Public lighting in Slovenia is energy intensive. Analyses from 2006 and 2007 show that energy consumption per capita for public lighting in Slovenia was 84kWh, whilst the European average was 50 kWh. Maribor municipality has one of the highest energy consumptions for public lighting in Slovenia (120 kWh percapita). In 2009, Maribor municipality started a pilot project on replacing existing streetlights with light emitting diode (LED) technology, manufactured in Slovenia. This study evaluates the environmental impacts of this public lighting service from the aspects of two different technologies (LED and high pressure sodium (HPS)) lights, during all phases of their life-cycle (production, operation, end-of-life). The LCA (life-cycle assessment) methodology used in this research was based on the ISO 14040 and 14044 series. This study was performed using the LCA software GaBi 4 Professional© and Ecoinvent database. The results from this study will support local decision-makers when seeking a balance between the environmental, financial, and social requirements of public lighting services.
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It is widely acknowledged that environmental literacy, in the early stages of education, can provide a strong foundation for future environmental behaviours, as well as help in the transition towards more sustainable societies. This paper is based upon an evaluation of the environmental attitudes of students in a primary school in rural Slovenia. The attitudes were assessed according to the students' behaviours in their family (primary) and school (secondary) and family contexts. The results show that traditional teaching, in this school, accounts for only one third of the recognised factors that influence the students' environmental behaviours. The other factors that foster environmental behaviours include the primary and secondarysocial environments, the structural and infrastructural condition in the school, and gender, where emotional attitudes play a key role. The authorssuggest that in order to more adequately address the gap between learning and acting, that school administrators, teachers, parents, and othersshould integrate an array of sustainability issues throughout formal andinformal efforts so as to more effectively encourage the development of positive environmental attitudes, and behaviours among their youth and among themselves as role models. Additionally, school principals are urged to improve infrastructural and structural, attitudinal and procedural parameters at the schools and to change the curricula in order to foster pro-environmental behaviours.
COBISS.SI-ID: 15248406
In 2008 the European Council adopted a revised framework for waste management in the EU, with an objective to encourage recycling and reuse of waste, in order to reduce the landfilling and potential environmental emissions. This framework also sets new recycling targets for construction and demolition waste by 2020, suggesting that at least 70 % of the waste should be recycled. Nigrad d.d. is a utility company providing services to several municipalities in North-East Slovenia. These services include a repair of public roads and pavements. This paper examines the origin, amount and fraction of construction waste produced, identifying current waste management practices. Based on the state-of-the art study new approaches are to be proposed, which will enable to decrease environmental impacts and costs, when providing public services and establishing sustainable service systems. To reach this objective a life-cycle analysis of the existing service is was carried out, which will help to identify system parts that have the most significant impact on the environment.
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