...Costa Coffee, the UK’s largest and fastest growing coffee shop, plans to convert its entire coffee supply to sustainably grown beans sourced from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms by 2010. As a first step, from September 2008 at least 30% of Costa’s unique Mocha Italia blend, which forms the base of its coffee drinks, will come from Rainforest Alliance Certified sources, equal to about 1000 tonnes of green coffee over the course of a year. Only farms that meet specific standards balancing all aspects of production, including protecting the environment, the rights and welfare of workers and the interest of coffee-growing communities are awarded certification. The standards were developed by the Rainforest Alliance, an independent, international environment organisation, and other conservation groups that comprise the Sustainable Agriculture Network. And while UK consumers will be among the first to see the difference in store the change will have an international impact across Costa’s 1000 stores worldwide. Costa Coffee’s Marketing Director, David Hutchinson said: “Costa is at the beginning of a journey towards greater sustainability in its business. We know it will take time to convert our supply base to certified sustainable sources but we believe it’s an investment that is right for our business, right for the coffee industry as a whole and we believe it’s a journey our customers will want to be part of. “Costa’s success is built on a commitment to quality,...
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...Samir Lakhani Stephen Martinek Mahek Parikh Unilever Group Submission Unilever is a consumer goods company that has a variety of product types to serve consumers across the globe. For this case, Unilever’s tea brand, Lipton, is focused on sustainability for the production of their tea production. Sustainability is defined as a method of using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged. In other words, it is focusing on a production method that is sustainable long-term. Currently, Unilever has about 25% of their tea from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, which brought forward gains in the environmental, social, and economic sustainability of tea production. It was one of the few brands of tea that was able to have ethical practices while growing beyond a niche market into a larger market share. However, Unilever is looking to source 100% of its agricultural raw materials sustainably (Rainforest Alliance certified) by the year of 2020. This is a lofty and ambitious goal that requires a supply chain transformation, as nearly 8 million tons of commodities across 50 different crops are required for production. There are multiple reasons for this action: to have ethical production practices, to make their brand favorable to customers, and to increase the longevity of their farms. However, they will bear costs of having to increase the market price and convincing their suppliers to be certified. For example, the firm...
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...Why did Unilever commit to sustainable source for its tea? First of all, there is a companywide strategy to launch a new “Sustainable Living Plan”. This plan includes goals to source 100% of agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020. According to Unilever CEO Paul Polman, he believed that these goals would drive savings, product innovation and differentiation across the company’s portfolio. By committing to this plan, Unilever ensures to be more competitive in the future. If this transformation did not start, they would not be able to get the quality and quantity of the tea they need for their products. To adopt this plan Unilever faced two major issues. The first one was to start the transformation on the supply chain, due to the fact that the current supply chain does not yet comply with the “Sustainable Living Plan”. The alignment of the supply chain includes certification of tea production. In order to do that, Unilever worked with local NGOs and Kenyan Tea Development Agency (KTDA). Those parties ensure that the smallholders get educated and certified on sustainable agriculture. This approach makes sure that Unilever’s own production in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the small farmers in East Africa implement the new guidelines and recommendations and have been certified by the Rainforest Alliance. The second issue was how to address this internal commitment to consumers. The global brand director for Lipton Tea Michiel Leijnse, believed that Western consumers had become...
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...outlook on all perspectives of life. The war changed him as a person, and not for the good. In All Quiet On The Western Front, it tells the story of a young man, Paul Baumer, and his experiences of World War I. Paul fought voluntarily in the German army at the age of 19. His friend Kemmerich has his leg amputated and is slowly dying, so Paul takes his boot to Muller, as he requested. Paul’s crew gets involved in a gruesome battle with infantrymen. The battle was very terrifying, the men’s bodies were being blown apart and giant rats ate the remains of all the men. After the battle, Paul and...
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...Casa dei Bambini - the first Montessori Classroom - led her to discover the secrets of childhood. And the framework of Montessori Philosophy is based on three important discoveries; Tendencies, Absorbent Mind and Sensitive Periods. As Dr. Montessori said, the child has his own potential for life to develop. It is important for the adult to understand and allow the child build himself by his own experiences without the adult trying to fill their knowledge onto the child. Every child posses a pre-determined pattern of psychic unfold, which is not visible at birth but it is revealed when the child is exposed to the environment with freedom. When these two factors are provided, child’s psychic life will reach its potential and build his personality for his survival in the society. From birth and throughout the childhood, a child’s Absorbent Mind allows him to absorb impressions from his surrounding environment and directly store it into his psychic life. As an infant these impressions are absorbed unconsciously but gradually when the child has a conscious mind, he absorb impressions consciously and make language connections. There are blocks of time in early years of child’s life which he absorbs certain characteristics of his environment to the exclusion of all others. This is called Sensitive Periods. A child possess sensitive periods for order, to experience the world using his five senses, sensitivity for small minute objects, co-ordination of movements, for language...
