1. What business, personal, and
social costs are involved when traveling by airplane between Copenhagen and
Helsinki?
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Business: Expensive for the
company.
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Personal: Time consuming and energy
for the person.
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Social: Frequent travelling means
less time with family and friends, and less time for oneself. It also cause environmental
pollution.
2. How can IT be both the culprit
and the solution to environmental problems?
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Solution to environmental problems:
Creating more technologies that can reduce travelling times. As examples: video
conferencing, teleconferencing, and others.
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Culprit to environmental problems: IT
can be a culprit security purposes or break downs.
3. What are the arguments against
corporate social responsibility?
These are the obstacles of
IT going green, and the idea of changing people's behavior and well established
practices. In general people do not like change, because of the expected
uncertainty.
4. Why should firms be engaged in
making the world more sustainable?
Sustainable world mean
stable minds. Firms are there for the people. People work in these firms.
Therefore this can result to efficient output. For example: In parallel to
the World Sustainable Energy Days, the Energies parmesse, an exhibition
and trade show dedicated to renewable energy sources and energy efficiency, is
held. It attracts around 100,000 visitors and around 1,000 exhibiting companies.
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