...Supply Chains going Green Name Institutional affiliation Date The discussion of supply chains going green has become a bone of contention among major stakeholders in the industry. The discussion started after the Carbon disclosure project released a report indicating that supply chains contributed greatly to the emission of carbon in the atmosphere. Due to the report, pressure has been mounting on the administration of supply chains to implement strategies on their carbon management. Analysts have however stated that there are various pros and cons of the supply chains going green, which have to be considered in the implementation of carbon management strategies. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of supply chains going green. Advantages of supply chains going green Improvement in financial performance over time There are various benefits associated with companies going green. One of the benefits of supply chains going green is the positive impact that it has on the financial performance of the supply chain. Despite the myth that cutting carbon emissions increases expense, there is evidence that cutting on carbon emissions has a great impact on cutting expenses of the supply chains. Through a systematic approach to the manner in which the supply chains operate, it is possible for the administration to analyze how carbon management strategies will cut costs for their organization. Through empirical evidence from...
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...Going Green Improving for a Better Tomorrow Brandi Long 04/21/2015 E227 Global Solutions’ MEMORANDUM To: Global Solutions Management From: Brandi Long Date: April 20, 2015 Subject: Going green to improve for a better tomorrow Attached is a report that was requested in regards to Global Solutions going green in order to reduce our Carbon Footprint. After reading this attachment, you will see the many benefits that are offered and how the methods are easily assessable in order for our company to follow for an improved greener living community. The changes will require efforts from both employees and superiors to make in order for the process to run smooth. Although, making these changes should have no effect on our day to day routine once a schedule is put into place. Yes, the changes will be at a cost but after sometime the company will ultimately save, and save room for more profit. We can help the environment and people’s lives everyday in many ways. I want to thank you in advance for giving me the opportunity to purpose a go-green working environment. Kindest Regards, Brandi Long Table of Contents PAGE Letter of Transmittal 2 Introduction Background of the Problem 4 Statement of the Problem 4 Sources and Methods 4 Report Organization ...
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...Mohammad Chughtai | Assignment # 5 – Essay | MKT 410 – F13 | 9/24/2013 | The Green Revolution Al Gore spoke a few days ago at the world’s Social Good Summit about an issue that has become commonplace in today’s media: global warming. We know much of Gore’s bid for presidency in 1999, in which he ran – unsuccessfully - on a platform of responsible energy consumption. Fourteen years later, Gore is still arguing the same points, but with increased vigor. Its no surprise that after fourteen years of heavy campaigning, many Americans are well aware of the issue; in fact, many have changed their buying habits to reflect this growing concern – one the private sector has not failed to capitalize on. In this essay, I will attempt to first define global warming, touch on the “going green” movement and how it’s affecting consumer buying habits, explain how the car industry is being affected and the describe some of the motivations a company may have to “go green.” What is global warming? As with any business discussion, we must first understand the topic being discussed. Global warming debate has becoming increasingly prevalent in news media, T.V. shows and popular culture in the past few decades. Defined as an increase in the overall temperature of the earth, global warming is a topic that has been debated furiously from both sides. The EPA estimates that the earth’s temperature has risen by 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit over the past century. While this may not seem like much...
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...Topic: Going Green Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to go green. Thesis Statement: Going green will make a difference Introduction I. Attention material: Have you ever heard of big companies, you're school, or a neighbor going green? Being Eco-friendly/going green will help animals, humans, and the world. II. Tie to the audience: There are tons of reasons why we should all be informed on why going green benefits almost everything and anything. III. Credibility material: I recently have gone green and it has not only effected my life, but the life of those around me. IV. Thesis/Preview: Going green will definitely make a difference Body I. Main point #1 There are many steps we are going to need to take to help prevent the Earth from being destroyed A. By not going green we have led to global warming, we burn fossil fuels and other things that have caused an increase in carbon dioxide. 1. Landfills are all over the place and filled with ridiculously amounts of trash, we humans throw out tons of trash daily. It takes years and year to decompose some items that are thrown into the trash. 2. Simple things can make a difference, such as, making sure to always turn off lights and electronics when you leave a room. B. By doing this you'll be saving electricity 1. Recycling paper while being in school, plastic after finishing your lunch, aluminum after an arts and crafts project, almost anything can be recycled. You can also buy recycled projects. a. Recycling...
