Sustainability: Eco-Philosophy Abstract Sustainability is a concept to maintain or sustain something of good qualities or something from deteriorating. It is like creating a balance between human’s activity and nature. This concept is emerged to rectify the developing scientific agreement that there are major environmental problems occurring globally in big scale gradually along the years[1]. I agree on this strongly as I have read through a lot on the news article on the BBC website
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member: Yanyan Fan :16431392 Yang Zhang :16548131 To: financial director From: Yanyan Fan & Yang Zhang Subject: Sustainability disclosure of the company Dear Sir: I am glad to write this report for you to use as ground to decide Orica’s future practices in disclosing sustainability information relates to our company’s operation. As the world’s largest provider of commercial explosives‚ blasting systems and blast based services‚ we care about
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As society continues to progress‚ how sustainable we are is paramount. Sustainability is not over-exhausting available resources and maintaining a balance between them. The environment we live in is highly connected to sustainability. Climate change and other environmental factors can affect our sustainability in many ways. Rising temperatures lead to numerous climate-related effects‚ such as more frequent and intense heat waves‚ droughts‚ extreme weather events‚ changing weather patterns‚ and melting
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Air Quality One of the different features of the natural environment to consider when planning a construction project is air quality. Good air quality is an essential part of a healthy environment‚ large factories tend to be located away from populated areas to prevent air pollution and large chimneys guide the pollution further up into the atmosphere to avoid any fallout to local inhabitants. However events in history such as the ‘Great Smog of 1952’ made such an impact that the government at the
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Systems‚ Society and Sustainability The global challenge of sustainable development requires solutions and mindsets that bridge traditional divisions between nature and culture‚ and the technical and social sciences. Sustainable development requires that engineers and other professionals are able to include social and ecological considerations alongside technical and economic requirements in managing projects and infrastructure. This course outlines the challenges of sustainability‚ introduces some
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are the skills of an effective Chief Sustainability Officer? According to AccountAbility.org‚ Chief Sustainability Officers should be business leader‚ relationship manager and sustainability expert in order to effectively run an institution. “The ideal Chief Sustainability Officers should be an experienced executive with established business experience and an excellent track record of working with people at all levels of the organization. A Chief Sustainability Officer with proven business acumen
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Never before has sustainability been more important on the corporate agenda. According to Brundtland Commission of the United Nations (1987) sustainability is defined as operating in a way that preserves the long-term quality and productive capacity of both the natural and social environments in which a company operates. For humans‚ sustainability is defined as the potential for long-term maintenance of well being‚ which has environmental‚ economic‚ and social dimensions. Sustainability therefore involves:
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Supply chain sustainability is the management of the environmental‚ social‚ and economic impacts‚ and the encouragement of good governance practices‚ throughout the the lifecycle of goods and services. In layman’s terms‚ supply chain sustainability is what companies use in order to have a positive impact on the world by the use of good business practices. Businesses must understand that they are part of a large system and that they need to do their part to minimize cost (ie. natural resources)
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of Management Student Name: Abcdefgh Student ID:123456 5/15/2013 Assignment topic: What is sustainability and why does it matter? Why are some benefits for organizations in adopting sustainable practices? Can you also suggest some negative impacts‚ if any‚ of adopting sustainable business systems? Introduction It was not before the year 2007‚ the concept of ‘Sustainability’ was established in the mind of people and businesses in the world. In the year 2009‚ the UN Climate Change
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Investigating (criterion a) The Goal and Global Context The global context‚ Globalisation and Sustainability was chosen because it rightly encompasses my passion to improve things. Since childhood‚ I was ‚and still am‚ greatly interested in systems that operate somewhat interdependently. After moving to Switzerland did I realise the efficiency of the Swiss system and the benefits of this brings to the Swiss society. I then began to contemplate whether this interconnected system is based on the
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