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You are required to select any two of three cases worth 20% each. The three available cases are
Stone & Wood – Module 4
The Pizzeria – Module 5
Climate portfolio – Module 6
Case Study 1 Stone & Wood
Question 1 Responsible business themes (6 marks)
There are numerous examples of responsible business practices throughout the Stone & Wood case study. Utilising the following themes collate these practices and identify elements that reflect responsibility in business:
localisation;
social innovation;
manage environmental footprint.
Question 2 Business strategy (6 marks)
Stone & Wood’s four-part business strategy has succeeded in building a business from a zero base to a company with a market valuation of $500,000,000 in less than 14 years.
Discuss the critically important social, ethical, environmental and long-term economic elements of their business strategy.
Question 3 A responsible business (8 marks)
Do you consider Stone & Wood to be an ethical and sustainable business? Support your view with examples from the case study.
Case Study 2 The Pizzeria
The Pizzeria is a small takeaway and home delivery pizza restaurant that has two owner-managers and five additional staff including the main chef and apprentice cook. The business premises situated in the busy regional city of Lismore, New South Wales, consist of a single storey shop front with a small garden and roof top with a few chairs where staff can relax. Although The Pizzeria has a large menu we focus our attention on their signature pizza, the famous margarita, cooked in a wood-fired brick oven and delivered in the owner’s Nissan Micra.
Required
List all of the ingredients (food inputs) required to make a margarita pizza. (2 marks)
Identify the steps in the standard system for making a margarita pizza including preparation, cooking and packaging. (2 marks)
Identify the main raw material and energy inputs and waste outputs during the production and distribution of a margarita pizza through to consumer disposal. (2 marks)
Suggest two improvements in the design of the margarita pizza and/or its packaging that could make it more sustainable; for example, think of ways energy consumption, waste and pollution could be reduced. (4 marks)
Suggest two improvements in the design of the pizza production system within the shop that could reduce water, energy or transport service consumption, waste or pollution. (4 marks)
The owners of The Pizzeria seek your advice on an ethical problem. They setup this business as a family business 10 years ago with the intention of providing long term financial security for their family of five. They are good friends with their main pizza chef who has worked tirelessly to build the business since it began. The owners’ son can also cook, and is currently unemployed. There are insufficient sales to enable two full time chefs. Their loyalty is torn between a long-time friend and business colleague, and what’s best for their family.
Describe the ethical dilemma confronting the owners of The Pizzeria. (2 marks)
What do you recommend they should do? Provide a strong and rational argument to support your view. Identify additional information you need to more fully understand this dilemma. (4 marks)
Case Study 3 Climate response portfolio activity
You are required to build a portfolio of climate change responses that targets climate action at multiple levels.
Portfolio component
A. Narrative/slogan + Image
B. Personal change
C. Local and regional impacts
D. Global funding of climate action
E. New technology
A. Narrative or slogan and image (4 marks)
In your climate response portfolio include a short (less than 50 words) narrative or slogan that reflects your own view of climate change and how you intend to draw attention to the problem, together with an image suitable for media release.
B. Personal level change (4 marks)
In Assignment 2 you used an online calculator to calculate your personal ecological footprint. Using this information, identify four possible changes you can make to your current lifestyle that will reduce your contribution to climate change. Will you make these changes? If not, why?
C. Regional climate impacts (4 marks)
Whilst many environmental problems are evidenced on a global scale, many are visible at a local or regional level. Identify major social and environmental impacts in your region that are directly connected to climate change.
D. Global funding (4 marks)
This component of your portfolio needs to address the global funding of the cost of mitigation and adaptation policies implemented in economically developing countries. Who do you believe should pay the cost of climate mitigation and adaptation? What is a possible economic mechanism that will make these economic actors pay?
E. Technology (4 marks)
You can find online many examples of green technology suitable for households, business and large economic infrastructure projects. Select and describe a relevant new technology to reduce energy consumption or carbon emissions to mitigate human-caused climate change.
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