Existing approaches for encouraging pro-environmental behavior among consumers too often fall woefully short.
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"We know that there has been bad environmental behavior by the company, " Pulgar-Vidal said of Pluspetrol in a radio interview.
To find out, I tracked hundreds of articles in The Wall Street Journal for relevant press coverage on responsible and irresponsible environmental behavior by U.S. publicly-traded companies from 1980 to 2009.
The idea is to use a team of volunteers to develop a crowdsourced website for responsible shopping, where user-generated information about corporate social and environmental behavior is reviewed by peers and organized into simple scores.
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What are the practical implications of all this evidence for the physical, genetic and environmental roots of violent behavior?
Given the transparency of the marketplace, not to mention the tumultuous dynamics of the marketplace over these past few years, consumers are now placing increasing demands on companies relative to their behavior regarding everything from social and environmental responsibility to the treatment of those who work for them.
All this is evidence that access to new environmental information that is accurate, comprehensible and reliable can lead to significant changes in consumer behavior.
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Smarr is filling a nature reserve at UC Irvine with sensors to transmit environmental data to San Diego supercomputers, which are modeling weather patterns, seismic activity and behavior of animal populations.
As for environmental factors that affect the young brain, lead is neurotoxic and particularly damages the prefrontal region, which regulates behavior.
This "environmental determinism, " as housing historian Alexander von Hoffman calls it, led reformers to try to improve the behavior and prospects of the poor by replacing the slum environment altogether.
As long as a proper cap is in place that creates a value for environmental scarcity, carbon trading can be very effective in redirecting investments towards lower-carbon activities and in making human behavior more environmentally sustainable.
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