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Alexia Ometz

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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  • Both Nike and Coke are responding internally: Coke uses water-conservation technologies and Nike is using more synthetic material that is less dependent on weather conditions. At Davos and in global capitals, the companies are also lobbying governments to enact environmentally friendly policies.
  • Coke’s vice president for environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said were also disrupting the company’s supply of sugar cane and sugar beets, as well as citrus for its fruit juices.
  • global warming as a force that contributes to lower gross domestic products, higher food and commodity costs, broken supply chains and increased financial risk. Their position is at striking odds with the longstanding argument, advanced by the coal industry and others, that policies to curb carbon emissions are more economically harmful than the impact of climate change.
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  • ven the most conservative estimates peg the social benefit of carbon-based fuels as 50 times greater than its supposed social cost.”
  • n Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based club of 34 industrialized nations, has begun to warn of the steep costs of increased carbon pollution.
  • Nike, which has more than 700 factories in 49 countries, many in Southeast Asia, is also speaking out because of extreme weather that is disrupting its supply chain. In 2008, floods temporarily shut down four Nike factories in Thailand, and the company remains concerned about rising droughts in regions that produce cotton, which the company uses in its athletic clothes.
    • Alexia Ometz
      Alexia Ometz on 09 Apr 14
       
      Why is the cheaper electricity helping to raise so many people out of poverty? And why in China and Inda?
  • as high energy costs, declining industrial competitiveness and a recognition that the economy is unlikely to rebound soon caused European policy makers to question the short-term economic trade-offs of climate policy.
  • “There will be agriculture and economic effects — it’s inescapable.” He added, “I’d be shocked if people supported anything other than a carbon tax — that’s how economists think about it.”
    • Alexia Ometz
      Alexia Ometz on 09 Apr 14
       
      I find it interesting and surprising that high energy costs are causing declining competitiveness between industries because it just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. It maybe causes different companies to go broke or stop manufacturing different things because of the high costs of producing them. 
    • Alexia Ometz
      Alexia Ometz on 09 Apr 14
       
      This part shows how this article is related to industry. Nike has different factories, which is part of industry. Also, it talks about how different factors would cause factories to shut down, such as droughts. Many people would go out of jobs because of this happening for a certain length of time, which we have talked about in the industry and service chapters. 
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      Alexia Ometz on 09 Apr 14
       
      This section talks about globalization and nature-culture. It shows globalization because of the different factories that Nike owns, and even with most in the same place, Southeast Asia, they sell to the entire world. It shows nature-culture with the different factories having to close because of floods. 
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      Alexia Ometz on 09 Apr 14
       
      http://environment.about.com/od/waterpollution/a/groundwater_ind.htm This article connects because the beginning of this article talks about how Coca-Cola is using up water and creating droughts to produce its drinks. 
  • jared snell on 10 Apr 14
     
    Just an idea in all, but if this so-called carbon tax is passed wouldn't it raise the price of goods? But then again, I guess companies have to make up the deficient somehow.
  • Elina Wright on 10 Apr 14
     
    It's crazy to think that a company has so much power that even though it is depleting water supplies and causing pollution it is still not shut down. This is probably due to lack of knowledge consumers have and the mass of money that the company has.
Mr. Reidy

Urbanization | UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund - 0 views

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Urban Patterns

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  • For many people, cities represent a world of new opportunities, including jobs. There is a powerful link between urbanization and economic growth. Around the world, towns and cities are responsible for over 80 per cent of gross national product. While urban poverty is growing around the world, this is largely because many people – including the poor – are moving to urban areas.
  • The opportunities there extend beyond just jobs. Cities also offer greater opportunities for social mobilization and women’s empowerment. Many young people, especially young women, regard the move to cities as an opportunity to escape traditional patriarchy and experience new freedoms. Urban areas also offer greater access to education and health services, including sexual and reproductive health care, further promoting women’s empowerment and the realization of their reproductive rights. This contributes to significantly reduced fertility in urban areas, changing the trajectory of overall population growth. The urbanization process – which is particularly pronounced in Africa and Asia, where much of the world’s population growth is taking place – is also an enormous opportunity for sustainability, if the right policies are put in place. Urban living has the potential to use resources more efficiently, to create more sustainable land use and to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems.
  • Mr. Reidy on 29 Apr 15
     
