Tropical Salvage is a private manufacturer of unique handcrafted furniture. The company handcrafts furniture primarily from hardwoods that have been salvaged hence the name Tropical salvage , or rediscovered. The company was founded in 1998 by Tim O’Brien taking advantage of the high rate of underemployed Javanese woodworkers (Marshall, Peifer and Ferrigno, 1). These woodworkers, who were highly skilled, coupled with the almost unlimited supply of non-virgin tropical timber from the environs around Indonesia became the foundation of the company. Tropical Salvage is headquartered in Portland, Oregon Mr. O’Brien creatively merged these resources that were available to him for the creation of distinctive furniture. The sale of these handcrafted …show more content…
Tropical Salvage also has an authentically differentiated position in the market. It has the goodwill of the community in which it does its manufacturing, which it cultivated through respectful observance of the local culture of the Javanese people of Indonesia. Additionally, it has an elaborate distribution system that facilitates the movement of its products from the place of manufacture to the warehouses where they are required prior to being sold in the North American market. With regard to corporate social responsibility, Tropical Salvage raises awareness for the conservation of bio-diverse ecosystems (Marshall, Peifer and Ferrigno, 9). To facilitate this, the company has strong ties to various environmentally conscious Non-Governmental Organizations that have brought valuable expertise and credibility to the operations of the …show more content…
An increasing number of people are adopting new lifestyles or making lifestyle changes to support environmental programs. Tropical Salvage products are becoming more popular because of this widespread change.
Technological Factors
Tropical Salvage is essentially a low-tech industry. Most of the production is done by a highly skilled human labor. Technological involvement is limited to aspects that cannot be facilitated via the aforementioned human labor.
Ecological Factors
Due to the nature of its business model, Tropical Salvage has not had any conflicts between its business strategy and the natural environment (Marshall, 186). It uses a variety of strategies in salvaging and may include recovering logs from lakes and rivers, mining entombed trees and demolishing bridges, boats and old buildings. Industry Environment (5-Forces Model)
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As the hurricane has ended, the city of Galveston ended. However in its ending, Galveston created its own beginning. By 1910, it recovered in population and thrived in success. By 1912, the Galveston’s reconstructed wharves and modern cotton compresses handled 4.3 million Bales of cotton. It became the world’s leading cotton port. The city eventually transitioned into a picturesque ocean resort (Lessoff). From destruction, creation can come.
The Government and mining industry is designed to make the public believe that the area that has been destroyed can be regenerated or rehabilitated back to its former state. Although this can be done and trees and other plants are able to grow, the natural ecosystems can not be regrown (Savestraddie.com, 2018). Excessive instream sand-and-gravel mining causes the degradation of rivers. Depletion of sand in the streambed and along coastal areas causes the deepening of rivers and estuaries, and the enlargement of river mouths and coastal inlets. It may also lead to saline-water intrusion from the nearby sea (Environmental Information System, 2013). In addition, although Sibelco states they try to re-establish the original ecosystem, that occupied the island before they begun mining in the area, the ecosystem and plantation will never be the same as it was. With the stopping of sand mining, there will be no further depletion of the vegetation and the ecosystem will be able to grow safely and restore the natural ecosystem, and places that have not been demolished yet, will be safe from destruction from 2019 and onwards. At
Environment - current issues: sewage pollution of Lago de Valencia; oil and urban pollution of Lago de Maracaibo; deforestation; soil degradation; urban and industrial pollution, especially along the Caribbean coast; threat to the rainforest ecosystem from irresponsible mining operations
99 is not 100! Every single can of pop makes a huge difference whether we recycle it or not. Valter, who had spent 26 years collecting recycling materials, shows us the important role he played in the maintaining healthy environment for sea animals and for people of Brazil. Vik Muniz’s self-portrait project can be seen as part of community based art, bringing direct change in to people’s life, and raising awareness to the two most important issue of the time: poverty and recycling materials.
Support action by central and native government, businesses and civil society take advantage of these opportunities (The best recycling programs in US & around the world, 2012)
In Indonesia, 8.828 million hectares of forests have been destroyed (see appendix 2). Around fifty acres of forests are removed every minute, not o...
GreenPalm (2015) states how ‘the removal of acres of rainforest threatens the rich biodiversity’ in the ‘ecosystems’. Highlighting the risks of the cutting of the oil palm trees to produce the palm oil to both the environment and also the organisms which live within the areas, as certain species in the areas of the clearing of land, mainly with the palm oil ‘exported from Indonesia and Malaysia’ according to Say-No-To-Palm-Oil (2015), face possible extinction. There is still however ways in which the production of palm oil can be sustainable to the environment, as palm oil is essential for the use by humans because of the containment of the nutrients and also with the production of foods and
...e reformed to produce more efficient and less harmful means of using resources in the Amazon while also producing new industries to help stimulate these developing countries’ economies.
Most of the Palm Oil trees are farmed and used as an ingredient in an item that is sold for commerce. Currently about half of the products, that people use and buy on a day to day basis, contains the ingredient Palm oil (Rainforest Rescue 1). Palm oil deforestation is a recent environment, and socioeconomic issue that has become increasingly popular in the last few years. The Palm Oil, which is collected,
Conclusion 12 XIII. Bibliography 13 I. Introduction The Custom Woodworking Company (CWC) was founded in 1954 by Ron “Woody” Carpenter. Woody, after an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker, started his own small woodworking business, specializing in furniture manufacturing. Due to the high quality of the craftsmanship, CWC gained a reputation for their high quality and attractively designed furniture.
Cosmetics, soap, chocolate, and frozen meals. These general products all have something in common; they include palm oil, a resource found in oil palm trees located primarily in Indonesia and Malaysia. Palm oil is a valuable resource that is contained in many everyday products. However, the mass consumption of this ingredient caused wide deforestation in wildlife’s natural habitat and is leading to the endangerment of several animal species. Sustainable palm oil is grown and harvested by companies on private land to avoid deforestation and harm to wildlife, so people should consider purchasing products that include sustainable palm oil rather than palm oil taken from natural forests.
Industrial logging is the main cause of forest loss throughout the tropics. It is the starting point of a process leading to the forests' final destruction and substitution by agricultural crops, cattle raising or monoculture tree plantations. These are well known facts supported by more than sufficient evidence.
middle of paper ... ... resources, and improved understanding of environmental implications of harvesting and trade of forest products. The UN Commission on Sustainable Development is another important and effective step towards the rectification of Deforestation. Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s) play an important, but in some cases, inappropriate role in rectifying the problem. NGO’s like Green Peace and the World Wildlife Fund are two such NGO’s.
Borges-Mendez, Ramon. "Sustainable Development and Participatory Practices in Community Forestry: the Case of FUNDECOR in Costa Rica." Local Environment 13.4 (2008): 367-383. Print.
These cause a great deal of damage to the forests because more trees have to be removed again to mine this merchandise. Brazil is once again a prime example of forest destruction. The population of poor shanty towns are being encouraged by the governments to move to the forested area. This once again means the felling of trees. You can work out that only 1 of the forests in the world is being destroyed by humans in so many