Decadent movement

Ikea’s approach to sustainability In recent years Ikea has been working on introducing many initiatives that would make their company more sustainable. Already from a customer perspective one could notice that Ikea is going green - we started noticing more environmentally friendly materials, Ikea was encouraging recycling, promoting their initiatives to make their suppliers more environmentally friendly and raising wind turbines by their stores. Even from that limited perspective like a company…

begins to see herself as part of the landscape Nature and civilization, women and men are not absolutely opposite. The narrator puts herself in the entire natural world. From the past thirty years, ecofeminism literature has been combining the environmentalist focus on reconnection of nature with the feminist focus on gender equality. The combination produces a feminist view on environmentalism that is concerned with the degradation of both earth and its people. Ecofeminism foregoes a…

As he discusses in his book Ecological Design, Sim Van Der Ryn makes a very important statement: “In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis” (Van Der Ryn 1996:24). That is, it is a matter of how things are made and how the environment is used. For many, “green” is merely something that combines or replaces everyday products with recycled ones, or perhaps has a few good ideas about raising awareness for environmental issues. However, this is not enough. The word “sustainable” in…

1. US cultural clash 1920 One of the cultural clashes during this period was on prohibition, where there was an effort to ban the consumption of alcohol. A constitutional amendment was passed that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This caused a major clash between those who favored the move and those who wanted it repealed. Protestant religious groups and other fundamentalists highly favored the move as they saw alcohol as a contributor to social evil.…

Green consumerism is a phenomenon whereby consumers are increasingly paying more attention to the ethics of businesses with relation to environmental issues. This includes eco-friendly packaging, energy-saving technology, carbon footprints of products and other environmentally friendly means. However, the concept of “green washing” surfaces when businesses deliberately brand themselves as pro-environment through advertising when in reality, environmental issues are compromised. Therefore, a…

1968: Music As Rhetoric In Social Movements In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any…

Protest. This simple word brings to mind images of violent revolution, interactions between civilians and officers of the law. Perhaps, specifically the Boston Tea Party, The Occupy Wall Street Movement, or The Salt March. Famous names also come to mind, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks, all were known for their use of civil disobedience. However, one name is not oft remembered but deserves to be, as he coined the term ‘civil disobedience,’ Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau…

Why BioGreen? Most of the companies now a days are looking for ways to become environmental-friendly to improve its bottom line. BioGreen understands the need of maintaining the natural ecological balance in the environment and so, we came up with the biodegradable products. In order to eliminate the mess, our biggest challenge and responsibility was to develop green products, services and processes that will provide better quality air, a cleaner environment, and a better health. Biodegradable…

The article Green Human Resource Management: Policies and Practices by Ahmad Shoeb deals with the trend that has currently won on importance in the field of business and politics as well as in the public sphere. This trend is the growing concern with the increased interest in the environmental issues. This has become an immense concern for the organizations since the success of the company is nowadays determined not only by the financial and economic factors but also by the social and…

Peers. Miller (2000) stated that, “collective behavior is a term sociologists use to refer to a miscellaneous set of behaviors in which large numbers of people engage.” Collective behavior refers to relatively spontaneous and relatively unstructured behavior by large numbers of individuals acting with or being influenced by other individuals. Relatively spontaneous is defined as, “somewhat spontaneous but also somewhat planned” (Giddings 1908), while relatively unstructured means that the…