Weather and Business Sustainability Course
How Business Sustainability changed me:
Taking Business Sustainability course has changed me on a personal level. I’ve never had a deep connection with nature. As a kid I have spent many family vacations in the middle of a forest because of my father’s fascination with his job (He is a retired forest engineer/carried out forestry research). To be honest, I never really understood his relationship with trees and nature. Now I value nature more. I appreciate environment more. I acknowledge that it is one of the most valuable things that has been given to us for free. Part of this realization might come from that now I know how serious environmental issues are, now I understand the complexity and globality of issues such as climate change. I believe this realization didn’t occur to me sooner partly because the media has been downplaying it.
I believe as an individual I can embrace sustainability in a few ways:
1. Ethical and Sustainable consumerism: As the buyer of a product or a consumer of energy resources, I am partly responsible for how that product was made and how I consume energy. “Partly”, because I have limited power when it comes to the range of products that I can choose from and the price range that I can afford. On the other hand, entrepreneurs can actively control these two factors. The wealthier class of society has greater responsibility as they consume 80% of natural resources. I do believe that tax rates should be higher for them and the resulted revenue should be invested in environmental-related activities and educational projects.
As an individual I can take simple steps in my everyday life that promotes sustainability, such as not using the dryer when it’s sunny outside and taking my plastic bags with me when I go shopping (I can’t expressed how disturbed I am by excessive use of plastic bags in supermarkets).
2. By trying to promote sustainability conversations as a form of informal education. This can be an effective way to raise
Taking Business Sustainability course has changed me on a personal level. I’ve never had a deep connection with nature. As a kid I have spent many family vacations in the middle of a forest because of my father’s fascination with his job (He is a retired forest engineer/carried out forestry research). To be honest, I never really understood his relationship with trees and nature. Now I value nature more. I appreciate environment more. I acknowledge that it is one of the most valuable things that has been given to us for free. Part of this realization might come from that now I know how serious environmental issues are, now I understand the complexity and globality of issues such as climate change. I believe this realization didn’t occur to me sooner partly because the media has been downplaying it.
I believe as an individual I can embrace sustainability in a few ways:
1. Ethical and Sustainable consumerism: As the buyer of a product or a consumer of energy resources, I am partly responsible for how that product was made and how I consume energy. “Partly”, because I have limited power when it comes to the range of products that I can choose from and the price range that I can afford. On the other hand, entrepreneurs can actively control these two factors. The wealthier class of society has greater responsibility as they consume 80% of natural resources. I do believe that tax rates should be higher for them and the resulted revenue should be invested in environmental-related activities and educational projects.
As an individual I can take simple steps in my everyday life that promotes sustainability, such as not using the dryer when it’s sunny outside and taking my plastic bags with me when I go shopping (I can’t expressed how disturbed I am by excessive use of plastic bags in supermarkets).
2. By trying to promote sustainability conversations as a form of informal education. This can be an effective way to raise