...importance of recycling and how we can make a stronger and healthier environment. Organizational Pattern: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Recycling: Why Should You Do It? Attention I. How many of you actually recycle? Recycling has been a topic that has been brought up and thought about by many different people, but the problem the question of whether people are taking action or not on this. Recycling will save many different very important aspects of the environment and economy. II. By learning how to recycle we will be able to develop a much stronger and healthier environment. III. I would like to encourage my classmates to realize how important recycling is and why they should do it. If you do not recycle, in the future this could potentially have devastating...
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...materials. The programs will avoid over 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution in the country between now and 2020. Do they use renewal energy sources? • Apple also uses resources that are naturally renewable and capable of providing energy and materials for a long time. They are also making real progress toward running all facilities on 100 percent clean and renewable energy. Have they reduced their use of energy during manufacturing? • Apple is also working to develop cleaner manufacturing processes that help them create not only great products, but also a better environment. They are making sure that they reuse the energy for the manufacturing processes. Apple’s commitment is to build a renewable solar energy project in Sichuan Province that will generate up to 80 million kilowatt‑hours per year of clean energy. This project is being developed to complement the natural environment. Apple’s improvement in energy efficiency has helped...
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...their internal and external environmental analysis, along with a detailed SWOT analysis. Waste Management’s internal culture must have a clear vision for what the company stands for. Does the company want to focus on recycling? Landfill dumps? Zero waste? A combination? What ever it may be, Waste Management’s upper management must be able to adapt to their internal environment to make these tough decisions. One option, as the case described, send upper and middle level managers to a program that teaches the fundamentals in business. The upper management must realize that without the company employees, and clear communication, Waste Management is inadequate. Have an open discussion with all employees to determine what can be improved on within the company culture. Waste Management’s external environmental analysis shows a trend with customers wanting to recycle, sort at landfills, and ultimately, wanting zero waste. Waste Management is known for their mass land fills, so if they want to compete with companies like Subaru, which has a zero landfill plant, they need to think outside the box scan the environment. So how can Waste Management compete with the other competition? Easy. Listen to the customers. If the company notices an increase in household or company recycling, it is in the best interest for both parties that the company...
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...behind everyday? These are the questions that others should ask themselves because the impact we leave behind is greater than you would think. After keeping a detailed log of my weekly activities I have come to realize that not every action of mine has a negative impact on the earth. Throughout this past week I have narrowed my focus to three main behaviors that I think are crucial factors in determining my carbon footprint: waste production, food consumption, and means of transportation. Given my current living environment on campus paired with being a full-time student here at the university I thought these three daily activities would give me the most accurate results. In regards to my waste production I realized that I recycle a lot when I am in a university building but when I get home I do not recycle at all. I believe the reason for this is accessibility; there are recycling bins everywhere you look in the Pappajohn Business building, which encourages me to recycle any material I can. However when I get home anything I throw away goes straight into the garbage due to the fact that I don't have that same option. According to...
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...Editor’s note: More and more, organizations around the globe recognize their responsibility to protect and sustain the environment. This article describes the benefits of and first steps toward a green computing strategy. Read “HP and the Environment” to learn what HP is doing to reduce its environmental footprint. Faced with the stark realities of global warming and rising energy costs, government agencies and private firms worldwide are examining ways to protect the environment. To address what is increasingly being perceived as a crisis, there is a growing global movement to implement more environmentally friendly computing “Green computing” is the name attached to this movement, which represents an environmentally responsible way to reduce power and environmental waste. Toward this goal, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program has developed compliance requirements for computer equipment. The U.S. House of Representatives Resolution 5646, passed in July 2006, calls for the EPA’s Energy Star program to research: •The amount of power consumed by corporate and federal data centers •Industry measures to develop energy-efficient servers •Possible incentives to convince businesses to use energy-saving technologies In Europe, government agencies have set up a number of environmental regulations addressing waste management, recycling, disposal of certain types of waste, industrial emissions and pollution control. The European Union is also setting up a system...
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...offering something which symbolizes that commitment is more sustainable than just telling them what to do. Similar to The Leadership Challenge, “Ways to Encourage employees to go Green” shares six practices to encourage eco-friendly behavior: 1. Share the vision 2. Start a Green Team 3. Educate Employees 4. Provide Incentives 5. Make it fun 6. Be an example This could be the start of one way to “nudge” others to be eco-friendly. The more individuals that are aware of the importance of environmental responsibility, the more weight we will carry as a group. As consumers there are ways we can demand organizations to become more environmentally friendly. We can: 1. Only buy products that are energy, or water efficient 2. Buy recycle products, recycle or reuse 3. Only but from companies that are environmentally friendly 4. Only buy from companies that are socially responsible Consumer choice drives a market. Without consumers a business cannot survive, therefore businesses must respond to consumer...
