Summarize the required resources for your topic with a focus on explaining the arguments given. Articulate your own reflections on the videos and the articles for your focused topic choice in response to TWO of the following questions (please copy and paste the questions you’re focusing on in your post and then respond to those questions directly): Ought businesses care about their environmental impact?What theoretical frameworks best support caring for environmental effects? If businesses do care about environmental initiatives, how can they stay competitive in the marketplace? What is the value of sustainability in business, and who decides? Should corporations follow consumer demands when it comes to the environment? Should we be concerned with the depletion of the earth’s resources? Is there a moral reason for a business leader to engage in environmentally sustainable behavior? Use at least ONE example and THREE outside resources to support your points. The following resources are required based on your topic focus/choice for 6.2. Once you choose your topic, read/view the resources for the specific topic you have chosen: Topic #1: Slow Fashion, Ethics, and Sustainability – Resources: Read Sustainable and Ethical Fashion Watch Slow Fashion Watch Clara Vuletich, How to Engage with Ethical Fashion Topic #2: Consuming the Environment – Resources: Read 25 years ago I coined the phrase ‘triple bottom line.’ Here’s why it’s time to rethink it” (Elkington 2018) Watch Artist Edward Burtynsky, “Manufactured Landscapes” TEDTalk (35 minutes; watch the first 20 at minimum) Note especially the “collective appetite of our lifestyles” and the ways that Burtynsky is “looking for a human practice and activity that’s sustainable.” Topic #3: Biodiversity, Food, and the Future of the Planet – Resources: Read The Campaign to Combat Over-Fishing Read Biodiversity and Human Well-being Watch clip from the documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, about Jiro, the top sushi chef in the world, on: “The problem of overfishing” Watch Vandana Shiva on biodiversity, economics, and what she calls “capitalist patriarchy”: “Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today” sources for topic 1: https://www.sustainablejungle.com/sustainable-living/ethical-sustainable-fashion/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd2YPnd7ins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXOd4qh3JKk sources for topic 2 : https://hbr.org/2018/06/25-years-ago-i-coined-the-phrase-triple-bottom-line-heres-why-im-giving-up-on-it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2Dd4k63-zM sources for topic 3: https://business-ethics.com/2011/01/17/1433-the-campaign-to-combat-over-fishing/ https://www.greenfacts.org/en/biodiversity/l-3/1-define-biodiversity.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfY1kozT3ss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER5ZZk5atlE The following resources are required as part of one or more activities for this module: Watch Dr. Gibson’s video, “Plastics”. https://streaming.mu.edu/hapi/v1/contents/permalinks/f5JNa9y7/view Read Gibson, ch. 9: The environment Watch The Free Rider Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo51GDk8G1Q Watch A deeper look at public goods https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA2z-X31IvI Read Chapter 8, “Beneficence,” in your textbook View What is Stakeholder Theory? by R. Edward Freeman