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...Why Go Green in the Hospitality Field Shelby Little RES/351 October 12, 2015 John Gilpin Why Go Green in the Hospitality Field I was recently put in charge of guaranteeing that the hotel I work for is classified as a green hotel. Several changes were put in place that helped to bring this into play. This paper is designed to explain what “Going Green” is and why it is so important. Environmentalism has become a great concern to businesses; this is being influenced by the recent jump in energy prices. Several different environmental and scientific agencies have supplied data to prove this point. The Hotel industry is no different. It has been shown that the industry would benefit immensely from the recent campaign for all businesses to "Go Green." Unfortunately, management in the Hospitality has resisted the changes. However, recently the Hospitality industry is catching up to other industries and is converting their operations to greener strategies. Hotels demand meticulous standards and are trying to keep up with guests’ concerns and demand on a cleanliness level. Because of these standards, cleaning and waste products, and how they are disposed of have become a main issue. Energy efficiency in the hotel industry can tend to be difficult due to safety concerns that the management must be attentive to. These issues include being able to keep the common areas and lobbies well-lit at all times. In various states, it may also include cooling and heating issues. The...
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...| The article I’ve chosen is “Going Green”, an article featured in the Safety & Health Magazine. The article discusses the not-so ongoing challenges of going green. How business continually seek ways to improve their safety measurements with products that are reliable and provide maximum protection. The questions proposed in the article “how can you take your safety program to the next level?” and “How about product solutions that not only protect the workplace, but also protect the environment and support a company’s overall sustainability program?” Well implementing green safety products is easier then thought. Majority of distribution is a wide selection of sustainable safety products that you can choose from, including safety and traffic signs, personal protective equipment, lockout/tag-out, and many others. Green safety products offer the same guarantee as their non-eco counterparts in meeting OSHA regulatory standards and maximizing workplace protection. Quality is not lessened using green materials, and they provide the same performance requirements at competitive prices. As stated in the article green safety products bring equal value to corporate safety programs but with many more advantages than that of traditional safety products. One of the biggest advantages is that green safety products protect the environment. So the impact on the environment can be significant. It just makes sense for companies to go green. Green safety products can take a safety program...
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...Eaton Pharmaceutical CONTENTS FIGURES iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY iv Introduction 2 Goal of the Study 2 Methods and Procedures Used 2 Why Should the company go green List of green vehicles Reasons for going green Employee Reaction to Going Green Benefits to Going Green 2 Benefits to the business 3 Benefits to the Community 3 Benefits to the Employees 3 Summary, Conclusions, and Recommendations 7 REFERENCES 9 FIGURES 1 Fuel economy of the different vehicles……………………………………….6 2 Cost you save having a green vehicle ………………………………………...7 3 Miles per gallon ………………………………………………………………………? EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Eaton Pharmaceutical has decided to buy new vehicles for their sales teams. The company feels by going green in the near future will save them money in the long run. This can help lower the emission of CO2 by going green. Research was conducted in two ways: (1) A survey was conducted to the company’s four hundred employees, and (2) information about implementing a volunteer program was obtained from reputable websites. The report addressed the following questions: (1) what is the best vehicle for going green? (2) How does going green benefit the company? (3) Is it really worth going green? (4) How would employees react to going green? The research conducted that all parties involved in the volunteer program will benefit from it. Volunteer programs are a great way to increase a company’s public image while satisfying the...