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...2012 ChoiceSticks Corn-E Solution for substituting disposal wooden chopsticks Florence Fok Xxxxxxxx 5/28/2012 ChoiceSticks Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................... 1 BUSINESS IDEA ...................................................................................................................................................... 2 PROBLEM ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 SOLUTION.......................................................................................................................................................... 2 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ................................................................................................................... 2 MARKET POTENTIAL .......................................................................................................................................... 4 USERS .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 CUSTOMERS ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 SIZE OF THE MARKET ..............................................
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...| Abstract of unicon investment solutionUnicon customers have the advantage of trading in all the market segments together in the same window, as we understand the need of transactions to be executed with high speed and reduced time. At the same time, they have the advantage of having all Advisory Services for Life Insurance, General Insurance, Mutual Funds and IPO’s also. Unicon is a customer focused financial services organization providing a range of investment solutions to our customers. We work with clients to meet their overall investment objectives and achieve their financial goals. Our clients have the opportunity to get personalized services depending on their investment profiles. Our personalized approach enables clients to achieve their Total Investment Objectives. Our key product offerings are as follows: | | | | | | | Equity | | | Commodity | | | Depository | | | Distribution | | | NRI Services | | | Back Office | | | Fixed Income | | | Investment Banking | | | Currency Derivatives | | | Portfolio Management | | | | What is green management practices….? Since the 1990s, the Sony Group has focused on a variety of environmental activities. These include developing environmentally conscious products, reducing the environmental impact of its sites and promoting product recycling. Since 1998, Sony has formulated uniform environmental mid-term targets that encompass its operations around...
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...Eight Ways To Go Green Some people only get involved in the environment on Earth Day. You can make Earth Day every day by just making a few changes in your daily routine. Not only will you be helping the environment, but you will probably save money in the long run and live a much healthier life. Here are eight ways that you can go green. 1.) Re-Route Your Commute Walking or biking is ideal to get to your job or go to school. Not only is this healthy for the environment, but for you too. If you have to drive, then try to get a group of friends together to cut down on everyone driving separately. Even if you don't want to admit to trying to help the Earth, you have to agree that traveling in a group is WAY more fun than alone. Not only that, but you can cut down on the cost of gas if everyone chips in. 2.) Recycle Smart From electronics to clothing, one person's trash is another person's treasure. Everything can be recycled and should be. If your neighborhood does not do recycling, then petition your county and local governments to get it started. Your school should also recycle and if they don't, talk to the school board. Just one person can make a difference and the result is astounding. 3.) Save Energy Use as much natural light as possible. If you use indoor lights, than only use what is necessary. If you are stepping out of a room for more than 15 minutes, turn off the lights. Refrigerators eat up the most electricity in the household, so maximize efficiency...
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...used for fuel and heating. Paper bags, which many people consider a better alternative to plastic bags, carry their own set of environmental problems. According to many environmentalists, is high-quality reusable shopping bags made of materials that don’t harm the environment during production and don’t need to be discarded after each use. You can find a good selection of high-quality reusable bags. In addition, many organic grocery stores and consumer co-operatives carry reusable shopping bags. The methods of Plastic bags are significantly more environmentally friendly than paper bags. An environmental advocacy group, plastic bags generate 42% less greenhouse gas emissions than un composted paper bags and 68% less greenhouse gas emissions than composted paper bags. Additionally, plastic bags consume less than 6% of the water needed to make paper bags. More than 16 plastic bags can be created for every one paper bag using the same amount of water. Plastic bags consume 71% less energy during production than paper bags. Using paper bags instead of plastic bags generates almost five times more solid waste. Although for the most part, plastic takes less energy to recycle than paper, plastic bags are a frustrating recycling dilemma. The curbside recycling in many communities is not meant for plastic bags because they can screw up the plant's machines. Instead, some stores offer...
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...overall impact on the environment. These practices may include anything from recycling, reducing your energy usage, using public transportation, to buying local products. Going green is quite important to the environment as well as our health. We will be able to breathe a little easier with less pollution in the air. Consider for a moment that a plastic soda bottle takes over 450 years to decompose, and that beer cans take 200 to 500 years to decompose. If these things are not recycled, or if a process isn't found to speed up decomposition, then we're going to wind up living in our own landfills. People all around the world consume billions of bottles and cans each and every single year, without a method to get rid of these items, our great grandchildren will still be seeing those same bottles and cans around, that alone is an important reason to go green. The Going Green Campaign is to ensure the earth will be a better place to live in future. I. INFORMATION ABOUT THE SERVICE The Going Green Campaign has been created to raise the awareness on the environment hazards we are facing today. There are many ways we can save our earth and prevent it from being destroyed. Our earth has lost a massive ideal environment for both animals and human to survive. This is an ironic situation where something must be done to replace for all the damages. II. THE MARKETING STRATEGY A small business using green marketing strategies will not only benefit the environment by its practice, but...
