environmental issues, promoting many CSR activities such as GoGreen, which aims at reducing CO2 emissions until 2020. TNT also participates in environmental CSR activities by ways such as being an associate member of the World Food Plan (WFP). UPS is a competitor of FedEx in the environment CSR sector as well. There has been a comparison between UPS and FedEx by a power blogger called Marc Gunthe
(1) What is material?
Certain provisions of the SEC apply only to matters that are “material” to the financial condition of the company. Therefore, interpretation and application of those provisions relates to the issue of “what is material”.
Item 101 of Regulation S-K requires that companies must disclose material effects that compliance with environmental law will have on earnings, c
real economic impact the organization has on its economic environment. This is often confused to be limited to the internal profit made by a company or organization.
Therefore, an original TBL approach cannot be interpreted
as simply traditional corporate accounting profit plus social and environmental impacts unless the "profits" of other entities are included as a social benefit.
Research Rationale/Questions
In present-day society, environmental problems are one of the most important issues facing us. Accordingly, the cognition that we should preserve environment is prevailing in Korea too. New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) measured the environmental awareness. It reported that Korean got higher marks than average (3.38 out of 5), showing relatively eco-friendly attitude. Th
White Elephant?
A white elephant is an idiom for a valuable but burdensome possession of which its owner cannot dispose and whose cost (particularly cost of upkeep) is out of proportion to its usefulness or worth.
-> 그것의 유용성에 걸맞지 않게 비싼 유지비용이
필요한 물건, 가치는 있지만 소유하기에 부담스러운 물건을 의미하는 관용구
The protection of global resources is controversial because the development of an advanced industrial society involves the exploitation of natural resources to produce goods and services for world market.
-So, how can we balance the resource needs of industrial society with the natural environment?
Authoritative Body
They could create an authoritative body to regulate the commons
How
Sense of Belonging, community and Relatedness
Complex and interact with all other needs
Urban Designers should consider it in terms of gathering places.
Through achievement and recognition by others
In architectural mechanisms, many have to do with symbolic aesthetics.
Artistic expression, Territorial control, through real or symbolic barriers.
Individuation, Self-Realizatio
3. Agriculture
Finland's climate and soils make growing crops a particular challenge. The country lies between 60° and 70° north latitude - as far north as Alaska - and has severe winters and relatively short growing seasons that are sometimes interrupted by frosts. However, because the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift Current moderate the climate, Finland contains half of the world's
(1) Commercial Banks
influential through lending practices and providing information to small and medium sized enterprises
(2) Investment Sector
can influence over large companies
(3) Insurance Sector
have influence by pricing various types of environmental risk and to help pay for environmental damages
(1) Framework to develop new services
(2) Risk management capacity
(3) Access to
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest” in his 1851 work Social Statics and later used it to characterize what Charles Darwin had called natural selection.
J.B.S. Haldane was the first to quantify fitness, in terms of the modern evolutionary synthesis of Darwinism and Mendelian genetics starting with his 1924 paper A Mathematical Theory of Natural and Artificial Selection