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...the caterpillar turning into a butterfly, or evolution of entire species; a mental state, for instance a deeper comprehension of an emotion, or an education towards acceptance and understanding; or in a social environment, for example the abolishment of slavery and the non-discriminatory laws. Change is almost inevitable, fore it is the driving force of life. With out change life could not adapt to its surroundings and survive. If change were to stop, then life would become meaningless. The Earth would be the same if there was life with no change, than if there was no life at all. Generally when people ponder about the notion change, they think about a process where a thing transforms into a better version of itself. While change is usually associated with evolution, it can sometimes be the complete opposite. Change can happen for the worse, though it is seldom seen. With life comes change, and though in The Chrysalids some change is not for the better, character, environment and the community all slowly develop into something else. David changes a lot throughout the novel The Chrysalids. Many things in his life have shaped him, but the most significant is Sophie and the many promises he made as a young boy. The caterpillar stage for David is when he was a young boy. He goes into his chrysalis when he meets Sophie since that is the day his mind begins...
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...·Both stories contain a very intelligent creator who seems unaware of the forces that they are dealing with -They are both fascinated with human life and wish to create it themselves. Victor Frankenstein states, "One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life. Whence, I often asked myself did the principle of life proceed?" -Both creators share a fascination with where life proceeds from. Is it merely intellect? Or, as in the case of Blade Runner, are emotions the defining element of human life -Both creators are expressly interested in creating a life form equal to human and Tyrell even wishes to create a life form superior to man ·Both stories share a central theme, that the acquirement of too much knowledge is dangerous -Throughout Frankenstein, the reader is left with the feeling that Victor's obsessive desire to defeat nature, through the creation of another life, directly led to the many tragedies that befell him, "Learn from me, if not by my precept, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow" -In Blade Runner, the Replicants have been granted an intellect superior to their human counterparts. Are the Replicants revered or given special treatment because of this? No, in fact, they are treated...
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...rightful societal beliefs. This resulted to hatred from the people. According to him, a useless life is one that is not examined. He put a lot of emphasis on the obedience of the state likening it to the obedience a son would have for his father. He was common for taking children through lectures of coming up with arguments to justify the reason for beating his father. Socrates was later accused of corrupting youth groups and godlessness. He was then convicted to death by taking poison which he obeyed as a way of following his teaching on obedience to the law. If Confucius would have believed in a life after death, he would probably have agreed with Socrates to have the law obeyed and kill himself. Socrates, in his day of execution explains that soul is the main form of an individual. Soul does not die and is eternal and does not change. Just the same way it brings life, so must it not die despite the death of the body. Soul is therefore termed as immortal. He feels that dying does not destroy who he really is since in real sense, he will not be dead. Confucius, in his discussion with his disciples clearly does not exhibit any knowledge on this after-life and chooses to ignore it by saying that a man can just have knowledge about the dead after he has had absolute knowledge and understanding about the living. “Until a man knows about the living, how he can know the dead?” (Waley 2010, pg 32) this clearly shows that Confucius has his own...
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...Brooke Allen Professor Rita Wisdom English 1302.20055 17 October 2013 Broken Heart, “The Story of an Hour.” A beautiful, young, fair skinned woman died of heart disease. How could someone so young and potentially full of life have a heart disease that would kill? The question is though, what kind of heart disease did she die from, physical or emotional? Louise died from an emotional heart disease, in other words a broken heart. Some would say Mrs. Louise Mallard from “The Story of an Hour” was relieved when she heard her husband had been killed in a tragic accident and she died when she saw her husband clearly alive walk in the front door, her heart shattered at the realization she would no longer be free. Louise was relieved when she heard the new that her husband had died because she had always felt trapped. Back in this day and age, making marriage meant for some women a form of slavery. “When she hears the news of her husband’s death, Mrs. Mallard’s obliviousness to the beauty of life breaks down under the powerful impact of emotion.”(Jamil.pg215) Before this moment she didn’t even think there was a reason to live anymore. But now as she sits in the bathroom daydreaming out the window she can see all the possibilities. In an article by Jennifer Hicks called “An overview of “The Story an Hour”” it makes a very good point that “Mrs. Mallard is not “paralyzed” by the significance that she is alone.”(Hicks) Which also shows that she was not in shock like some readers...
