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Wal-Mart presented little new information in its first major report on efforts to become greener, but it was enough to encourage some environmental groups to say that the world’s largest retailer is trying. The report released Thursday details dozens of sustainability programs ranging from environmental to economic development, employee health care and ethics in overseas factories where it buys goods.Most have been disclosed previously, but the 64-page report is the first comprehensive catalog of dozens of programs--from organic cotton clothes to low-energy freezer cases--adopted since Chief Executive Lee Scott set three green goals in October 2005. Those goals are to be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, to create zero waste and to sell products that help sustain resources and the environment. Scott did not set any timelines, although there are deadlines for some of the steps along the way. Scott said in a foreword that the report shows Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is making progress, but still has work to do. He reiterated Wal-Mart’s stated theory of two years ago that reducing its environmental impact is a smart business move because it saves money and produces better products.Environmental Defense, which works with large companies including Wal-Mart to help them design and implement green plans, welcomed the report. "The company is moving in the right direction, and learning as it goes," the group said in a statement. Environmental Defense is the only green group to open an office, with two staff members, in Wal-Mart’s headquarters town of Bentonville, Arkansas, to coordinate the effort.Environmental Defense said, however, that Wal-Mart must provide more data and context in the sustainability report. For example, it said, the report lists new low-flow sinks that cut water use in some store bathrooms, but does not specify how many stores use the technology and what water use was before the installations."Our takeaway is that over the last two years, Wal-Mart has built the foundation for a robust environmental program with many innovative and potentially transformational projects," Environmental Defense said. Which of the following sustainability programs is NOT mentioned in Wal-Mart’s report().
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When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, what is the first thing he should doWhen a consumer finds that all itern she or he bought is broken or in some other way does not reach the standard of the manufacturer’s claim for it, the first step is to present the warranty. or any other records which might help, at the store of purchase. In most cases, this action will produce results. However, if it does not, there are various means the consumers may use to gain satisfaction.A simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager. In general, the“higher, up”the consumer takes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be tackled. In such a case, it is usually settled in the consumer’s favor, assuming he or she has a just claim.Consumers should complain in person whenever possible, but if they can not get to the place of purchase, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter.Complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consumer can demonstrate what is wrong with the itern in question. If this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements. For example, “The left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of the right one is unclear”is better than“this stereo does not work”.The store manager may advise the consumer to write to the manufacturer. If so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and as firmly as possible. But if a polite complaint does not achieve the desired result, the consumer can go a stemp further. She or he can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a private or public organization responsible for protecting consumers’rights. When a consumer finds that his purchase has a fault in it, what is the first thing he should do ().
In the world of management, employees are nonexempt or exempt, depending on whether they get paid for overtime or not. (21) a creative scientist, like a creative artist, does not see his or her time. The very idea of a creative scientist (22) out time sheets is ludicrous. Fascination in science cannot be turned on or off on (23) The creative mind continues to wander (24) the body eats, exercises, or sleeps. Interruptions in or out of the laboratory, the library, the office or the home study may (25) a promising effort. (26) the well-established practice of moonlighting. Do what you need to do to keep the wolf (27) from the door, the world (28) your thesis adviser, team leader, or laboratory director. Then use the rest of your time, perhaps at night or on the weekends, to do (29) you really want to do. All of us who had done science know how to (30) effectively. So many scientific books are prefaced by remarks such as "I thank my spouse, who tolerated my awful antics while this book was being written." I (31) that some of the most creative results to come out of my laboratory were obtained by graduate students or postdoctoral assistants in the (32) of my instructions or even (33) against them. The creative mind has a vision. And vision, (34) Jonathan Smith, is the art of seeing things (35) . To try to explain a vision can get one into serious trouble, as Joan of Arc (圣女贞德) found out. It is better to moonlight until things become visible.
In the world of management, employees are nonexempt or exempt, depending on whether they get paid for overtime or not. (21) a creative scientist, like a creative artist, does not see his or her time. The very idea of a creative scientist (22) out time sheets is ludicrous. Fascination in science cannot be turned on or off on (23) The creative mind continues to wander (24) the body eats, exercises, or sleeps. Interruptions in or out of the laboratory, the library, the office or the home study may (25) a promising effort. (26) the well-established practice of moonlighting. Do what you need to do to keep the wolf (27) from the door, the world (28) your thesis adviser, team leader, or laboratory director. Then use the rest of your time, perhaps at night or on the weekends, to do (29) you really want to do. All of us who had done science know how to (30) effectively. So many scientific books are prefaced by remarks such as "I thank my spouse, who tolerated my awful antics while this book was being written." I (31) that some of the most creative results to come out of my laboratory were obtained by graduate students or postdoctoral assistants in the (32) of my instructions or even (33) against them. The creative mind has a vision. And vision, (34) Jonathan Smith, is the art of seeing things (35) . To try to explain a vision can get one into serious trouble, as Joan of Arc (圣女贞德) found out. It is better to moonlight until things become visible.
The magnitude of the problem of disappearing species, viewed worldwide, dwarfs resources currently available to address it. By the end of the century, experts predict, one species will be lost every hour. Faced with shrinking budgets and accelerating extinction rates, environmental managers agonize over which species to save. (1) Different criteria for placing value on species--ecological, economic, aesthetic, cultural--compete with one another, and controversy abounds. One proposal for sidestepping direct debates about the value of species is to adopt a system of triage, which takes its name from the French policy of sorting wartime casualties into three categories for medical treatment: those with superficial wounds that do not require immediate attention; those with wounds too serious to make treatment efficacious; and those in the middle range, having serious but treatable wounds. Once the issue is formulated in this manner, it seems obvious that efforts toward species preservation are best concentrated in the third category. (2) Scarce funds and energies should be targeted at saving those species that are both in need of saving and susceptible to being saved. But the most arresting formulation of an issue is not always the most illuminating one; (3) it will be useful to stand back from the triage formulation (三级分类法), which casts the problem of setting priorities as one of sorting species into categories, and ask whether there are other, more fruitful ways to look at the problem. The endangered species problem is not a single problem. It is more accurately seen as four closely related problems: what should be done when a species’ population becomes so depleted as to threaten its continued existence; (4) what should be done to keep relatively healthy populations from declining and thereby falling into the threatened category; how to avert, or at least slow, the predicted and potentially cataclysmic reduction of biological diversity over the next few decades; and how to slow the trend toward conversion of natural systems to intense human use In the triage formulation the priorities problem is most naturally associated with the first question, because it considers threats to individual species. (5) Once threatened, species require management initiatives designed to protect and nurture them, individually. But the goal of protecting biological diversity should not be reduced to the goal of protecting remnant populations of threatened species. If one thinks about the endangered species problem in this way, there is a tendency to treat it as merely a problem of protecting genetic diversity, with each species regarded as a repository for a set of genes.
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