Tag: society
Finding the Right Balance
Triple Bottom Line Accounting. The notion is that you account for the economic profits, the environmental impact, and the social costs and benefits; People, Planet, Profit. This was borne out of the idea that we need to do a better job at protecting our natural environments; simply exploiting them for economic gain was going to […]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under economics, environment, sustainability.
Tags: economics, environment, people, planet, society, sustainability, TBL, triple bottom line
Comments: 2
Idling: What is the real cost?
Yesterday while riding home from work I was stopped at a railway crossing for a massive freight train to pass. As the line of cars grew on either side of the train tracks I noticed one thing in common amongst all the drivers, they all left their cars running. What about turning your car off […]
Posted: June 12th, 2009 under cars, Climate Change, Congestion, environment, fuel efficiency, toronto.
Tags: Congestion, driving, environment, fuel efficiency, idling, law, society, toronto
Comments: 3
Technology, Society and The Environment: Week 4
Think origins. How did you learn to talk? Did you learn multiple languages because of your surrounding environments? And your belief system, how did that develop? and your views on the economy? (I question this on the day the US Congress did not pass Bush’s $700 billion bailout?) Vanderburg today regressed and went from modern […]
Posted: September 29th, 2008 under Vanderburg.
Tags: environment, society, technology, Vanderburg
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Technology, Society and The Environment: Week #2
The buzz on campus is still very fresh, students are still excited to be there, still going to class and no one is panicing, yet … mid-terms are not for another couple of weeks. Dr. Vanderburg promptly arrived in class this week and got right into the thick of things. Our class size was about […]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Climate Change, environment, Vanderburg.
Tags: Adam Smith, Climate Change, environment, society, technology, Vanderburg
Comments: 1
Technology, Society and the Enivornment
Although I was nervous this morning, I survived my first day of class … new program, new building and an old friend. My first class, titled above, is taught by Professor W.H. Vanderburg. His passion’s lie in the study of technology, society, biosphere interactions and its application to the development of preventive approaches for the […]
Posted: September 9th, 2008 under environment, technology, Vanderburg.
Tags: engineering, society, sustainability, technology
Comments: 2