The Sustainability Pillars
For this assignment, each Journal section corresponds to the Sustainability pillar reviewed in the content. Each part is worth 10 points.
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:
1. 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:
1. How would you measure the impact of this objective. What metrics would you use?
2. Does this effort contribute to the economic development at the community level? Explain.
3. 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.
1. What is the “good/bad/good” impact of the Amazon delivery system on the environment?
2. Is there a way to get rid of the bad and only have the good? How?