Running head: WEEK 7 ARTICLE SUMMARY: CANOPY WALKWAYS 1 SOCS 325 Week 7 Article Summary – Canopy Walkways for Conservation Week 7 Article Summary: Canopy Walkways for Conserv ation All of the research and all of the awarness about the deforestation that is taking place in our trpoical rainforests has done little to slow the destruction of these tropical ecosystems. Many cultures that surround and live withing these ecosystems rely on the rainforst for their food supply, shelter, and economic s...

OCS-325 Week 2 Discussion: Externalities In Ch.3 Bakan takes up the economic idea of externalities (i.e. effects of transactions on third parties) and argues that the corporations’ tendency to externalize costs is at the root of many of the world’s social and environmental problems. He presents interesting examples, of cost-benefit analysis in the car industry (ex. General Motors) where passengers’ safety is concerned, of sweatshop labor in the clothing industry, and, interestingly enough,...

SOCS 325 Week 1 Discussion Question: Environmental Racism & Justice Compare & contrast, providing examples of each, the constructs of environmental racism & environmental justice. A system that objects poverty stricken communities of certain ethnic backgrounds to harmful corporate worksites is environmental racism. Without political or economic influence these communities are targeted because they are powerless without a voice on the decisions to locate worksites & powerless after the fact when ...