This study investigates the impact of sustainable design practices on the visual elements of websites, with a focus on their potential to mitigate environmental harm. The principal area of interest is efficiency - designing web pages to minimize energy usage.  In pursuit of sustainable design principles, websites from companies and organizations that advocate for the environment were analyzed. This was done to determine whether these websites are implementing sustainable design principles within their visual elements. Two custom React web pages were subsequently developed: one implementing design principles from the analyzed websites and the other integrating sustainable design principles. Standardized tools and metrics, including Ecograder, Google Lighthouse, and Google PageSpeed Insights, were used to assess the performance and energy efficiency of these pages in order to measure any discrepancies. From previous research, the results identified five most common design principles as principal considerations in website design. Interestingly, many of the companies/organizations were found to partially or completely disregard these sustainable design principles in their web pages. Additionally, the React web page that incorporated sustainable design principles demonstrated a significantly lighter page weight compared to its modern design counterpart, resulting in less energy usage. Further research is needed though to corroborate these results due to the limitations of the measurements in this study.

<p>The<em> Purpose </em>of this study was to examine what knowledge and which attitudes there are about environmental friendly food in the society. To do so an essay were constructed and distributed to five different working places. Altogether there were 50 essays distributed and 43 were returned. <em>The main result; </em>the respondents think that it is important for people to learn how to consume food in a more environmentally friendly way. The majority of the respondents recognized the eco-label KRAV but the European eco-label and Demeter were not recognized in a less extent. Few of the respondents knew what GMO stands for. Over half of the respondents thought that it is pretty important/important or very important to buy ecological food but only one third of them said that they commonly/always buy ecologic food. Slightly more than one third was shore that they could contribute to an environmental friendly development by consuming ecological food. <em>Conclusion:</em> the respondents know too little about what the eco-labels stands for. Far from everyone is convinced that it actually is environmental friendly to buy environmental friendly food.</p>

Production and use of hydraulic ester oil is on the increase worldwide. This becomes a substitute to mineral based hydraulic oil and has drawn more concern because of its more friendly environmental effects. Based on the growing use of hydraulic ester oils in automobiles, transformation of fresh and old hydraulic ester oil was studied in a podsol soil (soil 1) and a clayey soil (soil 2). Functional groups present in the oil and effect of soil types on transformation of the oil were also determined. Replicates of the two soils types were contaminated with fresh or old ester based hydraulic fluid. The oils were recovered from the soil by extraction with acetone. The organic phase was evaporated to dryness, and a small drop of the resulting extract was used for Fourier Transformation Infra Red Spectrometer analysis. The remaining extract was dissolved in hexane and analyzed by gas chromatography. Different intermediate compound patterns were observed in the two studied soils during the transformation studies, which went on for 30 days. Aliphatic-, carbonyl-, aromatic- and ether- groups were the main functional groups present in the tested hydraulic ester oils. Presence or absence of these functional groups distinguishes ester oil from mineral oil.

The Purpose of this study was to examine what knowledge and which attitudes there are about environmental friendly food in the society. To do so an essay were constructed and distributed to five different working places. Altogether there were 50 essays distributed and 43 were returned. The main result; the respondents think that it is important for people to learn how to consume food in a more environmentally friendly way. The majority of the respondents recognized the eco-label KRAV but the European eco-label and Demeter were not recognized in a less extent. Few of the respondents knew what GMO stands for. Over half of the respondents thought that it is pretty important/important or very important to buy ecological food but only one third of them said that they commonly/always buy ecologic food. Slightly more than one third was shore that they could contribute to an environmental friendly development by consuming ecological food. Conclusion: the respondents know too little about what the eco-labels stands for. Far from everyone is convinced that it actually is environmental friendly to buy environmental friendly food.

