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Júlio J. Conde; Pablo Á. Meira-Cartea – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
The Kigali Amendment introduced a new family of chemical compounds, which do not contribute to stratospheric ozone depletion but present a high global warming potential, under the watch of the Montreal Protocol in 2016. Earlier this year, a press note from the World Meteorological Organization entitled "Ozone layer recovery is on track,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Concepts, Chemistry, Pollution
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Yanchapaxi, María Fernanda; Liboiron, Max; Crocker, Katherine; Smiles, Deondre; Tuck, Eve – Curriculum Inquiry, 2022
The CLEAR lab is an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations. In this interview, María Fernanda Yanchapaxi and Eve Tuck speak with CLEAR lab founder, Max Liboiron, and co-investigators, Katherine Crocker and Deondre Smiles. Together, they explore Indigenous perspectives on climate…
Descriptors: Plastics, Pollution, Laboratories, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Yara Khalaf; Carol Salama; Brenda Kurorwaho; Jessica C. D'eon; Hind A. Al-Abadleh – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The City of Kitchener is the largest city in Waterloo Region in the province of Ontario, the third fasting growing region in Canada, yet it has only one air quality monitoring station. Our research group launched a pilot project in September 2020 to install a network of AQMesh multisensor mini air quality monitoring stations (pods) near elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pollution, Elementary Schools, Outreach Programs
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Bi, Hsiaotao T.; Wang, Dianle – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
A cost-benefit analysis of the AirCare program in the province of British Columbia on the basis of emissions cost factors from the literature showed a benefit outweighing the cost. Furthermore, a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing the AirCare program with a hybrid-car rebate program revealed that the AirCare program is more effective in…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Pollution
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Vasi, Ion Bogdan – Social Forces, 2007
The study of the adoption of activities to protect the natural environment has tended to focus on the role of organizational fields. This article advances existing research by simultaneously examining conflicting processes that operate in nested organizational fields at local, national and supra-national levels. It examines the recent spread of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Local Government, Adoption (Ideas)
Webster, Andrea, Comp.; Sweeney, Seann, Comp. – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2010
This paper includes over 1,250 stories that catalog a broadening and deepening commitment to campus sustainability by colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. The 380-page report categorizes stories from nearly 600 higher education institutions into 24 chapters, spanning education and research, campus operations, and administration and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Environmental Education