Corporation Business
In the CERES standards, corporations agreed to follow how many standards?
10
An American baby will consume 20 times more resources than a baby in _____.
Africa
Fertilizers, pesticides, and high yield crops have more than ____ the amount of food produces in the world.
Doubled
The year __ __ __ __ was the hottest year on record.
2016
Gandhi said, "The Earth provides enough to satisfy every person's _____, but not every person's greed.
Need
Where a company says it is environmentally friendly, but pollutes anyway is known as ____ ____.
Green washing
Of the 7 things we want in life, one is having convenient ____.
Transportation
In the U.S. ____% of our food is wasted.
40%
Acid rain was a problem between what two countries?
United States and Canada
The Exxon Valdez spilled oil near the state of ____.
Alaska
Corporations are legal entities designed to operate at a _____.
Profit
Of the 7 things we want in life, we want comfortable ________.
Homes
The 3 major wastes from making food are smoke, food wastes, and ____.
Heat
Each day 850 million people go hungry, but ____ million children will die.
6
Instead of dumping wastes into rivers, corporations should build ___________.
Treatment plants
Industrial ecology forces industry to account for where the ____ is going.
Waste
Americans are 4.85% of the world's population but consume ____% of the world's oil.
22%
In 2000, there were the same number of ____ people compared to those who were malnourished.
Overweight.
Americans think environmental problems can be fixed by using ____.
Technology
The countries of Israel, U.S., Russia, and Saudi Arabia came together to work on ____ issues.
Environmental issues
The triple bottom line concept for corporations has 3 main ideas: 1) Financial, 2) Social, 3) ________.
Environmental
Industrialized nations contain __ __% of the population, but consume 80% of the world's goods and create the most pollution.
20%
Uncertainy of future food production is influenced by: 1) decreasing soil fertility, 2)desertification and erosion, 3) repeated chemical operations, and 4)____.
Loss of crop ground to urbanization
The area of earth's productive land and water required by every individual as well as to absorb their wastes is called the Ecological _____ of the person.
Footprint
The idea that businesses can both expand their profits and take care of the environment is called ____ ____.
Natural capitalism