Aim: The concept of CSR is getting more attention among various fields but there has been a lack of research in enhancing the awareness of CSR within the field of retailing. In order to fill this gap, the aim of this study is to investigate the significance of CSR and green marketing (ecological labels) in the business of retailing while evaluating the affect of it on consumer behavior.   Method: Case study research method is opted for this study to answer “why” and “how” questions. Furthermore, quantitative data has been collected through in store and online customer interview. The research data is analysed by using Microsoft Office Excel.   Result &amp; Conclusions: The result shows that CSR is well incorporated and practiced by ICA Kvantum, AB. Their business philosophy is focused on customer, product, environment, diversity and community. They provide environmental and organic products by abiding the rules and law of goods production that also protects the environment. Moreover, the quantitative study reveals that Swedish female consumer between the ages of 26-35 are more responsible towards environment. It also shows that most of the consumers are still buying conventional (non-ecological) products and majority of them don’t check eco-labels before purchasing but they are willing to pay more for ecological and organic foods. Thus, CSR and green marketing affects consumer buying behavior through different ways.   Suggestions for future research: The similar research can be performed by adopting qualitative data from company’s experts to record their perspective about CSR and green marketing. Moreover, it would be interesting to investigate multiple retail companies operating in different cities. Furthermore, it could give innovative results, if the study investigates the link of trust and loyalty on consumer behavior, as they are the key components in consumer purchase decision.   Contribution of the study: This study identifies and explains the concept of CSR and the important elements of CSR in grocery retailing. The novel concept of green marketing and ecological products has been studied in relation to consumer behavior. The investigation of CSR and green marketing on consumer behavior is a unique combination which has not investigated extensively within the field of grocery retailing.

The work concerned with the sustainable development of tourism and its friendly forms. The issue is applied to the example of the protected area Křivoklátsko. The aim of Diploma Thesis is to evaluate the current status and potential of sustainable tourism development, including mapping the availability of sustainable forms of tourism within the protected area Křivoklátsko and outline prospects, potential and opportunities for further development. The theoretical part defines the concept of sustainable development, definition, indicators and principles on which it is based issues in general as well as in relation to tourism. In the practical part the region as a tourism destination: the attractiveness of the area, živostní environment, material and technical base, sound forms of tourism and development potential. Part of the work is the analysis of the potential for sustainable tourism development of the protected landscape area Křivoklátsko made on the basis of survey among entrepreneurs in tourism, tourists, residents and county public administration bodies. The overall assessment of the status and potential of sustainable tourism development in the region is used and SWOT analysis.

Enligt FN använder byggsektorn 40 % av de globala resurserna (UNEP - Buildings, 2017).Byggbranschen har stor inverkan på dagens samhälle och på byggarbetsplatser cirkulerar mångakemiska ämnen. JM använder liksom övriga i sektorn mycket byggmaterial. Materialet som användskan innehålla kemikalier som är skadliga för människa och miljö, det vill JM ändra på. JM strävarefter att fasa ut material med farliga egenskaper men kommunikationen med tillverkare ochleverantörer försvårar i vissa fall arbetet.Syftet med rapporten är att undersöka vilka alternativ JM har för att komma fram till smidigarelösningar vid byte av material och att undersöka hur kommunikationen är mellan JM och tillverkarna.Målet med studien är att komma fram till smidiga lösningar för hur JM snabbare och enklare skakunna byta ut material till mer miljövänliga alternativ.För att komma fram till ett resultat har författarna till rapporten genomfört intervjuer, litteraturstudieroch gjort efterforskningar i JMs miljövarudatabas. Resultatet av studien är att kommunikationenmellan JM och leverantörerna kan förbättras, från båda sidor. Det framkom också att ett effektivt sättatt byta ut produkter till mer miljövänliga är att regelbundet ha kontakt med leverantörerna. Ytterligareett sätt för att ta fram en miljövänlig produkt är att flera branschledande företag arbetar tillsammans. / According to the UN the building sector uses 40 % of the global resources (UNEP - Buildings, 2017).The construction industry has a major impact on the society and on building sites there are manychemical substances in circulation. Like the rest of the sector JM uses a lot of construction materials.The used material may contain chemicals that are harmful to humans and the environment which issomething that JM wants to change. JM strives to eliminate the use of materials with hazardouscharacteristics but the communication with suppliers and subcontracts complicates the work, in somecases.The purpose of the report is to investigate what options JM has in order to find flexible solutions formaterial replacement and to investigate how the communication is between JM and the manufacturers.The aim of the report is to achieve a solution for how to JM faster and more simply should exchangematerials with more environmentally friendly alternativesTo achieve a result the researchers of this report have conducted interviews, literature studies andinvestigations in JMs environmental product database. The result of the study is that communicationbetween JM and the suppliers could improve from both sides. It was also found that an effective wayto switch products to more environmentally friendly alternatives is to keep a regularly contact with thesuppliers. Another way to develop an environmentally friendly product is through the cooperation ofseveral industry-leading companies.

