Month: October 2011

Coca-Cola`s efforts to promote sustainability across the globe and save endangered polar bears has been used in Coca-Cola advertising for more than 90 years. In this article, Kent explains Coca-Cola`s effort in promoting sustainability by starting partnership with the World Wildlife Fund and Colorado State University to “provide safe havens in the Canadian Arctic”. Coca-Cola did numerous things to save the endangered polar bears such as using compostable cups and bottles,delivering with hybrid electric vehicles and many more. Every company now days wants to show the world how hard they are trying to save the planet and to sustain it, but are they doing this for the right reason? Is Coca-Cola’s true intentions are to save the polar bears or just another act to be recognized by the people?What can be done to both save our planet and endangered animals?
This question i want to leave it for you to answer

CoCa Cola Bears~

Oil spills occur very frequently and cause enormous ecological harm. It is “estimated that approximately 706 million gallons of waste oil enter the ocean every year”(1) On Oct 10th, oil began to wash up on the beach in New Zealand five days after the crash of the container ship Rena. As the ship hit the reef near the Bay of Plenty, “350 tons of oil spilled from the ship” (2) and approximately 1700 tones still left on board ready to spill once again. It is stated in the article that “They`re lucky they had [good weather for] five days” as the ship is hanging by the thread hoping for the weather to stay steady. The cost to clean
the oil is not calculated yet.

However, wouldn’t it be better if we invest in our money to make the ship stronger? What can we do to prevent this tragic event from happening again?

Regardless of age, companies around the world make employees and children to work in harsh conditions and under minimum wage payment .Child labor is becoming increasingly common in China.In the article, Apple stated that “91 children under the age of 16 were discovered to be working last year in Chinese factories owned by its suppliers”  Surprisingly in 2009, Apple stated that only “eleven underage workers had been discovered”. In response to this problem, Apple said “the management had chosen to overlook the issue and was not committed to addressing the problem”. Should these kids be working under at this young age in a bad environment with such a little pay?
What can we do to help them?

It is devastating how Steve Jobs, Apple`s CEO has passed away at age 56 “fighting a well-publicized battle against pancreatic cancer since 2004”. It is said in the article that “Tributes [followed] in to commemorate the life of visionary Steve jobs”. Most importantly, what is apples next step without jobs?

Scott, a fan of Apples for 20 years stated that without Steve Jobs “It’s like the end of the innovators”
The former Apple CEO Tim Cook has already taken Steve Jobs place, however can he fulfill the visionary that jobs once had?

Recently, Apple released a new product IPhone 4S which was released instead of IPhone5. Not only the new release had brought disappointment to the apple fans but also rivals such as Samsung is catching up. Blankenhorn stated that ”Apple won’t fall quickly… but rivals will start catching up”