    What are the causes and effects of urbanization? Read this article to learn more. (**Hint. Hint)
Mr. Reidy

PRIZM > Market Segmentation, Market Segmentation Research, Market Segment Research, Mar... - 0 views

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Services Urban Patters

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  • Mr. Reidy on 22 Apr 15
     
    How might this tool help you determine the model of your selected US cities? 
jas0nalbert

U.S. officials: Number of Chinese spies in U.S. spikes - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • jas0nalbert on 23 Aug 15
     
    The given article informs readers of the growth of the amount of Chinese secret agents in the United States and the reasons for why they are there. The United States government does not know of said spies' whereabouts. "The agents are from the Ministry of Public Security, China's security service. U.S. officials charged Wednesday that the increase suggests China lacks concern for U.S. laws." (Scuitto, Scott). This is a repeating issue, as United States representatives "warned China to stop using covert law enforcement agents on U.S. soil." (Scuitto, Scott). China states that it is not breaching any legal contracts, it is only fighting corruption in a program called Fox Hunt 2015. This shows the theme of globalization, as Chinese spies are within the United States' boundaries. The information they retrieve (as gathering is in the nature of being a spy) will affect China somehow. That action crossing continents is a link between those continents, and links the world together in this way.
williamadams

UK 'has failed to create enough high-skilled jobs for graduates' - 0 views

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Migration Development AND Population

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  • williamadams on 19 Aug 15
     
    This article has interesting relationship with globalization. Due to modern technology jobs are moving, and in some instances disappearing altogether. A good example of this is car manufacturing. Detroit was a major factory town that pumped out hundred of thousands of cars in its prime and had a very strong economy. When the factories left Detroit the town failed. The factory workers were for the most part uneducated and as such were unable to find new jobs. This resulted in Detroit's economy collapsing. A similar process occurred in many US factory towns. These jobs have since moved to developing countries with less strict labor laws, and lower or non existent minimum wages. This has propelled countries like China upward economically. Some processes have been automated to the point that humans are really only needed to service the machinery, this has resulted in some jobs disappearing entirely. As technology improves this could happen more and more, for example self driving cars (http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/). There are roughly sixty thousand cab drivers in New York City, when self driving cars become functional all those people will be out a job. Looking at the hospitality industry, specifically fast food giant, McDonalds, some positions such as cashier could potentially be automated in the next years (http://www.inquisitr.com/1594675/mcdonalds-counters-minimum-wage-hike-15-automation/). And so with more and more unskilled positions being moved across the globe or obsoleted and insufficient skilled positions that ask's the question "How will people support themselves?"
  • Mr. Reidy on 21 Aug 15
     
    Thank you for the thorough response, William. This was an interesting article and a thought-provoking question. I wonder if the rise in automation of tasks will advance our development.
amadar

Same-sex marriage case - 3 views

Link: www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/us/colorado-same-sex-wedding-cake/index.html This article talks about a court ruling in the United States preventing discrimination in a same-sex marriage case. The ow...

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rdeveney

'Infidels are our enemy': Afghan fighters cherish old American schoolbooks | Al Jazeera... - 2 views

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Ethnicity and Religion

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  • More alarmingly for U.S. and international forces still in the country, the textbooks describe all nonbelievers as the enemy. “Our religion is Islam. Muhammad is our leader. All the Russians and infidels are our enemy.”
  • That built resentment toward foreigners and Kabul in some villages passed over for such support. “If people perceive that their enemy is getting more of those services, then that could contribute to the underlying conditions for conflict,
  • “When you have a school not set up in a government structure but in a home or a mosque, in the village, protected by the village and supported by the villagers, the likelihood of the school being attacked is reduced,” she said. “And you don't have construction, so you don't have problems with contracts.”
  • rdeveney on 18 Dec 14
     