In 2016, it is no longer possible to deny the existence of global warming and its harmful effects on our planet and the environment. Not only experts, but also consumers, have become increasingly concerned about the environment. This increased awareness and concern has increased consumers’ interest in purchasing environmentally friendly food products, and has caused companies to focus on programs intent on reducing their environmental impact and helping the environment. Companies have introduced more environmentally friendly food products, accessible on a large scale, and have changed their communication to focus more on green products and green product attributes. Scandinavian countries have some of the largest numbers of organic food consumers in Europe and the world, with the Swedish organic food industry measuring the highest growth rate in organic food sales in 2015. Therefore, this study focuses on the Swedish green food industry. A major way for companies to make consumers aware of their available environmentally friendly food products is through green advertising. An increasingly frequent problem, however, is that consumers tend to distrust these green ads. They have knowledge of green washing practices and misleading information in green advertising. In this thesis, the relationships between green consumerism, green washing and green advertising skepticism were investigated. The potential relationship between demographic factors such as gender, age, income and level and area of study, and green advertising skepticism were tested as well. A research model with three main hypotheses was used in this thesis. The results showed a significant relationship between green consumerism and green advertising skepticism when green washing was a moderator. There was also a significant negative relationship between attitude towards green products and green advertising skepticism and a positive relationship between environmental concern and green advertising skepticism. There existed no significant relationship between the tested demographic factors and green advertising skepticism in the Swedish green food industry.

Since the discovery of graphene, substantial effort has been put toward the synthesis and production of 2D materials. Developing scalable methods for the production of high-quality exfoliated nanosheets has proved a significant challenge. To date, the most promising scalable method for achieving these materials is through the liquid-based exfoliation (LBE) of nanosheetsin solvents. Thin films of nanosheets in dispersion can be modified with additives to produce 2D inks for printed electronics using inkjet printing. This is the most promising method for the deposition of such materials onto any substrate on an industrial production level. Although well-developed metallic and organic printed electronic inks exist on the market, there is still a need to improve or develop new inks based on semiconductor materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) that are stable, have good jetting conditions and deliver good printing quality.The inertness and mechanical properties of layered materials such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) make them ideally suited for printed electronics and solution processing. In addition,the high electron mobility of the layered semiconductors, make them a candidate to become a high-performance semiconductor material in printed electronics. Together, these features make MoS2 a simple and robust material with good semiconducting properties that is also suitable for solution coating and printing. It is also environmentally safe.The method described in this thesis could be easily employed to exfoliate many types of 2D materials in liquids. It consists of two exfoliation steps, one based on mechanical exfoliation of the bulk powder utilizing sand paper, and the other inthe liquid dispersion, using probe sonication to liquid-exfoliate the nanosheets. The dispersions, which were prepared in surfactant solution, were decanted, and the supernatant was collected and used for printing tests performed with a Dimatix inkjetprinter. The printing test shows that it is possible to use the MoS2 dispersion as a printed electronics inkjet ink and that optimization for specific printer and substrate combinations should be performed. There should also be advances in ink development, which would improve the drop formation and break-off at the inkjet printing nozzles, the ink jetting and, consequently, the printing quality. / Sedan upptäckten av grafen har mycket arbete lagts på framställning och produktion av 2D-material. En viktig uppgift har varit att ta fram skalbara metoder för produktion av högkvalitativa  nanosheets via exfoliering. Den mest lovande skalbarametoden hittills har varit vätskebaserad exfoliering av nanosheets i lösningsmedel. Tunna filmer av nanosheets i dispersion kan anpassas med hjälp av tillsatser och användas för tillverkning av halvledare strukturer med inkjet-skrivare, vilket är den mest lovande metoden för på en industriell produktions nivå beläggaden typen av material på substrat. Även om det finns välutvecklade metalliska och organiskabläck för tryckt elektronik, så finns det fortfarande ett behov av att förbättra eller utveckla nya bläck baserade på halvledarmaterial som t.ex. TMD, som är stabila, har goda bestryknings  egenskaper och ger bra tryckkvalitet. Den inerta naturen tillsammans med de mekaniska egenskaperna som finns hosskiktade material, som t.ex. molybdendisulfid (MoS2), gör demlämpliga för flexibel elektronik och bearbetning i lösning. Dessutom gör den höga elektronmobiliteten i dessa 2D-halvledaredem till en stark kandidat som halvledarmaterial inom trycktelektronik. Det betyder att MoS2 är ett enkelt och robust material med goda halvledaregenskaper som är lämpligt för bestrykning från lösning och tryck, och är miljömässigt säker.Den metod som beskrivs här kan med fördel användas föratt exfoliera alla typer av 2D-material i lösning. Exfolieringensker i två steg; först mekanisk exfoliering av torr bulk med sandpapper, därefter används ultraljudsbehandling i lösning för att exfoliera nanosheets. De dispersioner som framställts i lösning med surfaktanter dekanterades och det övre skiktetanvändes i trycktester med en Dimatix inkjet-skrivare.Tryckprovet visar att det är möjligt att använda MoS2 -dispersion som ett inkjet-bläck och att optimering för särskildaskrivar- och substratkombinationer borde göras, såsom förbättringav bläcksammansättningen med avseende på droppbildning och break-off vid skrivarmunstycket, vilket i sin tur skulleförbättra tryckkvaliteten. / KM2 / Paper Solar Cells

Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslai tai viso pasaulio valstybių indėlis, sprendžiant visuotines problemas ir užtikrinant kiekvienos šalies gyventojų gyvenimo sąlygas atsižvelgiant į aplinkos tausojimą bei darnaus vystymosi užtikrinimą. Šio darbo tikslas ir yra išanalizuoti bei įvertinti aplinkosauginių Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslų įgyvendinimą Lietuvoje 1990-2008 metų laikotarpius. Siekiant įvertinti gyventojų nuostatas bei požiūrį Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslų atžvilgiu, buvo atliekama gyventojų apklausa, sudaryto klausimyno pagalba. Kiekvienos valstybės padėtį, įgyvendinant Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslus nusako numatytų rodiklių įgyvendinimo lygis. Lietuvoje, siekiant užtikrinti darnią aplinkos apsaugą yra stebimi šie rodikliai: miškingos ir saugomų teritorijų dalis, biologinės įvairovės ir rūšių, kurioms gresia išnykimas išsaugojimas, anglies dioksido dujų ir ozono pirmtakų emisija bei bendras vandens išteklių suvartojimas šalyje. Atskaitos taškas, nuo kada stebimas rodiklių kitimas yra 1990 metai, o numatyti tikslai turi būti pasiekti, pagal Tūkstantmečio deklaraciją, iki 2015 metų. Vykdant gyventojų apklausą buvo nustatyta, jog didžioji dauguma, 74 % apklaustųjų, nėra girdėję apie Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslus. 26 % respondentų, kurie žino, apie šiuos pasaulinius tikslus yra įgiję universitetinį išsilavinimą (67 %). Atliekant rangavimą, gyventojų nuomone svarbiausi Tūkstantmečio vystymosi tikslai yra skurdo ir bado panaikinimas pasaulyje, vaikų mirtingumo mažinimas... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Millennium development goals – all world countries input in solving universal problems and assuring living conditions for every country‘s citizens, also considering environment and sustainable development aspects. The aim of this work is to analyse and evaluate the implementation of environmental Millennium development goals in Lithuania during 1990-2008. In order to evaluate people attitudes in regard to Millennium development goals, population survey was conducted, with the help of questionnaire. Implementation level of foreseen indicators indicates every country’s progress in implementing Millennium development goals. In Lithuania, pursuing to assure sustainable environment protection, such indicators are observed: parts of forested and protected territories, protection of biological diversity and species, which are at risk of extinction, emission of carbon dioxide and ozone prosecutors and general water consumption in the country. Year 1990 is a starting point. According to Millennium declaration, the intended aims must be reached up to 2015. Survey reveals that the majority – 74 % of respondents have not heard about Millennium development goals. 26 % of respondents, who are aware of those global aims, hold a university degree (67 %). In citizens’ opinion, most important Millennium development goals are elimination of poverty and hunger in the world, reducing of children’s death-rate and assurance of friendly environment. These aims were named as very important by... [to full text]