Fighting Food Waste With Portion Sizes
Problem Statement: The US wastes nearly 40% of our food, creating 125-160 billion pounds of waste annually, leading to high emission rates, resource depletion, and food insecurity. Research Question: What are the most effective waste mitigation and management strategies in the restaurant industry that could be utilized to produce a…
Sustainable Residential Microgrid with Permaculture – A Building Block in Sustainable Communities of the Future
Established initially as a research station by the Bucknell University Sustainable Energy Research Team (BUSERT), the microgrid was created to demonstrate off-grid operation of a residential home using the power systems of a PV Array and natural gas generator to supplement typical grid power. Over the past six years the…
A Cross-disciplinary Analysis of Sustainability and Business Performance: Finding New Metrics
At the intersection of the operations management and financial reporting literature, the importance of impact measurement of activities towards operational excellence has long been recognized. Of specific interest are effects on financial performance of continuous improvement frameworks that target quality (e.g. Total Quality Management (TQM), Six Sigma, ISO9000, Corbett et…
Democracy Defeated Discursively: Andrew Wheeler and the Deregulation of the Fossil Fuel Industry
With over 70% of the U.S. population believing that climate change is a serious problem that merits immediate confrontation, it is both surprising and a serious ecological threat that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) furthered over 50 deregulatory actions during the Trump Presidency. While previous research has mostly focused on…
Technology Enabled 6Rs Framework for Global Sustainability
The Covid 19 pandemic, ongoing climate change challenges and the demand for racial justice and equity has resulted in a renewed interest on sustainable development and global sustainability. Progressive organizations are integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact investments, disclosures and reporting into their management for purposeful stakeholders (employees, customers…