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    Case Study: New Belgium

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    environment through their production procedures of goods and services helping preserve our natural resources. The company emphasizes on eco-friendly practices and in 1998 New Belgium made a goal to offset 100% of its electricity through the city’s wind-power program. The company has chosen to pay a 50% premium for its electrical energy, which saves 8,000,000 lbs of CO2 being released into the environment per…

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    thrown out and a new, influential democracy returns the new form of government, building a new city. Today our engineers have come together who have developed a new city concept that fits all of your benefits and needs. Considerable infrastructures, wind energy and solar energy are the base of our city. We want to maintain a pollution free environment with these infrastructures. Although, pollution is not our only focus. Education is another main focus. We believe that a successful city begins…

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    problems can be the use of wind turbines which takes wind and turn it into mechanical power. “When fully built, the wind energy area could generate enough energy to power about 300,000 homes” (Leahy 5) even though it could be a good thing to have wind turbines as it will create jobs, but farmers would not like the idea of noise and killing birds, but by looking at the statistics of how bad environmental problem has risen could make the farmers and others realize that having the wind turbines…

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    the earth we live on. Since fossil fuels are nonrenewable, that means they will run out eventually because it takes tens of thousands of years for them to form. Other sources of energy include, but are not limited to, nuclear energy, solar energy, wind energy, and hydroelectric energy. Nuclear energy is very efficient but there are major liabilities…

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    able to live. Our main source of energy is indeed fossil fuels but slowly they are becoming more and more limited. With fossil fuels once they are gone and used, they are gone forever. We burn these fossil fuels to receive fuel for planes, cars and powers electricity plants supporting large industries. Fossil fuel comes from decayed plants and animals. Although there are many alternatives to using energy from decayed plants that are much more sustainable. For example ethanol. Ethanol is an good…

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    fossil fuels and replace it with natural resources such as the sun, wind, geothermal energy and water. Governments globally, are in need to implement the Renewable Energy Targets to ensure that society can adapt and climate change and our diverse environment will be benefited greatly (Environment.gov.au, 2015). Governments in most countries around the world umbrella the economy, the environment and society, as they have the power to make decisions. The standards and policies differ from…

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    generators move. Generators are machines that produce electricity. Hydroelectricity relies on water, which is a clean, renewable energy source. A renewable source of energy is one that will not run out. Renewable energy comes from natural sources, like wind, sunlight, rain, tides, and geothermal energy (the heat produced inside the Earth).Non-renewable energy sources include coal, oil, and natural gas. Water is renewable because the water cycle is continually…

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    Renewable Energy vs Non-Renewable Energy Search release for U.S. Dept. of Energy the U.S.A. consumed more than 25,000 TWh of energy in the year of 2011,but from this amount just 11.7% was provide from renewable energy. As reported by Klare (2012), energy sources caused and cause many conflicts around the world. It causes the conflicts between Sudan and South Sudan, when Sudan tried to occupy the oil center of Heglig. It was the reason for a naval clash between China and Philippine, for an island…

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    Whole Foods Case Study

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    Employee-related activities As we can see, the company has implemented many activities and programs to save more energy and reduce waste, which could harm the environment and creating more pollution. In order to be successful, employees need to participate and cooperate with the company. According to Porter and Kramer (2006), every strategy that the company uses could impact the society more or less. We can analyze by consider in the value chain. 3Rs policy is related to…

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    rechargeable battery packs. They have several advantages over vehicles with internal combustion engines. Electric vehicles convert about 59%-62% of the electrical energy to power at the wheels. Although the power plants producing the electricity may emit tailpipe pollutants, they do not emit them. Electricity from nuclear, solar, or wind powered plants causes no air pollutants. Therefore, they can be…

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