Environmental Issues

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Learning Activity #1 

"In July of 1975, national attention was drawn to the city of Hopewell Virginia when news broke alerting the public to the poisoning of workers at a factory that manufactured an insecticide called Kepone. The story ballooned into an environmental crisis when authorities found the James River and many of its species of marine life saturated with the chemical." The Legacy of Kepone, Virginia Humanities, Retrieved February 18 from: https://www.virginiahumanities.org/2016/12/the-legacy-of-kepone/

Perhaps because the crisis occurred in the 1970’s we now have a “just right” historical perspective that’s not too old, and not too new, affording us the ability to analyze the case from many perspectives. In addition to the above quoted article, additional reference articles are included here. 

VIMS: Kepone could soon be history in the James River, Daily Press, July 8, 2017, Retrieved Feb 18 from: https://www.dailypress.com/news/science/dp-nws-kepone-update-vims-20170624-story.html 

Kepone Poisoning of Workers 1975 Hopewell Virginia, Published August 29, 2008, Retrieved February 18, 2019 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_d7ySgrlg

In our Week 7 readings and Chapter 14 of our text, Environmental Ethics and Sustainable Business Practices were presented from a number of perspectives, including a 5 point range of approaches as presented in ourtext chapter 14.     

For this week’s LA, please analyze and discuss the 5 approaches using the Kepone, Allied Chemical, Hopewell case.  You may use the above referenced articles and additional reliable internet sources to support your analysis.  At a minimum address:

• Natural Resources and the Environmental impact.
• Governmental Agencies and their role in protecting the environment
• Business’ corporate social responsibility and/or legal requirements.

  The Business Ethics Workshop (2012) Washington, DC: The Saylor Foundation 

Chapter 13 The Responsible Office: Corporations and Social Responsibility 

chapter 14: The Green Office: Economics and the Environment

https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/textbooks/The%20Business%20Ethics%20Workshop.pdf

 

Theme 1:  Ethical Issues Related to the Environment

• What is Environmental History
• Environmental Ethics?
• Perdue Farms Changes Rules for Chicken Care
• When some US firms move production overseas, they also offshore their pollution
• Fracking Is Dangerous To Your Health -- Here's Why
• Global Scarcity: Scramble for Dwindling Natural Resources
• The Needs of 7 Billion People
• Deforestation: Facts, Causes & Effects
• Environmental Racism

Theme 2:  Sustainable Business Practices

• Stepping Towards Sustainable Business: An Evaluation of Waste Minimization Practices in US Manufacturing
• A Corporate Model of Sustainable Business Practices
• Environmental Sustainability in Business