Sustainability Cases

A restaurant has hired a new supplier for its to-go packages: this supplier only uses compostable materials. As it has marketed this change as an eco-friendly business, its revenue has increased as well as its social media presence. The employees used to have social benefits and training but with the investment in new packaging those benefits were lost. Classify this case.

• Sustainable

• Bearable

• Equitable

• Viable

A restaurant has hired a new supplier for its to-go packages: this supplier only uses compostable materials. As it has marketed this change as an eco-friendly business, its revenue has increased as well as its social media presence. This extra income has been used to build an on-site daycare center for working parents with children under 3. Classify this case.

*This restaurant is located in a city with no compost facilities

• Sustainable

• Viable

• Bearable

• Equitable

A small cotton producer A has changed its traditional agricultural practices to organic ones (low pesticides, season depending, non synthetic fertilizers, etc). Its carbon footprint has decreased, and water footprint has remained the same. However the cotton yield is low and slow. The farmer's income is severely affected. Classify this case

• Sustainable

• Equitable

• Viable

• Bearable

• Environmental care

What should the cotton farmer do:

• Go back to traditional practices to have the same production and income, even if it means using a lot of fertilizers, water and pesticides.

• Increase the price of its cotton to make up for the loss in production and continue with cleaner practices that avoid environmental damage

• Nothing and feel contempt in that the practice is eco-friendly

• Look for alternatives in non-organic agricultural practices that decrease the carbon and water footprint like GMO seeds

A foreign paintings industry will build a new factory in a very poor area in Veracruz, this means the creation of many new jobs, infrastructure (services, transport, housing, schools, etc), however the processes used are not compatible with green chemistry producing a lot of air and water emissions. Classify this case

• sustainable

• equitable

• viable

• bearable

• Economic growth