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Course Objectives:
CO2: Assess the main motivations for engagement in sustainable business practices.
CO6: Evaluate how businesses try to influence government and the types of responses by businesses to their legal, social, and political environment.
CO8: Develop a plan to address the political, regulatory, or technological environments that impact organizations’ supply chain sustainability and strategies.
Prompt: Review the case entitled “Chapter 10 Case: Oakhurst Dairy: Operations Management and Sustainability” in the Sustainable Business Case Book. Analyze the case responding to the following questions:
What challenges face Oakhurst in 2011 and beyond? How do Oakhurst’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions through operation changes help address the challenges?
The Natural Resources Defense Council’s November 2007 Report stated, “Although there are some exceptions, in most cases, locally produced food proves the best choice for minimizing global warming and other pollutants. In fact, another study showed that when you combined all locally grown food, it still produced less carbon dioxide emissions in transport than any one imported product. The effects all this pollution can have on our health may be reflected in high rates of asthma and other respiratory symptoms, as well as increased school absence days for children.” How does Oakhurst’s sustainable business model help to support the Natural Resources Defense Council’s findings that buying local not only helps Maine farmers but also helps the environment?
What can people do to reduce their own carbon emissions? Could this reduce their own costs and help them to save money? How?
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Label your Word document as follows: yourlastname.docx (ex: Johnson.docx)
Use the attached, APA Word Document, template provided.
Include Table of contents
Essay format; not bullet format.
Minimum 5 full pages of content (Word Document) of strategic material (does not include cover page, abstract, nor reference pages).
All charts, graphs, pictures are to go in the appendix (not a substitute for content)
Make sure you use credible and reliable resources–5 minimum (2 peer-reviewed); format in APA.
Refrain from excessive use of quotes in your response (less than 5%).
Once you submit your document to the assignment folder it will automatically be loaded to TURNITIN.COM within the course. Your similarity scan score must be 20% or less (the following will be excluded: headers, bibliography, etc.) prior to instructor grading paper—focus on the content of scan percentage.
Plagiarism will result in an automatic zero for this assignment.
There are no late assignments accepted after the last day of the course.
