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48.
World Bank studies have shown that underdevelopment is often due to:
49.
Petroleum, a relatively cheap nonrenewable energy source, is:
50.
Four countries processing oil-bearing shale are:
51.
Heavy oil is:
52.
As an energy source, nuclear power:
53.
Coal pollutes heavily:
54.
Renewable energy:
55.
Although the growth rates of nonrenewable energy sources slowed after the 2009 global
financial crisis:
56.
Natural gas:
57.
Environmental sustainability is both local and global because:
58.
The three characteristics of evolving sustainable business practices are:
59.
Sam Palmisano, CEO of IBM, has described a new way of doing business that goes to
equity of distribution by observing that:
60.
Stakeholder theory is an understanding of how business works when it:
61.
A way to measure a company's success in meeting its sustainable business goals is to:
62.
One value of life cycle assessment is:
63.
Cradle-to-cradle (C-2-C) design:
64.
Proximity is a factor in explaining:
65.
Climate is probably the most important element of the physical forces as it sets the limits
on:
66.
The main transportation artery of Europe is the:
67.
Inland waterways provide inexpensive access to interior markets and are significant in
every continent except:
68.
Australia's topography is:
69.
The North-South divide draws on climatic differences to explain:
70.
Studies conducted by the World Bank indicate that tropical climates allow for:
71.
Natural resources are anything:
72.
Energy consumption by fuel type reveals that fuel use has been dominated since 2010 by:
73.
The significance of oil's peak production is that:
74.
Unconventional sources of petroleum such as oil sands and shale are often grouped
together and referred to as:
75.
This material, when heated, will yield up to 25 liters or more per ton of input.
76.
Oil reserves and oil exploration are influenced by:
77.
An LCA conducted for a T-shirt convinced Patagonia that:
78.
Instead of declining, this nonrenewable energy source, because of its lack of pollution and
the generally rising price of oil, has seen significant growth.
79.
Although it pollutes heavily, this energy source is on the rise everywhere, especially in
China.
80.
The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), unlike the Kyoto Protocol, a UN convention on
climate change, is
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This is the cleanest of the nonrenewable fuel sources, and it has become a substitute for
oil.
82.
This area leads the world in environmentally sustainability.
83.
Geothermal power is:
84.
Backward integration can be used as a way to:
85.
China's vast and mountainous terrain leads to:
86.
Deserts and tropical forests seem to be opposites, but they have this trait in common.
87.
Triple bottom-line (3BL) accounting is not a framework for sustainability because:
