ISS 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wangari Maathai, David Suzuki, Zip-Line
1 Jun 2016
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Environmental sustainability: how many more planet earths do we need to sustain all current humans at the. Under the dome a: how do we save the world and ourselves, corporations/businesses a. i. Be wary off greenwashing which is when a company or a. ii. organization spends more time and money claiming to be green through advertising and marketing than actually implementing business practices that minimize environmental impact. If governments are hesitating, many of the globe"s big companies missed the memo. Top-ranked companies are approaching green projects with increasing tenacity, even in this weak economy. Corporate-environmental sustainability makes sense not just for the sake of the planet, but for business a. iii. 25% of western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest plants: ecotourism b. i. Elephants are worth 76x more alive than dead b. ii. Wildlife worth more alive than dead (worth more in a national park than being shot and having their tusks sold) b. iii.
