Green IT For Good Corporation (What‚ Why‚ and How) Rebecca Wulankayes (1240002643) What? Green Information Technology (IT) has become an important topic in IT management research and practice in the last years due to economic opportunities and increasing pressure from stakeholders according to several researchers. Although it has been a common topic‚ the understanding of the coverage and the scope is still missing. Some researcher also prefer the term of “Green IS”. Watson et al. (2010)
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In December of 1984 there was an incident that lead to a gas leak in Bhopal‚ India that is referred to as the “Bhopal Gas Tragedy.” This gas leak is commonly referred to as one of the worst industrial disasters in history. The gas leak was at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) chemical plant in Bhopal‚ India. This chemical plant produced Sevin which is a pesticide that was commonly used throughout Asia [12]. Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) owned a little more than half the shares of the UCIL
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Sl.no |Contents |Pg no | | |Chapter 1 |Industry profile | | | |1.1 Insurance overview |5 | | |1.2 Historical perspective |6 | | |1.3 IRDA
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Strategic Profile and Case Analysis Purpose Located in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ Pro Clean is a cleaning service business owned by one Kevin Wilson. He started out as a one-man show‚ but expanded his business 2 years ago. His expansion plan was to imitate the leading company in the industry‚ King Rug’s business model. He moved his office out of his home into a commercial facility‚ hired 3 workers to do the cleaning job and purchased 2 more new vans on lease. He also started a basic website for his company
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problem statement-3 The Bhopal Gas Tragedy of December 3‚ 1984 is one of the most hazardous industrial accidents in history. The exposure of around 500‚000 people to 42 tonnes of toxic methyl isocyanate gas was a nightmare come true for all resulting in deaths in numbers that could never have been imagined from industrial accidents. All this and the after-effects could have been prevented if proper precautionary measures had been taken beforehand. Despite of an accident on such a large scale
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Green Marketing - An Introduction Due to factors such as increased media coverage‚ increased awareness of environmental issues‚ raising pressure form environmental groups‚ stringent legislation and major industrial disasters (McIntosh‚ 1991; Butler‚ 1990; Tapon and Leighton‚ 1991; Charter‚ 1992; Wagner‚ 1997) the environment has become a mainstream issue and consequentially consumers are more concerned about their habits and the effect that these have on the environment. (Krause‚ 1993). According
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Keep Our Water Clean: Clean Water Act The Clean Water Act has made advances to our society that have helped our environment to flourish with life. The objective of the Act when it was enacted in 1972 was to restore and maintain the chemical‚ physical‚ and biological integrity of the Nation’s water. This objective was accompanied by other statutory goals to eliminate the discharge of pollutants into waters used by boats by 1985 and to attain waters deemed "fishable or swimmable" by 1983. So far
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Green Marketing or Green Washing In the competitive market place‚ companies will do anything to draw consumers attention towards their products or services. Today‚ many businesses are engaging in green marketing‚ the practice of promoting environmentally-safe products. Concerns are rapidly growing that some green marketing is just green washing. Companies are guilty of green washing when they mislead their buyers into thinking that their products are environmentally-friendly. They tend to hide
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be discussing the Clean Air Act of 1970 along with the amendments made in 1977 and 1990. I will discuss the law and some of the provisions that have been made. I will discuss the economic impact as a result of this law; if there are any fines‚ costs‚ or benefits economically along with data to support this information. I will also discuss my feelings on whether this law has been beneficial and also provide information to support my answer. Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act of 1970 is
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Clean Needle Programs In the article “A Case for Clean Needle Programs”‚ Breat Whitteker and Dawn Day argue that a clean needle program in the S.D. County could save hundreds of lives. One of the many benefits of establishing a clean needle program would be that it allows not only the S.D. County to save hundreds of millions of health care dollars but it allows other counties to do so as well. Some who obstruct against this program believe that when sterile needles are given out‚ there is
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