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...mysterious object that countries, politicians and even climate scientist have a hard time defining and identifying the causes and solutions. Plugging in the numbers to the calculator and seeing the results for mine was surprising. The U.S. average is 42,957 and my household with two adults and two cars came out to 26,086. Now I must point out that at this time being unemployed has a benefit to the environment. I have very limited mileage on my Jeep the last year and a half, so that helped my household numbers a lot. We recently purchased a new refrigerator that is energy star approved and that replaced one that was twenty years old. Mother Nature made us replace our furnace a few years ago. We had a flood that left 4.5 feet of water in the basement and causing us to have to replace our oil burning furnace and hot water source. Again it was over twenty years old and we have already seen a huge savings in fuel bills and with the new furnace I am sure a reduction in our carbon footprint. We live in a rural section and you have to pay for garbage service or recycle and burn. We do have a recycle center close that takes everything that can be recycled and for items that can be burned we do burn those items so that may offset some of the savings from recycling. Air conditioning is widow A/C units and we only have the ones on that are needed when we are in those rooms. So overall we are doing pretty good and when I have...
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...pollution. This is done through product and process design. With modifications to the production or manufacturing process of an organization, the entire process will release lesser toxic waste or use lesser energy. Green manufacturing addresses process redundancy, ergonomics, and cost implications due to faulty methods of producing goods (Balan, 2008). A good example of faulty methods of producing goods would be the mining of gold. The mining of gold involves the release of mercury from waste rock when it is exposed to normal temperatures because the evaporation point for mercury is a lot lower than normal metals (Engle MA, Gustin MS, Zhang H, 2001) Once in the atmosphere, it can be deposited in soils and waters, hence causing harm to the environment or the people who would later drink from the water. The Clinton White House defined green manufacturing as a process that reduces human and ecological tasks, enhances, cost effectiveness, improves process efficiency, and creates products and processes that are environmental friendly and benign (President, 1995). Having this stated, green manufacturing is a process that improves productivity, competitiveness, and profitability. The benefits of having a green manufacturing process in an organization’s production are immeasurable. While it may be tough and expensive to implement a greener technology in a production, green technology would nevertheless save a lot of money for an organization. A good example of this would be the production...
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...Introduction Nowadays, the consciousness of environment has increased for past few decades and people know about the environmental issues in the world such as greenhouse effect, global warming, use of toxic substances, and decreasing in non-replenish resources. As we know, Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) has shown up in the last few years. This ideology covers each stage in manufacturing in front to the last stage of lifecycle and from the product design to recycling activity. Besides that, Green Supply Chain Management can also be applied by other parties, such as government, industry, education and so on. After doing some research, we have found that Srivastara (2007) explained the Green Supply Chain Management actually relates to a wide-range of manufacture from product design to reprocesses or destroy. The principium is more likely to the lifecycle of the manufacturer goods while according to the Sean Gilbert (2001) said, the process of incorporating environmental criteria of concerns into organizational purchasing decision and long-term relationship with suppliers is actually act as a way of greening the supply chain (UK Essays, 2014). Brief Description Of The Term “Green Supply Chain Management” Supply chain management can be defined as the management of the flow of goods. It is also the coordination of a complex network of activities, which involved in delivering finished product from point of origin to point of consumption. Except for this definition with...
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...corporation. As we all know that main purpose of corporation is for generating income. However, responsibility is necessary for a corporation. Responsible business is about the positive changes and making valuable contributions to the stakeholders such as the local community, customers, supplier, investor and employee. In other words, company use profits to do well in the world. Also, for any corporation aiming for long term sustainability. There are many responsible business practices that company can apply. In the day to day operations of the business, responsible business practices could apply to several areas. Environment is one of the area, some companies will not do anything if it negatively influences the environment. Others will attempt to strike a balance between earning profits and impacting the environment. Environment always stick with 3 R which are reduce, reuse or recycle resources to minimise negative environmental impacts. One of the way to start this practice, manage business waste for recycling by separating paper, card, plastic, metals and glass prior to collection. Most food businesses also can separate food waste for recycling. Moreover, workplace practices, environmentally friendly workplaces meet the values and expectations of employees as well as other stakeholders. Also, having a positive management approach means striving to be a reasonable, fair and considerate company’s owner. Respect the dignity and human rights of employees. In addition, employees can be...
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