    There was conflict between the Taliban and the Westerns and those who support the western views, because of the different religious and ethnic views. For example westerns believe women should be educated just like men, but the Taliban is against women education. Why is a school in a home that teaches the same thing that a governmentally funded school less likely to be attacked, since the Taliban is still against those ideas?
  • mholbert on 21 Dec 14
     
    I think that as long as the Taliban are in control there will always be violence between the Taliban and the Westerners. Women should be educated just like men, but as long as the Taliban have power, I do not think that will happen. The Taliban showed just how much they are against women getting an education when they shot Malala Yousafzai in the head on her way home from school. Schools in homes are less likely to be attacked than schools run by the government because they have the protection and support of the village and villagers. The Taliban might also target government run schools because they oppose the government.
samin1

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/world/asia/north-korea-denying-sony-attack-proposes-j... - 4 views

Right after President Obama announced that the Sony hackers came from North Korea, North Koreans defended themselves by offering(more threatening the US to add them) their services to the investiga...

Ethnicity AND Political Geography

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rscolforo

Atheists: the new persecuted minority, international report concludes (COMMENTARY) - Re... - 1 views

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religion

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  • Atheists, humanists and liberals are now the targets of hate campaigns, according to a new Freedom of Thought Report, which found that some countries find the idea of atheism as a popular movement a threat to the prevailing order.
  • And in a more widely reported story in June, Egyptian authorities proposed an organized campaign against atheists.
  • To some readers, maybe this won’t sound very controversial. But imagine the developments above, applied to other groups: The Jews are “deviant.” The Muslims are a kind of “new religion” that will bring down the state. Or, Christian thought is a form of “terrorism.”
  • rscolforo on 19 Dec 14
     
    This conflict connects to territorial conflicts among religious groups because it talks about how various countries are starting to persecute Atheists and target them with hate campaigns. Why have countries started to bring up the past of Religious prosecution if it destroyed so many lives in events like The Holocaust?
  • llabell on 22 Dec 14
     
    This is different from the religious conflicts we discussed in class because the conflict between Palestine and Israel is mainly over the land, whereas this example of persecution is a result of the concept of atheism. In addition, Saudi Arabia, one of the countries mentioned in the article, is almost all Muslim and religious freedom is virtually nonexistent. Of course a country like this one will not tolerate atheists as other religions and freedoms are also extremely restricted.
jbasom

Ethnic minorities under-represented and under-paid | Scoop News - 3 views

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Ethnicity

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  • Public servants from ethnic minorities continue to be under-represented in the senior management of government departments and they continue to be paid significantly below the average public service salary according to Multicultural New Zealand.
  • But Maori, Pacific and Asian public servants are mainly clustered in lower paid occupations and thus suffer from an “ethnic pay gap”.
  • But Maori, Pacific and Asian public servants are mainly clustered in lower paid occupations and thus suffer from an “ethnic pay gap”
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  • “While one might not expect the ethnic pay gap to reduce substantially from one year to the next, the almost total lack of progress (and actual regression) over five years is disappointing to say the least” said Multicultural New Zealand.
  • jbasom on 18 Dec 14
     
    In this article, ethnic groups, such as the Maori, which are found in New Zealand, are getting paid lower wages and they are not considered equal to the other non-ethnic groups. Even though this has not escalated to a full out war (yet), what would happen if the Maori stopped putting up with being "inferior" to the other groups? Would a territorial conflict arise? I think the answers to these questions are obvious because land equals money, which equals power. So, for these Maori people to get the equality they deserve, maybe all they need is a territorial war to gain back power?
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  • carke1 on 19 Dec 14
     
    But is it a good idea to start a war? The Muslims and Jews have been fighting for 2,000 years which proves that maybe that's not the best idea. If they want the power back so bad, I feel like there has to be another way to go, especially since wars can go on for long periods of time.
  • bbaker2 on 19 Dec 14
     