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...| Green Bank Report: Finding the best green banking deals and rates * Home * Eco-Friendly Banking * iPhone * Green Bank Deals * Credit Cards * Savings Rates * Checking Accounts * CD Rates What is the Meaning of Green Banking? Posted by Clark Schultz on Friday, September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment Defining green banking is relatively easy. It means promoting environmental-friendly practices and reducing your carbon footprint from your banking activities. This comes in many forms. Using online banking instead of branch banking. Paying bills online instead of mailing them. Opening up CDs and money market accounts at online banks, instead of large multi-branch banks. Or finding the local bank in your area that is taking the biggest steps to support local green initiatives. Any combination of the above personal banking practices can help the environment. So this leads to the question, which banks are green. In general, online banks and smaller community banks have better track record than larger banks. For instance, take a look at the banks that British Petroleum has been reported to seek lines of credit from this past summer after the oil spill. Goldman Sachs (GS) Citigroup (C) JP Morgan (JPM) Bank of America (BAC) These banks have at least one thing in common. That is, they are all large billion-dollar asset banks. They are also in the group of banks that received TARP money in the government bank bailout program. In would seem common...
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...The Earth is yours. Save it! The Earth is yours. Save it! Name : Sanelisiwe Gomomo Laetitia Ngalula Aviwe Janeth Viwe Introduction What does it mean to Go Green? Going Green means that you have adopted certain practices and habits that reduce your 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...
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...The Fault in Our Stars John Green “That’s the thing about pain” Augustus said “It demands to be felt” (10, Green). Who among us has been plagued with feelings? For most teenagers it seems par for their course, but this is especially true for the two main characters Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters of the novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It is about the reality of two young teenagers facing love, life, and death in a different way than most people. The story of Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters proves and exposes the realistic lives of what people with cancer experience, the love two people can share, and the depressing truth of death. John Green was able to capture the truth behind these three phenomenons through his own personal journey with a young girl named Esther Earl in which he helped her face cancer, love, and death. There is time when the word “cancer” is too heavy of a word for some people to pronounce, knowing people who have lost their lives to it or are suffering through it at this very moment. Imagine a person living with cancer, most people see a hairless and lifeless human being just waiting for their time. The Fault in Our Stars shows the truth behind real cancer patients and how they live their lives. Although people living with cancer may have obstacles or they are unable to do certain things all people have that challenge for something and that’s what John Green wanted to prove. Hazel Grace is 16 years old living...
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...GREEN, GREEN GARDEN CONCEPT: “Food comes from plants. Plants grow in a garden.” OBJECTIVE/STANDARD: Students will be able to grow a variety of vegetables in cups in the classroom setting. Observe the seeds to determine the needs of the seeds so that they grow into a healthy plant. SKCS6. The Nature of Science: Students will understand the important features of the process of scientific inquiry. Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices: SKCS6.c. Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them. MATERIALS: Potting soil, 6 oz. plastic cups, seeds from “common” vegetables that the children will recognize, permanent marker to label the cups, scissors, water pitcher, science notebook, crayons. ADVANCED PREPARATION: 1. Bring in the book A Green, Green Garden by Mercer Mayer. 2. Collect all materials and bring to classroom. 3. Punch a few small holes in the bottom of the cups. 4. Set up a station where materials will be kept in the classroom. PROCEDURE: Initiating Activity: (Linguistic/ Verbal) Have the students go to the story area. Once everyone is seated, read “A Green, Green Garden” to the class. Talk to the students about the vegetables in the book. Ask engaging questions about those vegetables and other foods they believe come from plants. Ask: “What did little critter and his family have to do for the seeds and seedlings? What...
