Making sustainability profitable There is a clear aim of this article ‚which is showing to the readers that if we increase sustainability of a company‚ no matter if it is or without the intention of contributing to a better environment‚ could be somehow combined with increasing the bottom line of a company. In the article there were given six examples of companies that contributed to the environment while increasing their finances. The authors mainly focused on the fact that when increasing sustainability
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Elvis Presley was born in a poor family in a small 2 bedroom house in Tupelo Minnesota. Elvis was influenced by gospel‚ and country music. 1953 Elvis paid four dollars to record a two song demo and moved to Memphis tennessee. When Elvis was at young age people noticed he had an astonishing voice. At age 10 he sang in public for the first time. Elvis also loved to play guitar‚ he never got guitar lessons because he learned by watching the other musicians play. After Elvis recorded his two song demo
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to proceed slowly with our trenches” (Peter Stuyvesant). Trench warfare was a tactic that got nowhere while fighting. Then they started using nuclear gases that killed a lot of people. Trench warfare was an interesting thing‚ he technology changed how well it worked‚ and he attitude of leaders changed trench warfare as well. Trench warfare made the war one of the slowest in history. People got almost nowhere from it. Trench warfare is the idea where you dig a trench and many people go in them. Then
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moon and compass based on the position of Earth. These have helped people survive for hundreds of years and our still used. Another thing he discovered was the positions of Jupiter’s satellites. Galileo was someone who made huge discoveries about the world‚ and without that‚ life would be so much different.
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God” he left a change in the world. Everyone who lived in Mecca had one belief system that they followed‚ believing in a messenger from God. That messenger from God’s name was Muhammad. Muhammad was born in 570 in Mecca. His parents both died when he was very young. He was raised by his grandfather then by an uncle. Sometime after he was married‚ he began receiving messages from God. After he started telling people about them‚ they were put together verse by verse to become Islam’s bible. Muhammad began
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Approximately 11 million people died while Hitler was in power‚ although his legacy lives on. Adolf Hitler overcame adversity in his early life with school and his family‚ and later on made a huge impact in the world. Born in Austria‚ at a young age Hitler showed astonishing intellectual potential and had many friends. Later on when competition in school became tough he then gave up because he was not exceling. After being unsuccessful in school Hitler decided to move on with his life and pursue
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to signing up for becoming a member to the European Union was made on 14 April 1987. Turkey has been an associate member of the European Union (then European Community) since 1963 with the Ankara Agreement. Turkey was one of the first countries to become a member of the Council of Europe in 1949. Therefore it is important to examine the important political and economic milestones of Turkey’s candidacy path to see what achievements it earned and what obstacles it has faced. This review and analysis
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in the historical records of that time period‚ yet the religion of Christianity that was created by his teachings‚ had a dramatic impact on world history. Following Jesus’ death‚ Christianity was transformed from a small Jewish sect to a world religion. The transformation started with Saint Paul‚ an early convert whose journeys led to the creation of small Christian communities that included non-Jews. Paul wrote a letter to one of the communities stating that‚ “There is neither Jew nor Greek .
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Historical globalization was influenced by exploration when the world began getting ‘smaller’ as a result of colony building. The transfer and exchange of distinct of goods‚ ideas‚ sciences‚ medicine‚ literature‚ theories‚ and technology dramatically changed the world. Nationalism‚ economic competition‚ missionary spirit‚ and exploration led to imperialism; the policy of extending control and domination over another countries economic and cultural institutions during 1850-1914. The demand for raw
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moves towards Green Energy. Meanwhile from retailers sector Wal-Mart‚ IKEA‚ Tesco & Nestle have also taken the same step. The examples brought out in the article have clearly illustrates how going green can benefit not only the world as a whole‚ but also the companies taking part in the initiatives. Figure 1 illustrates sustainable goals of consumer goods companies and retailers. With the right strategy‚ a company could save up energy consumption and in the end reduce production cost and
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