Business Fundamentals Unit 1 Part 1 Vocabulary

A United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.

• Clean Air Act

• Climate Change

• Conservatism

• Cradle to Cradle design

A change in global or regional climate patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century outwards and attributed largely to the increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by the use of fossil fuels.

• Climate change

• Clean Air Act

• Conservatism

• Ecology

The prevention of wasteful use of resources.

• ecology

• Cradle to Cradle design

• Clean Air Act

• conservation

The collection of mechanisms, processes and relations by which corporations are controlled and operated.

• Corporate governance

• Conservation

• Ecology

• Climate change

A biometric approach to the design of products and systems that models human industry on nature's processes viewing materials as nutrients circulating in healthy, safe metabolisms.

• Cradle to cradle design

• Environmental Regulation

• Ecology

• Corporate governance

The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmental Management System

• Ecology

• Environmentally Responsible

A framework that helps an organization achieve its environmental goals through consistent review, evaluation, and improvement of its environmental performance.

• Environmental Management System

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmentally Responsible

• Encology

an independent agency of the United States federal government whose mission is to make sure the environment is clean and safe.

• Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmental Management System

• Environmentally Responsible

• Environmental Regulation

an attempt to protect public health and the environment from pollution by industry and development.

• Clean Air Act

• Ecology

• Environmental Management System

• Environmental Regulation

As it relates to sustainability and marketing terms referring to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies that claim reduced, minimal, or no harm upon ecosystems or the environment.

• Green Business

• Environmentally Responsible

• Conservation

• Corporate goverance