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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53870#.VNm4MCzQrzE Author(s)    Dan Zhu 1 , Michael Kung 2 , Liang Zhou 3,4   Affiliation(s) 1 College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA . 2 College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA . 3 School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China . 4 Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA . ABSTRACT This paper explores sustainable energy systems in ecovillages based on the concept of the Zero Energy Building. The cases discussed in this paper include BedZED in the United Kingdom and Masdar City in the Middle East. These two communities contain features characterized by the sustainable principles of the ecovillage concept by using renewable energy and reclaimed materials to reach a low/zero energy system in buildings. The creation of mo...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53713#.VNBuGyzQrzE Author(s)   Negin Vaghefi * , Chamhuri Siwar , Sarah Aziz Abdul Ghani Aziz Affiliation(s) Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia . ABSTRACT Developing countries like most of Islamic countries need an economy that promotes<span "=""> growth and development, conserves natural capital, creates jobs, improves human well-being, and alleviates<span "=""> poverty and inequality. Such an economy is <span "="">called green economy. Main problems that create a hard situation to implement green economy in most of Islamic countries are weak management, increasing poverty, many local and border conflicts, high economic dependency on natural re- sources, and increasing food insecurity. Governments as policy makers could introduce policies, regulat...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52864#.VKtBNcnQrzE Author(s)    Marcela Portocarrero-Aya * , Germán Corzo , Angélica Diaz-Pulido , María Fernanda González , Magnolia Longo , Lina Mesa , Andrea Paz , Wilson Ramírez , Olga Lucía Hernández-Manrique Affiliation(s) Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources, Bogotá, Colombia . ABSTRACT Colombian ecosystems maintain key ecological processes that support thousands of species, including human beings. With the expansion of the country’s population, and the implementation of a government’s development plan based on an economy centred on extraction patterns, the conservation of the...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51212#.VFw7O2fHRK0 Author(s) Ayşe Okvuran Affiliation(s) Faculty of Education, Ankara University Ankara, Ankara, Turkey . ABSTRACT Cultural sustainability is a very important concept. Drama can be considered in the area of cultural sustainability as well. Throughout the history of Turkish education, learning drama gained importance both in educational sciences as a teaching method and in arts education. The years of 1980s-1990s-2000s-2010s can be accepted as appropriate years to analyze the sustainability of drama. The purposes of this study are to obtain opinions of experts coming from different decades; to conduct interviews; ...