Problem 1: The case study "Corporate and Personal Choices Regarding the Environment of the Future"
Should corporations and individual consumers bear joint responsibility for sustaining the environment? Why or why not?
a. What obligation does each of us have to be aware of our own carbon footprint?
b. If individual consumers have some obligation to support environmentally friendly technologies, should all consumers bear this responsibility equally? Or just those with the economic means to do so?
c. How should society decide about matters related to environmental responsibility?
Problem 2: The case study "Unilever "Enhancing Livelihoods" through Project Shakti"
a. Do Unilever sponsors the Shakti program to help women, to boost its own profits, or both? Could we explain the answer?
b. If Unilever has mixed motives, does this discredit the company in your eyes? Should it?
c. How is this program an example of both corporate and personal sustainability?
d. Could this model program be duplicated elsewhere, in another area and with different products? Why or why not?