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Fashion is always changing; month after month companies are coming up with new styles for the upcoming season. Particularly in stores like H&M, Zara, and Forever 21, they come up with fashion ideas and designs week after week. These stores are a part of big business, specifically when it comes to fast fashion. The phrase ‘fast fashion’ refers to designs rapidly move from the runway and into stores in order to have the current fashion trends. Although this seems like a fantastic notion for those…

Campaigns and hashtags featuring phrases such as “save the bees” and “bring back the bees” have been flooding social media and covering all types of products lately. Brands, such as Honey Nut Cheerios with their disappearing Buzz the bee mascot, have recently began encouraging citizens of the world to contribute to saving honeybees so they will not face extinction. However, are the companies misinforming society on the real status of the bees? On the Cheerios’ website, two specifically…

As mentioned earlier, the McDonalds business model has enabled the corporation to ultimately expand from a single, California location into some 30,000 worldwide locations. However, that is not to say that McDonald’s is free from challenges. Consumers are continuously becoming more health conscious, which frequently puts them at odds with McDonald’s menu items. This message is even driven home by media outlets and non-governmental organizations that have often likened McDonalds to a societal…

This type of community-based movement attracted NGOs, such as Greenpeace, as part of a larger international movement that celebrated indigenous ideology as it relates to the natural world. The protest movement began to expand from a locally organized tribal protest group to a much larger international protest movement…

Why Honey Bees Affect Agriculture You may see a bee buzzing by, landing on a flower and not even think of the huge effect they have on ‘the world’ around us. Today, I will be talking about how and why honey bees affect Agriculture. The first reason is that honey bees are a big part of pollination everywhere around the world. Providing pollen to farmers' crops and other wild plants. The second reason is that honey bees make honey. Providing food for us and other animals. For example Bears.…

For example, 31 different species of fish and a variety of animal habitats exist around the river. Because of water contamination, these species are now at risk (Greenpeace, 1). Normally, indigenous populations would use the animals as a natural food source. Instead, water contamination depletes the local ecosystem. As discussed in lecture, land and resources are more than just marketable commodities (Latulippe, 2015)…

Agriculture is the defining characteristics of human civilization. The development of agriculture, technically and technologically, has been a boon for humanity, allowing them to transition from nomadic survival to an urban existence. In the modern day, these advancements proliferate as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). These consist of any food genetically modified to resist or tolerate pesticides, insects, or viruses, or to decrease spoilage, produce antibodies, decrease fatty acid…

spreading toxins and harm. Humans are the main cause of litter and pollutants in the ocean. There are islands of garbage as big as Texas floating around they are known as the Pacific Trash Vortex. It is an alarming amount of trash. According to Greenpeace research there is an estimated at six kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton in the region. (The Trash Vortex) As a society we need to accept that this is a serious issue and make some needed lifestyle changes and in some cases sacrifices…

life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.” It is vital that everyone be informed about the problem with the bee population and the need to take action to save the bees. SOS-Bees is a denomination of Greenpeace which, according to their mission statement, is the “leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a…

Similar to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Cowspiracy discusses some of the major issues that are not noticed by the general public. By definition, Global Warming is the effect of too much greenhouse gasses inside the Earth’s atmosphere. It has been widely accepted that the causes of global warming include factories, chlorofluorocarbons, and other toxic chemicals from harmful human activities. According to the documentary Cowspiracy, the number one contributor to climate change is actually the…