For Economics, we have a number of assignments in an online system called Aplia. It’s traditional economics (don’t want us to be too far from the mainstream) and its very fun online. We get supply and demand ‘curves’ (they’re always straight lines) that we can move, price points we can slide up and down and [...]
Archive for October, 2005
Economics & Global Equity
Posted in Along the Way on October 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Friday public lectures
Posted in Along the Way on October 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Sorry for the long delay. Every friday night of intensive we have a public lecture. Our next one is Friday, November 4th. You can walk onto the Bainbridge Ferry and get a taxi to islandwood and come here the lecture. Nov 4 will be about the business case for sustainability. Check out the website: www.bgiedu.org [...]
Some definitions
Posted in Along the Way on October 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainable Development is development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” Developed at the World Commission on Environment and Development in the 1987 report Our Common Future. The organization Business for Social Responsibility defines corporate social responsibility (CSR) as “achieving commercial success in [...]