    Jocy and Catherine- I think that something definitely has to be done to try to fix this problem, but I also don't think that a war would be the best idea in resolving this issue. There does have to be some other way to solve this, but at the same time, a peaceful agreement most likely won't be effective either. Neither several territorial wars or a peaceful agreement worked for the Arab-Israeli conflict over territory, so what makes you think a territorial war would work for them?
  • jbasom on 22 Dec 14
     
    I agree that a war for territory isn't a good idea, but at the same time, they don't have the rights they deserve. Right now there isn't a war going on, so a "peace agreement" isn't really possible, because there is nothing upsetting the peace. I think the Maori people are taking baby steps to getting the privileges they deserve but they aren't making the progress that they want to, yet.
  • ecahill1 on 22 Dec 14
     
    I don't think war is a good idea, it seems that if the people want equal pay, they have to do something about it. As seen in the Arab-Israeli conflict, it may not be the best idea to go to war, but perhaps the people need to do something else.
  • jennabohrer on 22 Dec 14
     
    I agree with Brooke. Despite the fact that land equals money and money equals power, does a war guarantee that the minority group will gain land and thereby power to be paid the same amount? In addition, a war requires political power and money in order to gain access to resources. If the minority group has little power to begin with, how are they to obtain the resources necessary to win a war? There must be a better solution to this issue than to go to war.
jbasom

Gaza residents return home during war to destruction - 0 views

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  • jbasom on 17 Aug 14
     
    Why would Gaza residents risk going back home if they knew that daily bombings, lack of vital services, and the destruction of their homes and belongings is dangerously inevitable?
  • Mr. Reidy on 17 Aug 14
     
    Great question. Any thoughts, APHUG?
  • owencourtney on 25 Aug 14
     
    Possible the people heard a rumor that the war was almost over. Or maybe they just want to return to their home in which they've been living in for the past years and have a connection to it. Lastly, people might have a feeling that if they grew up in a house they're ok to die in it too.
Mr. Reidy

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Roots Reggae and Rebellion, Part One - 2 views

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Folk and Pop Culture AND Themes of Geography

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  • Mr. Reidy on 13 Aug 14
     
    Time to try out your Diigolet highlighter tool ... find at least one example in the article that shows how Rastafarian culture diffused across the globe. No problem, mon.
owencourtney

Education | VSO international - 0 views

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Development

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  • owencourtney on 28 Feb 15
     
    Education is a basic human right. All people around the globe should have equal access to education. The reason I really like this charity is because it focuses on education. Education | VSO international main goal is to provide education to all, and most importantly ones who are at a disadvantage, including women, the sick and ethnic minorities. They work directly with their local and international partners to increase the number of qualified teachers, improve leadership and management of education services, increase community engagement, and promote evidence-based policy and practice. "Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings" ~Nelson Mandela
Kelly Gallick

American-Made Clothing Companies Find Ways To Survive As Others Chase Cheap Labor Abroad - 5 views

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industry services

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      Kelly Gallick on 03 Apr 14
       
      Most of the apparel that we wear is made in another country, and very rarely do I see something made in the US, which makes sense because the foreign-made clothing is much cheaper.
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      Kelly Gallick on 03 Apr 14
       
      The topic of outsourcing is linked to globalization because industries aren't just located in one area, but have some branches in other countries that have cheaper labor or products, which is connecting the world.
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      Kelly Gallick on 03 Apr 14
       
      In the industrial sector, you learn that in countries that have a surplus of workers, the wages tend to be very low. Large industries use this as an advantage and send some of their products to these countries to save money and to make more.
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      Kelly Gallick on 03 Apr 14
       
