“The Myth of the Happy Yeoman lives on in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse” Discourses‚ using spoken or written language in a social context‚ are more than narratives of human existence. A contemporary feminist author and professor‚ Chris Weedon‚ paraphrases French philosopher‚ Michel Foucault in the following passage: (discourses are) “ways of constituting knowledge‚ together with the social practices‚ forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations
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Business Heritage‚ Culture and Sustainability Business Heritage‚ Culture and Sustainability (a) A bottle of milk purchased in Christchurch is very like to be produced in the South island‚ either in Canterbury or Southland‚ which are the main dairying areas. The production process for milk: From the farm: milk is produced from grass‚ dairy cow’s graze on the grass and then they are milked twice a day using mechanical vacuum milking machines. The raw milk flows through stainless
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Sports maunfacutring industry | Environmental‚ Sustainability and Social Responsibility | Adidas versus Nike | | | 12/8/2011 | | Group #1 Adidas vs. Nike 12/08/2011 Environmental‚ sustainability and social responsibility reports are always created for vast amounts of companies around the world. Adidas and Nike are huge competitors in the sports manufacturing industry. Adidas is the second largest manufacturer of sporting equipment and clothing in the world behind the
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feed animals. What people don’t realise while they’re cutting down forests is they’re creating species extinction‚ habitat loss‚ topsoil erosion‚ ocean “dead zones‚” and virtually every other environmental ill. The documentary Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret opens with a tsunami of information along with pathos. director and filmmaker Kip Andersen makes a courageous and largely successful attempt to interview many environmentalists about animal agriculture and why it is cooking the earth. Andersen
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Vail Resorts Sustainability Analysis [pic] Business 4630: Creating Sustainable Enterprises May XX‚ 2009 BY: Contents Introduction 1 Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development 1 Opportunity and Risk 2 Measureing Value 2 Strategy and Execution 2 Measuring Results 2 Conclusion 2 Introduction This paper aims to evaluate the sustainability of Vail Resorts™ (Vail) and its role as a socially responsible corporation. The paper will … Social Responsibility
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more sustainable textile production chain. In their Sustainability Report (2016) they explain that they are taking a circular approach to how fashion is made and used. This includes a more effective use of resources‚ support of innovation within recycling technologies‚ but also an increased use of existing or new sustainable materials. They claim that improving sustainability issues is vital for future business success. Since their first sustainability strategy in 2009‚ the company has been trying to
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524 Sustainability: Consumer Perceptions and Marketing Strategies Seonaidh McDonald1* and Caroline J. Oates2 1 Aberdeen Business School‚ The Robert Gordon University‚ UK 2 Management School‚ University of Sheffield‚ UK ABSTRACT Studies of green consumer behaviour‚ in particular purchasing and disposal‚ have largely focused on demographics and/or socio-demographics‚ with mixed and frequently contradictory results. To move the debate forward‚ we investigated a wide range of 40 sustainability activities
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Sustainability of remote areas EIT – Energy challenge for sustainable future Group 5 About Our project is about providing electricity and other basic needs to remote area of our chose and make that area sustainable. We are choosing an area that is in worst position and needs help but also has a potential to produce needed energy from renewable sources. We choose Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) Because… Their share of population without electricity is > 75%. Talking numbers that
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SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE SUMMARY NIKE‚ INC. FY10/11 Note: The information in this report and NIKE‚ Inc.’s corporate responsibility/sustainability reporting and website‚ inclusive of charts‚ graphs and discussion‚ and all other information presented‚ may contain forward-looking statements‚ estimates or projections based on expectations as of the original date of those materials. Those statements‚ estimates and projections are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause
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Sustainability for our Civilization Sustainability is a major conflict our civilization has run in too. If humanity wants to perish we should continue what we are doing ‚but I doubt people want to lose this civilization. We have to factor in what we need to do in order to get over this wall we have run into. The greatest threats to sustainability is oil and deforestation because if these problems were fixed it would fix other threats facing us right now. These can be the biggest threat we have
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