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The ecological footprint is a tool for helping us to visualize the impacts we make on the environment.  For a brief overview of the concept, please watch this one-minute video The Ecological Footprint Explained prior to beginning work on this discussion, You will take on the challenge of lessening your impacts on the environment, through reducing the size of your ecological footprint.

PART A

Use the footprint tool from the web page What is Your Ecological Footprint? to calculate your ecological footprint.  At every opportunity, please select the “add details to imporve activity, make a note of how many earths would be required if everyone lived like you.  Then click on “see details” to obtain the following information:

Your ecological footprint, in global hectares (a hectare is about two and half acres).

Your top three consumption categories.

Finally research some ways you might reduce your footprint, identifying a few specific ones that you might put into practice throughout the course.

Part B Household Carbon Emissions Footprint

Next use the Carbon Footprint Calculator to calculate your household carbon emissions footprints.  After answering all the questions

Make a note of your carbon emissions footprint in pounds.  Is that above or below the average household carbon footprint in the US?

Also explore specific actions you might take to reduce your footprint.  Which of them might be practical to undertake in the next five weeks?

Part C  Water Footprint Calculator to calculate you daily water footprint.  After answering all the questions:

Make a note of your gallons per day water footprint

Record the top three contributors to it

Scroll down the page to access a series of Tips buttons you can click on for advice on reducing your footprint.  Again make not of some specific ideas you see that might be practical to implement.

Your discussion should include all the information you gathered about your consumption habits from your three footprint calculations by answering the following questions

What did you learn that surprised you about your consumption habits?

Propose a minimum of five lifestyle changes you could make that would reduce one or more of the three footprints.  These do not have to be the ones you use in this course-long project. over the course of the discussion you may opt to select other ones based upon classmates’ recommendations.  You will be recording your final choices for lifestyle changes in your journal at the end of the week.

For each lifestyle change, identify which footprint you would be lowering by doing it.  Discuss potential obstacles to making those changes, and then suggest ways you might overcome those obstacles.  

200 words , I don;t need a title page and all that.. Just put it as a discussion

 

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HEALTH POLICYThe Canadian Constitution delineates the responsibilities and authority of the federal and provincial governments with respect to health care. Since the Constitution was enacted, health care costs continually increased, and the federal and provincial governments eventually had to agree to jointly fund a number of health programs. Describe two of these programs and explain their impact on health care in the country.

It is true that managed healthcare system has improved the healthcare in Canada to a largeextent both in terms of costs and efficiency but still the issue of dedicated healthcaremaintenance…

 

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Hi, need to submit a 750 words essay on the topic Project Management Processes in Organizations.

And even if stored in some physical or conceptual storage area, what processes, procedures and techniques should be applied on them and what does the management want out of it?

The answer to the previous section query is in this section i.e. implementation of a CRM i.e. Customer Relationship Management System. Once such a system is implemented, all the data collected from any and every source can be stored and analysed to form strategies, policies and plan of actions. For this purpose, it would be a better option to have an expert of the field being hired who takes care of everything i.e. from selection of the system to the final implementation and maintenance. This would not pressurize the IT department by any means and work would be done in a highly professional environment by some good experts of the industry. It is important to note that end-user involvement is extremely crucial for such applications development and testing and prototyping are the tools that assist these operations so it should be binding on the vendor to ensure maximum end-user involvement in the process.

Not long ago, I was working in a super market that was running along with its good will and customer service. The thing that attracted most of the customer was the fact that the owners used to roam around in the shop, taking opinions, first hand complaints from the customer and having a 1-to-1 relation with them. The business goal was to have satisfied customer and thus, generating marketing through word-of-mouth, and giving the customers an experience of shopping that they never had before. With the advancements of e-commerce, the super market developed an online shopping web site, which seemingly looked like going against the business goals because due to online shopping, people won’t come for interactive shopping where its easier to interact and take feedbacks for improvements, and even at times offer good discounts and

 

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Leadership and Managing

This week you reflected upon the difference between a “manager” and a “leader” and discussed this concept with your classmates and professor in the discussion board. In a written essay please answer the following questions:

  • What are the differences between leaders and managers? What characteristics are similar and what are different?
  • Provide a total of three examples. First, someone who has great managerial skills. Second, another individual with great leadership skills. Third, another person with poor managerial skills. These can be made up individuals or examples you have seen without any identifying information. Discuss how the staff of each individual would be affected by the skills of the leader/manager. Minimum of 1600 words, three scholarly references in APA style writing which include running head.

 

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