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Artificial intelligence (AI) has significant potential to enhance resource efficiency and reduce environmental costs. Nevertheless, AI systems-especially large language models (LLM)-are energy-intensive and resource-demanding. The ecological cost stems not only from the energy required for training and inference, but also from the infrastructure needed to sustain AI operations, including data centers and cloud services. From a socio-psychological point of view, it is extremely relevant to understand what beliefs i...

Food waste contributes significantly to climate and environmental degradation. According to recent estimates, food loss and waste account for 8-10% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. A number of studies have investigated individuals- willingness to pay (WTP) in relation to voluntary certification schemes pertaining to various ethical attributes, including locally grown, fair trade, organic, and so forth. The impact of a voluntary certification scheme about reducing food waste-and the higher price peopl...

The topic of sustainable mobility has been prioritized on the EU-s political agenda, with the goal of lowering CO2 emissions and air pollution. This goal entails the introduction of low-polluting cars, such as those driven by an electric battery (BEV), into the EU car market. The current investigation was guided by the theory of planned behavior (TPB): The three main TPB constructs-attitudes, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control-as well as the intention to purchase a BEV have been measured. In additio...