Picking up your a.m. latte at a local coffee house requires more than just the one cup of water that brewed your caffeine fix. Surviving the morning rush hour with latte in hand costs approximately $3.50 and plenty of water to deliver your coffee order. The coffee business is dependent upon the world’s water supply in [...]

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Fashion no longer means glitter and glitz with a superficial touch of polished elegance and eccentric designers. The creative world of design has grown socially responsible in the last couple of years, designers have acquired a grown awareness for environmental problems. Don’t be fool be appearances, eco-friendly fashion has nothing to do with a hippy-grungy look; green fashion is fresh, forward looking and as elegant and glamorous has high-end designer prêt-à-porter. Simple Shoes, a line for outdoors athletic shoes embody the combination of style and comfort blended the use of recycled materials and eco-friendly production and manufacturing procedures.

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As a mere business strategy, corporate social responsibility (CSR) can last only for a limited amount of time. Yes, it is a wise strategy to increase a firm’s reputation and the value of its products, yet if the strategy is just for appearance’s sake public opinion, environmentalist groups and journalists will gladly expose the “fraud” on all mediums of communication. The leading environmentalist cosmetics brand, The Body Shop, has gone trough many ups and down in order to reconcile business with its core ethical and environmental values.

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