The Sustainability Pillars
JOURNAL Part ONE: Economic Development
Think about the definition of economic development as a pillar of sustainability. Explore the website for the company, Sherpa Adventure Gear and respond to the following questions:
- Using the frame of economic development, discuss if this is a poor, good, or exemplary example of Economic Development.
• Link to Sherpa Adventure Gear (Links to an external site.)
JOURNAL Part TWO: Social Equity
Everyone knows Target. It’s a HUGE corporation. Think about Target’s commitment to debt-free education through the lens of social equity and respond to the following questions:
- How would you measure the impact of this objective. What metrics would you use?
- Does this effort contribute to the economic development at the community level? Explain.
- How could this practice increase the bottom line (profit) for Target.
- Target: Employee Benefit ~ Debt Free Education (Links to an external site.)https://corporate.target.com/article/2021/08/target-tuition-assistance (Links to an external site.).
JOURNAL Part THREE: Environmental Impact
There is a “good/bad/good” effect of many innovations.
- What is the “good/bad/good” impact of the Amazon delivery system on the environment?
- Is there a way to get rid of the bad and only have the good? How?