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This paper is concerned with the negative impact of leader fault tolerance and focuses on the green silent behavior of employees who remain silent on green production or environmental issues. Data from 386 valid questionnaires were analyzed through SPSS 27.0, AMOS 28 software, and the PROCESS program to explore the impact of leader fault tolerance on employees’ green silent behavior. Based on the reliability and validity analysis, correlation analysis, and validation factor analysis, the study concluded through hierarchical regression analysis that the regression coefficient values of leader fault tolerance on green silent behavior, moral disengagement, and psychological ownership were 0.362, 0.376, and 0.408, respectively, and their p-values were less than 0.01, which verified that leader fault tolerance had a significant positive effect on green silent behavior, moral disengagement, and psychological ownership. After the mediation effect test, the 95% CI of psychological ownership and moral disengagement were [0.057, 0.156] and [0.059, 0.141], respectively, and they did not include 0, which verified that psychological ownership and moral disengagement had a significant indirect effect on leader fault tolerance and employees’ green silent behavior and played a mediating role between them. Based on this, leaders should take appropriate measures to avoid employees’ green silent behavior while using leadership style appropriately. In addition, society should also strengthen the supervision of enterprises so as to encourage enterprises to assume social responsibility and continuously promote the sustainable and healthy development of enterprises and society. Full article

During the last decade, many cities worldwide have implemented various green policies; in this way, they have gradually transformed into “green cities”. The emergence of green cities may provide a promising venue to address cities’ environmental degradation and citizens’ disengagement with current socio-environmental issues, thus giving rise to the notion of Environmental Citizenship (EC). Despite these assumptions, empirical research on the topic is currently emerging. In this study, we examine citizens’ engagement in green cities and its interrelatedness with EC through a systematic literature review. The selected empirical studies (n = 25) were published in peer-reviewed journals during the timespan of the last 12 years (2010–2021). In total, 31 green cities were analyzed in the 25 selected empirical studies. Thematic and frequency analysis revealed that green cities encourage citizens’ engagement with the implemented green policies, while also advancing citizens’ EC. Furthermore, correlational analysis between citizens’ engagement and the Education for Environmental Citizenship (EEC) model revealed that citizens’ engagement with the implemented green policies fosters citizens’ knowledge, skills, attitudes, values, and behaviors, fueling the undertaking of various EC actions. Importantly, green cities have also proved successful in achieving EC’s outcomes leading to sustainability. Full article

Gaining a sustainable environment in the manufacturing sector is dependent upon attracting top talent, providing extensive training, and embedding environmental consciousness throughout the company’s culture. Numerous cases of environmental contamination in the Nigerian manufacturing sector have led to serious health problems, confrontations with local residents, employee disengagement, decreased assurance, and organizational discontent. This study investigated green human resource management (GHRM) and corporate sustainability, focusing on manufacturing companies in Lagos State. Social identity theory was adopted for this research. The methodology used was quantitative research which made use of a questionnaire, and data were collected from 336 employees of various industrial enterprises in Lagos State, Nigeria. The findings of this research showed a significant effect between the antecedents of GHRM and corporate sustainability in the manufacturing industry. The study utilized regression analysis and demonstrated that organizations gain advantages by applying GHRM. Employees exposed to greening abilities and training reduce waste and reuse materials, enhance the firm’s image, attract and retain green customers, and reduce adverse environmental effects to better financial performance. This accomplishment benefits the company and allows employees to develop their own environmentally conscious orientation and projects. Full article

There is an interest in harvesting energy from people’s footsteps in crowded areas to power smart electronic devices with low consumption. The average power consumption of these devices is approximately 10 μW. The energy from our footsteps is green and free, because walking is a routine activity in everyday life. The energy floor is one of the most efficient pieces of equipment in vibration-based energy harvesting. The paper aims to improve the previous design of the energy floor—called Genpath—which uses a rotational electromagnetic (EM) technique to generate electricity from human footsteps. The design consists of two main parts of (1) the EM generator, including the lead-screw mechanism for translation-to-rotation conversion, and (2) the Power Management and Storage (PMS) circuit. The improvement was focused on the part of the EM generator. A thorough investigation of the design components reveals that the EM generator shaft in the previous Genpath design cannot continuously rotate when the floor-tile reaches the bottom end, resulting in no energy gain. Therefore, a one-way clutch is implemented to the system to disengage the generator shaft from the lead-screw motion when the floor-tile reaches the allowable displacement. During the disengagement, the EM generator shaft still proceeds with a free rotation and could generate more power. In our analysis, the dynamic model of the electro-mechanical systems with the one-way clutch was successfully developed and used to predict the energy performances of the VEH floors and fine-tune the design parameters. The analytical result is shown that the spring stiffness mainly affects the force transmitted to the EM generator, and then the induced voltage and power of the generator, thus, the value of the stiffness is one of the critical design parameters to optimize. Finally, the new prototype consisting of 12-V-DC generator, mechanisms of lead-screw and clutch, as well as coil springs with the optimal stiffness of 1700 N/m was built and tested. The average energy produced by the new prototype is 3637 mJ (or average power of 3219 mW), per footstep which is 2935 mJ greater than that of the previous design. Moreover, to raise the social awareness about energy usage, the sets of Genpath have been used to organize an exhibition, “Genpath Empower our Journey”. The people who stroll forward on the paths can realize how much energy they gain from their footsteps. Full article

As society becomes increasingly urbanized, children are becoming much less likely to experience nature. This progressive disengagement from the natural world, often termed the ‘extinction of experience’, has been viewed both as a key public health issue and one of the most fundamental obstacles to halting global environmental degradation. School education has an important role in mitigating and reversing the ongoing extinction of experience. Here, we examine the role of several factors that determine the implementation intensities of nature-based education by science teachers in the classrooms of both primary and secondary schools. We performed a large-scale questionnaire survey comprising 363 elementary and 259 lower-secondary schoolteachers. Several factors predicted the implementation intensity of nature-based education in schools. The most important predictor was teachers’ levels of nature-relatedness, with nature-orientated teachers being more likely to provide nature-based education in their classes. Levels of teachers’ ecological knowledge, frequency of childhood nature experiences, and greenness within the school were also positively associated with the implementation intensity of education. Our results suggest that, to promote nature-based education in schools, it is important to increase schoolteachers’ nature-relatedness and ecological knowledge, as well as to provide more green spaces within schools. Full article

Entrepreneurs with high creativity (i.e., golden apples) are easy to find, but entrepreneurs with green entrepreneurial intention (i.e., green apples) are rare. To explain this phenomenon, we first introduce cognitive dissonance theory to demonstrate how entrepreneurial creativity influences green entrepreneurship through two parallel mechanisms—green recognition and green disengagement. Moreover, we propose the use of green self-identity as a moderator to predict when the relationships between entrepreneurial creativity and these two mechanisms are intensified or attenuated. Through an empirical study, we surveyed 362 entrepreneurs from a local entrepreneurship association in eastern China. The results show that entrepreneurial creativity is positively associated with both green recognition and green disengagement. While green recognition strengthens green entrepreneurial intention, green disengagement weakens green entrepreneurial intention. More importantly, creative entrepreneurs with high green self-identity are more likely to engage in green recognition and, thus, promote green entrepreneurial intention. By contrast, creative entrepreneurs with low green self-identity are more willing to engage in green disengagement and, thus, inhibit green entrepreneurial intention. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for entrepreneurial creativity and green entrepreneurship. Full article