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Towards a sustainable economy? Socio-technical transitions in the green building sector
Making the transition to a green economy is a major policy driver in the UK and other countries. Entrepreneurs are suggested as being at the forefront of this transition and as a driving force for sustainability. These “green entrepreneurs” may represent a new type of entrepreneurial behaviour combining economic, environmental and social aims. In this paper, we present empirical work conducted with green entrepreneurs in the UK green building sector. Buildings have significant impacts on the environment, both in terms of materials and post-construction energy demands. Drawing on sustainability transitions theory, we examine the role of green entrepreneurs in affecting change and suggest that green building niches are less consensual than previously theorised. In theorising green entrepreneurs, we also point to the need to consider them within wider networks of activity rather than as lone actors and the implications this has for policy
Anisotropic imbibition on surfaces patterned with polygonal posts
We present and interpret lattice Boltzmann simulations of thick films
spreading on surfaces patterned with polygonal posts. We show that the
mechanism of pinning and depinning differs with the direction of advance, and
demonstrate that this leads to anisotropic spreading within a certain range of
material contact angles.Comment: DSFD Proceedings 201
Comment on: Failure of the Work-Hamiltonian Connection for Free-Energy Calculations [Phys Rev Lett 100, 020601 (2008), arXiv:0704.0761]
We comment on a Letter by Vilar and Rubi [arXiv:0704.0761].Comment: one page, including one figure; to appear in Phys Rev Let
The Lebesgue Universal Covering Problem
In 1914 Lebesgue defined a "universal covering" to be a convex subset of the
plane that contains an isometric copy of any subset of diameter 1. His
challenge of finding a universal covering with the least possible area has been
addressed by various mathematicians: Pal, Sprague and Hansen have each created
a smaller universal covering by removing regions from those known before.
However, Hansen's last reduction was microsopic: he claimed to remove an area
of , but we show that he actually removed an area of just . In the following, with the help of Greg Egan, we find a new,
smaller universal covering with area less than . This reduces the
area of the previous best universal covering by a whopping .Comment: 11 pages, 5 jpeg figures, numerical errors correcte
Institutionalizing alternative economic spaces? An interpretivist perspective on diverse economies
This article offers an approach that helps geographers and others to carefully and critically reexamine prospects for diverse economies. We propose an interpretative institutionalist perspective is useful for elucidating overlooked opportunities for creating alternative economic visions and practices by revealing the process of ‘meaning making’ undertaken by actors in the process of developing policy responses to various dilemmas. We explore this notion in the context of de-growth or post-growth. De-growth is a way of thinking about the economy in ways that are not growth oriented, or fixated on GDP, but on the redistribution of wealth and living within the Earth’s ecosystems
SOME ISSUES CONCERNING SPECIFICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF OUTDOOR RECREATION DEMAND MODELS
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COMPONENTS OF OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL VALUES: KISSIMMEE RIVER BASIN, FLORIDA
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF PRICE ON RESIDENTIAL WATER DEMAND: METROPOLITAN MIAMI, FLORIDA
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The Community of Workers' University: a pragmatic institution for the future?
The identity of the worker foregrounds the development of higher education rather than the other way around. It is developed in contrast to the lack of higher education innovation in the recent UK Government White Paper on Higher Education and in the educational philosophy of Tawney and the neo-pragmaticism of Rorty. The proposal is that higher learning, after capabilities have been nurtured in compulsory schooling, may be developed through communities of workers acting as agent for improvement of their communities; not in universities at all. This is a radical approach to higher education and employment and one that might bring true diversity to the higher education sector
Critical teaching in classrooms of healing: Struggles and testimonios
Using testimonio methodology, this article describes the testimonio and struggle of two Chicanx activist social studies teachers teaching in a large urban high school serving socio-economically poor Latinx students. Both teach critically working to develop their students’ understanding of how their ethnic and community histories contrast with larger historical narratives. Both teach the racism, misogyny, and homophobia rampant in American history by connecting it to the present. They also engage a culturally sustaining pedagogy to give students strength from their cultural inheritance. Each approached this differently, one developing an ethnic studies course, and the second developing a circulo de hombres, and embedding a youth participation action research. Each teacher tackled critical teaching and healing simultaneously from different perspectives yielding a variety of accompanying struggles
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