The Environment and Corporate America

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The paper looks at the connection between ecological issues and economics, noting that both words share a similar root "eco" (meaning home). The paper examines the way some corporations have discovered that it is now profitable to be "green" and are taking steps to reduce pollution and become environmentally friendly. It also focuses on other corporations' flagrant violation of environmental laws, through carelessness and greed.

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"The environment, nature, itself, can have a devastating effect on corporate operations, such as the logging companies. El Nino seasons may cause a late winter freeze and early spring break-up, "compressing the time window available to haul away harvested trees and warm and dry weather leads to forest fires the next year" (Holladay 2002). This can have a trickle down effect that touches numerous companies, such as construction, furniture, etc., which may result in layoffs due to slow production."

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