Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Business
- Environmental
- Negative
- Cause of rush hour traffic jams.
- Heavy Air Emissions
- Noise pollution
- Many buildings are built from non-renewable materials
- Use massive amounts of electricity.
- Often use unethical ways which take a toll on the environment
- pesticide use
- Positive
- Large enough influence businesses can sway others to turn to a more eco-friendly building
- Bank of America
- General Electric
- Dupont
- McDonalds
- Promotes mostly online transactions
- Depending on location, it could create more convenient jobs
- Economical
- Negative
- Larger Businesses often don’t allow much room for competition from smaller businesses, therefore
killing them off
- McDonalds
- Subway
- Taco Bell
- The bankruptcy of a big company layoffs employees and can start a recession
- Walmart
- Costco
- Positive
- Money can be used to further improve the community in a variety of way
- Schools
- Roads
- Water
- Infastructure
- Potentially entices people to move to different areas due to jobs or other goods and services offered
- Mississauga- Toronto
- Saskatoon-Wheat Farming
- Oil Sands- Alberta
- Creates Jobs which in turn creates more avenues for taxable income for the community.
- Social
- Negative
- Businesses often exploit child labor
- working regulations in other countries to get their products made cheaper.
- NIKE
- Reebok
- Forever 21
- Adidas
- Joe Fresh
- Postive
- Can also often use position to broadcast messages to society.
- United Colors of Benneton
- United colors of Benetton their ads on taboo topics
- Cooperatives sell products and help others.
- An example is Cafe Feminino selling coffee to help underpaid coffee harvesters.
- Cafe Femino
- AMUL
- Ontario Natural Food Co-Op