Despite accounting for approximately 8% of landfill usage in addition to detrimentally affecting waterways via the improper disposal of dyes or other chemical agents, there remains a potential beacon for hope in correcting some of the major affronts to our environment.
Unfolding alongside the constitutive demands for transparency, policymakers have also begun to more stringently examine ways to mitigate firms’ exaggerated or unsubstantiated sustainability claims (aka greenwashing) in order to facilitate greater transparency and environmental accountability.
Amidst growing concerns about climate change, there have been numerous calls for more sustainable and socially responsible fashion on a global scale (Brooks et al., 2017). Despite both industry efforts and increased consumer awareness on this matter, there has yet to be significant action undertaken that successfully influences consumers to shop more sustainably.
The articles in this research package provide the real science for Post York by James Romberger, edited & published by Karen Berger for Berger Books at Dark Horse Comics. They offer insights into what New York would really be like after a major flooding event.
While warming and increasingly acidic ocean water will provide existing pathogens a greater foothold in New York City over time, another relevant consideration is the emergence of ‘zombie viruses.’
Aside from the climate crisis threatening food production by destabilizing growing regions, sea level rise will distress the infrastructure used to bring that food into New York City.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy the loss of life and property highlighted that the proximity to water, which had once made New York City a global economic powerhouse had become a liability and preventative action would be required. Sandy’s destructive power can largely be attributed to a storm surge of about 9 ft.
At a basic level, the new Antitrust Movement is about restricting unfair business practices enabled by new technologies and digital business models.
Examining the Business Implications of Amazon’s Anti-Competitive Conduct and Congressional Investigation’s Policy Recommendations
Most of the New Brandeisians’ arguments focus on the way monopolies by their very nature concentrate power among several individuals and the danger of affording digital oligarchs a disproportionate amount of power.
The Chicago School believed a laissez-faire approach with minimum government intervention would result in the most efficient allocation of resources, assuming that a self-correcting market composed of rational actors would maximize their own self-interest.