      New technologies are cutting down on production prices and therefore cutting down on the amount of outsourcing that industries do, but are the prices of the technologies cheaper than the prices of the cheap labor overseas?
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      Kelly Gallick on 03 Apr 14
       
      http://www.epi.org/publication/bp336-us-china-auto-parts-industry/ This additional current event talks about the auto industry and how many are based in the US, but most of the small parts that go into making the cars are make in developing countries, like China. This is becoming a problem because some American workers are out of jobs due to the workers in China that do the same amount of work for less pay. Outsourcing of the apparel industry and the auto industry are very similar in this regard.
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  • Henry has been in the apparel business for three decades, enough to see nearly all of his competitors disband or head overseas in search of workers who will do the job for lower wages. Henry has taken the opposite route, shrinking the geographic scope of his supply chain and making that a marketing feature.
  • Workers at TS Designs in North Carolina are paid an average of $15 an hour,
  • estimated .
  • His “most sustainable” T-shirt, which uses certified organic cotton, a transparent supply chain, with a patented environmentally-friendly print and dye system, costs around $14 wholesale. The same type of shirt would cost about $8 to make overseas, he estimated
  • The average factory worker in Bangladesh makes $0.21 an hour,
  • bargains on store shelves in Los Angeles and Philadelphia may come at the expense of people toiling in unsafe conditions in Dhaka and Guatemala City.
  • quality of raw materials
  • His shirts are made in America, and not on the other side of the world, in a poor country in which workers may be mistreated.
  • If you take production overseas, the labor cost would be less than $1. The fabric and design cost doesn’t change much, he said, especially for a simple piece of apparel like a T-shirt.
  • “This industry is so mobile that it gets fixed in one place and then pops up somewhere else,” Rivoli said.
  • But American apparel manufacturing may eventually see a resurgence, some experts said. The garment industry is undergoing the kind of technological change reshaping many industries:
  • Machines are increasingly attending to tasks once performed by humans. That undercuts the overall cost advantages of going overseas in search of cheaper labor.
  • As automation emerges as a greater force in the apparel trade, that could send investment back to the United States, where mastery of machinery remains a core strength.
  • Allyson Fea on 04 Apr 14
     
    Kelly! I find your annotations and article to be very interesting, as myself often wonder how American-made clothing companies survive, with foreign-made clothes being so much cheaper!! I also totally agree with you that countries with a surplus of people who need jobs in that field have very cheap labor wages. For example, the maquiladoras in Mexico. I think American clothing companies DO have an advantage in the fact that many people respect American-made brands as they are seen as higher quality and more durable. Thanks for sharing!
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  • Nathan Vrabel on 05 Apr 14
     
    What's up Gallick. You had a lot of annotations that were very helpful in understanding your article. It's unfortunate and shocking that the workers in Bangladesh only make 21 cents an hour, I find that hard to believe, although I know it's true.
  • Danyelle Allen on 07 Apr 14
     
    Kelly, I find it very interesting how this article incorporates both the desire to reestablish manufacturing in the U.S. and the outweighing factors, such as labor costs, that attract businesses to LDCs. In addition, the article describes the evident connection between labor cost and working conditions. For example, workers in Bangladesh are only paid $0.21 and hour, while recently there was a factory collapse that killed many workers. This portrays that with low labor cost also comes poor working conditions.
  • cmerris on 09 Apr 14
     
    Kelly G, great article! This article proved my hunch that American made clothing is better quality than ones made in foreign countries though more expensive. I found this very interesting and reminds me of some of the Made in America things that I have seen on TV. I believe that if American companies put more stress on the quality of clothing they are making that outsourcing competitors may start having troubles.
  • Nick Miller on 11 Apr 14
     
    Companies have now started to transition to finding the cheapest cost for the production of their products instead of quality. What paths will companies have to take if countries like Bangladesh start to develop more and price of labor rises globally? I assume that greed has taken over in today's world that we look for the cheap way to make products instead of making a great quality one.
  • Alexia Ometz on 11 Apr 14
     
    I found this article very interesting, mainly because of the difference in cost of apparel made in the United States versus in a lower wage country, such as Bangladesh. I find it very hard to believe that they only get paid 21 cents an hour! Overall, I think that our country needs to look at clothing not by how cheap it is, but how it was made and what certain people had to go through to make it.
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