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…
I believe everyone has an ability to create a positive change in community. As Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of United Nations said, “Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation”, strengthen my desire that I am an agent of change to make this world a better place. The little change I always want to install is creating sustainability and better livelihood as a solution because humanity is placing inordinate demands on nature and our environment condition is…
Presence of carnivores helps to maintain the integrity of ecosystems throughout the world (Soulè and Terborgh, 1999). Many carnivores are capable of altering trophic structure and biodiversity through a process known as top-down control (Elmhagen and Rushton, 2007). Through this, carnivores are able to prevent the overabundance of herbivores. If uncontrolled, an explosion in herbivore population density would increase the grazing pressure that would ultimately threat the survival of the…
Niche that the organism fills The ecological niche or niche of an organism is the place and role in nature. This encompasses what it does, who it feeds, what it feed on as well as what it pollinates. Considering the role that the Brenton Blue butterfly fills, we find that like other butterflies, it serves as a pollinator. In this case, the Brenton Blue is a pollinator for its food plant, Indigo (scientific name Indigofera erecta). When the butterfly lands on the plant to feast on the nectar…
His book ‘’ Ecology without Nature’’ is very interesting and enjoyable because, in it , he used occasionally irreverent style and embrace of kitsch which lends charm to his book but there is also technical terminology which is not easy to understand as a result of its slow down the readers . However, this slowing down is not accidental, rather it is exactly what Morton recommends for Ecocritics . In his book, Timothy Morton follows the dark ecology which is ‘’ We are in the…
Question 2: In the paper titled “What Hunters do for a living?” in the Case Studies folder on the moodle for the course, how does the author establish that the lives of the Bushmen that he studies are not “nasty, short and brutish?” What does this say in general about hunter-gatherer societies and their quality of their existence? Do you think that the quality of life as described in the paper qualifies or does not qualify as well-being in the modern sense? Briefly justify your answer.…
2.0 SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAIN Sustainable Supply Chain can be define as management of supply chain need to be consider of environmental issues, social, as well as economic impacts. ( Cody Sisco, Blythe Chorn and Peder Michael Pruzan-Jorgensen, 2010). Based on this authors also explained about the encouragement of good governance practices in term of goods and services in the sustainable supply chain. Sustainable supply chain is very crucial point need to be consider in the supply chain management…
Nowadays, environmental problems have become the number one issue for us, such as Climate change, global warming or invasive species, whether it is small or significant, they all affect our day to day life in some extent. As the individual, we must take care our mother earth, we don’t need to establish extensive programs or invest lots of money to protect the environments, but we can do small things in our daily life, such as planting trees, etc. Protecting the environment is our responsibility.…
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…