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...A prominent part of Wes Moore (the author) is his family. They influence him into the decisions he makes in his life. Unlike school or friends, he lives with his family, and they are the ones who have been there for him since the beginning. This greatly impacts the amount of influence that family places on his life. His mother is very caring and strict. She has always been there for Wes, even when the family or his life may feel like it is falling apart. When Moore’s father suddenly and unexpectedly passes away, “The clatter momentarily stole my attention from my father. My mother heard his collapse and, in her rush to see what had happened, dropped the sizzling cast-iron skillet and potato pancakes on the floor.” (pg.13). This quote shows...
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...How much would you give to go back to when you were young and naïve? Humans have an instinctual desire to want to know the truth about all that affects them in life, especially if other people resist sharing such information. As people grow their understanding of truth also grows with them, for they learn that discovering some truths will cause them more harm then it will good. In Sophocles Oedipus Rex readers are able to watch the main character Oedipus go through this process which can take people years of their lives happen in a span of a few short days. In this process, people discover that it is not necessarily beneficial to know every truth and that it is ok to stay blind to some issues. As people go through the aging process they are...
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...to witness the passing of June Kashpaw without blatantly stating her death. The author wrote, “The snow fell deeper that Easter then it had in forty years, but June walked over it like water and came home” ( Pg. 7). Even though the author did not directly mention the death of June, her word choice indicated June’s passing. It seems that Erdrich intended to arouse a spiritual aspect of death. Presumably, home to June might not have been located on the physical plain. Her home possibly lied beyond flesh and blood; it was only her soul that could travel the distance. Erdrich also described the exact moment of June’s passing with such spiritual intentions. She stated, “Even her heart clenched and her skin turned crackling cold it didn’t matter, because the pure and naked part of her went on” (Pg. 7). Erdrich brought forth the fact that June had had enough of her material body and she was ready for her soul to move on. Ultimately, the crackling cold that enveloped her skin and heart represented the shedding of her body until only her soul remained. The soul is thought to be the only thing that continues to travel long after its vessel has passed, but the body remains to tell wordless...
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...Bless Me Ultima In-class Essay Rewrite Not everyone gets to decide the life of the people around them; however everyone decides the path they get to create in their own life. As a child Antonio was taught that god punished the evil and rewarded the good. HIs teachings became doubtful when Florence told him, “How could god let this happen to a kid? I never asked to be born. But he gives me birth, a soul and puts me here to punish me.” (pg 196) This helps Antonio reflect on some questions he wanted answered such as, “Why was the murder of Narciso allowed? Why was evil allowed?”(pg 196). This is essential to the plot because it demonstrates how Antonio is beginning to doubt if God is real and if he wants to follow in the footsteps of a priest....
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...crossroads in life that we come to that we have to make choices that will change our life forever. There are things in your that you must sacrifice in life to fight for a better life. The choices made by Annie and the KIPP Academy kids are both similar and differ in their own way so they can change their lives into something they can be proud of. Annie John has had a great live there really is nothing wrong with the live that she could have lived, but she does not see it that way she wants to get out from her parents and live a life with success and failure her own way. “I did not want to go to England; I did not want to be a nurse.”(Kincaid, Pg.31) She really has no idea what she wants to be she just found a way out and is sacrifices her comfy life so a life where there could be even more heartbreak and failure, but know she will not have her family nearby. The kids at KIPP Academy come from homes that are not that good and might be difficult to have a successful life. The kids that come to this school by lottery are making choices that will change the path for them forever bringing light into their life. The kids that have come to this school have gone and graduated from some great colleges and have supported their family. “I have to wake up a five-forty-five am to get a head...
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... 3 Summary 3 The Most Favorite Part 4 5 Sentences/Phrases 4 The Things Learned from the Book 5 Recommendation 5 Sypnosis This story is a fantasy about a family named Tuck who accidentally stumble upon a spring in a wood, which has the ability to give eternal life. They don’t realize at first what they have drunk until they realize that their bodies are not aging and they cannot be hurt or harmed in any way. They travel quietly around the countryside; never staying in one place too long so that people will not realize their secret. Into this family comes Winnie Foster, a little girl in search of freedom. She learns their secret and falls in love with them so deeply that she will do anything to protect them. The family and Winnie then must face a villain who would steal their secret for himself. Summary A ten year old Winnie comes from a well-bred and strait-laced family who keep her safe behind a four-foot iron fence that surrounds their home. She lives a life of boredom and frustration. They are the oldest family in the town, and own the surrounding woods. When running away from her confinement and into the woods one morning, she finds a beautiful tree from which a spring of water pours, with a teenage boy - almost a young man - drinking from it. This discovery leads her to learn of the Tuck family - the boy named Jesse Tuck and the rest of...
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