responding? The first annual Business of Sustainability Survey and interview project found answers.
The Transparency Policy Project: Toxic Pollution
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://www.transparencypolicy.net/toxic-pollution.php |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:29:01 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:29:01 2011 |
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This article explains the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).
- Example of full disclosure
Following a tragic accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984, in which deadly gas killed more than two thousand people in surrounding areas and injured more than a hundred thousand, the U.S. Congress required manufacturers that produced or used large quantities of a selected list of toxic chemicals to report annually on quantities of their release into the air or water or onto land, chemical by chemical and factory by factory.The company disclosures were assembled by the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The Bhopal disaster provided the immediate impetus for toxic pollution disclosure. But the idea that the public had a right to know about toxic pollution in communities was also rooted in a decade of work by labor and community groups aimed at disclosing workplace and community hazards.34
Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: A Coming of Age?
| Type | Journal Article |
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| Author | Aarti Gupta |
| Publication | Global Environmental Politics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Date | 2010 |
| ISSN | 1536-0091 |
| Short Title | Transparency in Global Environmental Governance |
| URL | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/global_environmental_politics/v010/10.3.gupta.html |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:04:55 2011 |
| Library Catalog | Project MUSE |
| Extra | <p>Volume 10, Number 3, August 2010</p> |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:04:55 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 20:04:55 2011 |
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Abstract:This introductory article draws on the contributions to this special issue to consider the implications of a transparency turn in global environmental and sustainability governance. Three interrelated aspects are addressed: why transparency now? How is transparency being institutionalized? And what effects does it have? In analyzing the spread of transparency in governance, the article highlights the broader (contested) normative context that shapes both its embrace by various actors and its institutionalization. I argue that the effects of transparency—whether it informs, empowers or improves environmental performance—remain uneven, with transparency falling short of meeting the ends many anticipate from it. Nonetheless, as the contributions to this issue make clear, transparency has indeed come of age as a defining feature of our current and future politics.
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Transparency in Global Environmental Governance: A Coming of Age?
| Type | Journal Article |
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| Author | Aarti Gupta |
| Publication | Global Environmental Politics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-9 |
| Date | 2010 |
| ISSN | 1536-0091 |
| Short Title | Transparency in Global Environmental Governance |
| URL | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/global_environmental_politics/v010/10.3.gupta.html |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:14:06 2011 |
| Library Catalog | Project MUSE |
| Extra | <p>Volume 10, Number 3, August 2010</p> |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:14:06 2011 |
| Modified | Sun Nov 6 20:14:06 2011 |
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- Abstract:This introductory article draws on the contributions to this special issue to consider the implications of a transparency turn in global environmental and sustainability governance. Three interrelated aspects are addressed: why transparency now? How is transparency being institutionalized? And what effects does it have? In analyzing the spread of transparency in governance, the article highlights the broader (contested) normative context that shapes both its embrace by various actors and its institutionalization. I argue that the effects of transparency—whether it informs, empowers or improves environmental performance—remain uneven, with transparency falling short of meeting the ends many anticipate from it. Nonetheless, as the contributions to this issue make clear, transparency has indeed come of age as a defining feature of our current and future politics.
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US P10 Commitments for Rio20.pdf (application/pdf Object)
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://www.ombwatch.org/files/info/US%20P10%20Commitments%20for%20Rio20.pdf |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 20:58:43 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 20:58:43 2011 |
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- “Three Demands,” which outline areas where the U.S. government can take next steps to better fulfill the promise of Principle 10.
Principle 10, the “Environmental Democracy Principle,” recognizes that environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all stakeholders and with access to information, the opportunity to participate, and access to justice.
Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation - Harvard Business Review
| Type | Web Page |
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| URL | http://hbr.org/2009/09/why-sustainability-is-now-the-key-driver-of-innovation/ar/1 |
| Accessed | Sun Nov 6 21:04:54 2011 |
| Date Added | Sun Nov 6 21:04:54 2011 |
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The article, co-authored by the University of Michigan-based strategy maven C.K. Prahalad, proclaimed that the next business model must be green and touted ecological innovation as the coming driver of economic growth.