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...“Going green” is a phrase that has been on the lips of many people for the past few years. To go green means you will act in a way to preserve the planet and its natural systems and resources (Wilkerson, 2009). In light of all the talks of going green many companies want to go green as well. Green jobs as explained in the Bureau of Labor Statistics website are jobs in businesses that produce goods or provide services that benefit the environment or conserve its natural resources. Jobs in which workers' duties involve making their establishment's production processes more environmentally friendly or use fewer natural resources (BLS, 2013). Automatically the thoughts of working on a farm or planting trees in some forest come to mind I am sure but those are not the only options. Major companies that are housed in large story buildings can be a green job as well. Companies that produce energy from renewable sources use energy efficient electronics in the work area, and any reduction in greenhouse gasses can all be considered green jobs (BLS, 2013). The company itself is not the only thing that has to be green but the employees need to be as well (at least when at work). The company needs to provide the employee with the proper knowledge of the environment and how the company itself is working towards helping the planet. Whatever it is that the company is doing like aiding in the conservation of energy or pollution reduction the employee must know how the company implements these...
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...Water” 1. Notes on paper C. How can you take action? D. Benefits on environment E. Consequences of ignoring global crisis involving natural, free resource (water) http://asumag.com/Washrooms/restroom-water-conservation-201003/ http://www.treehugger.com/htgg/how-to-go-green-water.html http://www.worldwatch.org/resources/go_green_save_green http://www.peachygreen.com/going-green/reduce-water-use-with-a-rainwater-collection-system http://www.everydayhealth.com/photogallery/save-water.aspx#/slide-1 http://www.americanrivers.org/newsroom/blog/going-green-for-clean-water-7-16-2010.html http://www.go-green.com/node/176 http://www.harvesth2o.com/leed.shtml http://go-greenpower.com/alternative-energy/solar-hot-water/ http://www.innovativeimprovements.org/water.htm http://www.sheknows.com/living/articles/807943/water-conservation-get-the-facts http://environment.about.com/od/biodiversityconservation/a/desalination.htm http://www.onlineclasses.org/2010/12/14/101-way-to-conserve-water-in-college/ http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2011/09/06/40-important-ways-that-colleges-are-conserving-water/ http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2008-08-25-trays_N.htm http://abcnews.go.com/WN/GlobalWarming/story?id=3351812&page=1 http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/omkara/2010/nov/8/going-green-part-1/ http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/omkara/2010/nov/15/going-green-part-2/ http://communities...
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...the public but from groups including World Wildlife Foundation and Greenpeace, to local organisations such as the Auckland Zoo which removed Cadbury Products from its shelves in protest meant that Cadburys was forced to revert back to an only Coco Butter recipe even though it claimed to only be using certified sustainable Palm Oil. This has become a perfect example of ‘green’ and ‘ethical’ issues coming to light and forcing a company as large and Cadbury to take a step back and reverse a decision due to customer pressure. As green issues are highlighted more and more in today’s world, how important is green and ethical marketing to a large multinational such as Cadbury and how much power does the public have to make them stop, or change their practices so that they align with opinion? Furthermore how far do these companies, specifically Cadbury actually go to implement green strategies, and what type of governance do they employ within the companies to make sure they stick to their targets? Body – The Importance of Green and Ethical Marketing and Public Persuasion It is clear in today’s modern world that green issues are in the forefront of people’s minds. We are bombarded with...
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...the main theme appears to be finding a way to live, without hurting the environment, but as the family’s adventure continues, this idea changes. They begin to question just what is the definition of a good life, and how much do we attach ourselves to other things just to live a simple and easy life. As the family moves farther and farther into their new way of life, they begin to understand just how different it is to live a no impact life. The family begins to learn slowly about living green and they disconnect themselves away from a carbon lifestyle, just one step at a time. Throughout the book, they take steps into turning green. Every chapter, the family has a new challenge to accomplish about the theme of becoming green. It is important to this class, just due to the pure fact of how much of a carbon lifestyle people do live today. Reading about how this family was able to turn their lives into a completely different lifestyle in a year was very interesting. The story is a perfect example of how people can change themselves and save this planet, which just happens to be a very important issue that exists today. I believe the theme of this book is very clear and shows a very accurate way of how people convert to a green lifestyle. The thing about going green is people...
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