Sustainability

Dietz, Thomas, and Richard York. "Animals, Capital and Sustainability." Human Ecology Review, vol. 22, no. 1, 2016, pp. 35. The aim of this article is to recognize that humans use animals as goods to increase their well-being, which has a negative impact on the environment. The impact on the environment can leave the land unsustainable, which impacts humanity’s well-being as well as the animals. Humans use livestock and other animals with to their own advantage with the aim of increasing their…

1.Introduction 1.1 What is sustainability and sustainable construction? Sustainability is living with our means, learning to live comfortably within the earth's natural environmental limits without having to sacrifice our wealth and happiness. Also it can define as the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Population growth and/or growth in the rates of consumption of resources cannot be sustained. Because of…

the last time people talked about the environment? Since the beginning of time, many people have not expressed much interest in the environment and how sustainable it actually is. The current attitudes about climate change, environmentalism, and sustainability is that many people are not informed or ignore what is truly going on in our environment. In other cultures, the government does not keep this information from the people and sets laws to help make the environment sustainable. I believe we…

In most readings, facts and recommendations are given by the writers, to convince the readers to contribute in making a change. In the book, “Sustainability” by Carl G. Herndl, there are different readings by different writers, and these writers all give facts and recommendations on how to help solve the problems of wastes around us. In these reading, facts are given on where trash and the recycles of people really end up and how it is harmful to humans around them. Suggestion are given on how…

way to create sustainability. Therefore the understanding of sustainable development should be spread to business owner to changing their thought on environment. II. Discussion 2.1 Natural Capital It is crucial to understand the composition…

most about was Solow 's position on environmental sustainability. It gave me a different perspective to think about mainly how hard it is to plan so far into the future when concerning environmental sustainability, what…

The primary focus of a business is to generate profits as quoted by Friedman “the role of a business is to make profits” (Friedman, 1970, pg. 1). Every business strives to be the best and achieve global sustainability which Bio-Plastics Inc. (Kilkolly-Proffit, 2015) have achieved and are currently in the situation where changes in the business due to the market could result in consequences. In this essay, I will state the theories that influenced Marry-Anne’s, the CEO of Bio-Plastics Inc.…

In the article “Sustainability outside the box” the author Hallie Forcinio describes an industrial manufacturing transformation occurring within the biotechnology and consumer packaged goods industries. These industries have stepped up corporate sustainability efforts through the use of improved technological processes and methods of manufacturing. Corporations within these industries are reducing their carbon footprints with smarter packaging designs and development, reducing greenhouse gas…

Sustainability or sustainable, are words heard almost every day. While taking the course, Sustainability 1000, I continued to believe that the term sustainability means a variety of things to numerous people. I have learned, that it is in defining sustainability as a society and having a unanimous understanding of the meaning, that we will be able to change how people see the world. This lecture series reinforced my belief that sustainability is the connections from past and present to future…

Arias-Maldonado, Manuel. "Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene." Environmental Politics 22.3 (2013): 428-46. (Gabriella Monagan) In the article “Rethinking Sustainability in the Anthropocene,” political theorist Manuel Arias-Maldonado reframes the concept of sustainability and its socio-natural relationship to define a new form of environmentalism in the Anthropocene epoch. The rise of climate change has exposed the flaws with the current view of sustainability, which is defined as…