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Energy Efficient Homes in the USA - Asa Foss
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Date added: 02/02/2007 |
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Asa Foss, The Need for, and State of, Energy-Efficient Homes in the United States. Asa Foss is an American who works in the rapidly growing green buildings movement in the United States. This was his Mphil research work. |
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Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Development - Flora Gitari
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Date added: 02/02/2007 |
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Flora Gitari, Does the corporate citizenship discourse represent a sincere attempt by business to contribute to sustainable development, or is it primarily about maintaining business as usual? What are the implications for companies, the state and civil society organisations? Flora Gitari is from Kenya, living in Lesotho. This was her assignment for the Corporate Citizenship module. |
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Claudia Stuewe - Diffusion of Sustainability Innovations around Lynedoch EcoVillage
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Date added: 03/15/2010 |
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Claudia Stuwe - Diffusion of Sustainable Innovations Around Lynedoch EcoVillage. Thesis submitted in fulfillment of a Master of Arts, Oldenburg University, Germany. To do the research for this thesis the researcher was admitted as an intern and was assisted by SI staff to conduct her research. The significance of this thesis is that it attempts to link sustainability to a theory of innovation that has important significance for understanding the impact of the Lynedoch EcoVillage. |
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Cape Town Organic Produce Cooperative - Rebecca Freeth
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Date added: 07/31/2007 |
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In this essay submitted for the Sustainable Development Module of the Mphil Programme in 2006, Rebecca Freeth (from Cape Town) provides an analysis from a sustainability perspective of a unique organic produce cooperative that operates in Cape Town. |
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Building Sustainable Communities - Grabouw
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Date added: 01/08/2010 |
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Fleur Boulogne - Building Sustainable Communities: analysing the transition from participatory planning to implementation in the case of the Grabouw Sustainable Development Initiative. Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Mphil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management, 2009. |
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Blake Robinson, Stone Houses, Paarl.
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Date added: 11/29/2009 |
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Blake Robinson: Sustainable Cities 2009 - using a conceptual framework derived from a synthesis of the sustainable cities literature that links ecological sustainability and poverty challenges, this essay includes a case study of the so-called "stone houses" in Paarl that were build for low-income houses using waste materials secured from landfills. |
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Ben Mokheseng - Solar Roof Tiles: A Macro-Economic Model
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Date added: 03/14/2010 |
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Ben Mokheseng - Solar Roof Tiles: A Macro-Economic Model. Thesis submitted in fulfillment of a Mphil in Sustainable Development Planning and Management, March 2010 (passed cum laude). This thesis is a comparable cost effectiveness analysis of two ways of providing energy to one million South African households: one way is to connect these households to coal-fired power via the grid, and the other is to fit them with grid-connected 3 KW solar roof tile systems plus solar hot water heaters. The research showed that over a 20 year life-cycle, it is cheaper to supply them with renewable energy via grid-tied solar roof tiles plus solar water heaters. |
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Ben Mokheseng - Auroville, Ecolonia, Lynedoch
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Date added: 10/01/2009 |
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Ben Mokheseng - Ecological Design 2009: using a synthesis of ecological design theory, the paper reviews three ecologically designed communities - Auroville (India), Ecolonia (Holland) and Lynedoch EcoVillage (South Africa). |
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