1- Checking traffic labels on products;
If you want to make a healthier choice, you should check the colours on packages. There are very good graphics on packages to inform people. If we want to eat a healthy diet, one of the key things we should be doing is trying to cut down on fat (especially saturated fat), salt and added sugars.
You're standing in a supermarket aisle looking at two similar products, trying to decide which to choose. You want to make the healthier choice but, as usual, you're in a hurry. Well, help is at hand. A growing number of supermarkets and food manufacturers are using traffic light colours on the labels of some products to help you make your choice.
2- Using green packaging;
Beside people's health we should think about environment too. This is very important for me. We definetly should think about environment and choose products and companies which use green packaging. Green Packaging specializes in environmentally friendly packaging solutions that protect your product and the environment. All of our products are recycled or recyclable.
Here are just a few of the things that we are doing at the Green Packaging offices (and in our own homes):
Reduce, Recycle, and Re-Use (Everything!)
We use only 100% recycled paper (and we print on BOTH sides)
We have changed to CFL’s (compact fluorescent light bulbs)
We have stopped using disposable plastic water bottles (38 billion of them end up in our landfills annually!)
We have eliminated disposable Styrofoam coffee cups from our offices
We combine short trips and now walk to the post office instead of driving when possible
3-Do not eat at Mc Donalds;
I wached Mc Libel and saw that people dont care about people's health. Their aim is just earn money. Beside this they cut animals while using illegal ways, I mean they are shooting cows! Can they be human????????
It has become apparent that McDonalds does not like the documentary film Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock. (Mc Libel too). No surprise there: the film demonstrates the alarming negative health impact a person experiences from eating McDonalds food (if you can call it that) and consuming soft drinks with practically every meal. The film, once released, will have lots of people wondering about the link between fast food restaurants and chronic disease, especially obesity.
The upcoming distribution of this film is probably one factor in McDonalds' decision to kill their Super Size menu items and start offering healthier meals -- even low-carb burgers, if you can believe that! After watching those films It is impossible to believe for me..
Summary of the film Super Size Me :-)
In the new documentary "Super Size Me," filmmaker Morgan Spurlock eats only McDonald's food for 30 days and documents his rapidly deteriorating health.
The 90-minute movie could cause more people to bring obesity lawsuits against McDonald's Corp., predicts John Banzhaf, a professor at George Washington Law School.
"Absolutely, I'm a bit carried away," said an irate Ken Barun, Ronald McDonald House Charities president and the man in charge of the company's healthy/active lifestyle initiative.
McDonald's is adamant that the nation's obesity problems are complex and the issues rely heavily on what consumers choose to eat.
It's more about personal responsibility," said Cathy Kapica, McDonald's director of worldwide nutrition who described the film she has yet to see as an exercise in binge eating.
4-DESIGN AGAINST WAR!!!
I absolutely believe that with design we can deal with war or an other social subject. Designing is the BEST way to explain feelings or angle of vision. In addition to this you can inform people about social subjects. In my designs I usually like to work on social works like I did before "Family violence". Michael Moore directed many films to inform people, Jonathan Barnbrook designed many posters about Bush, of course there will be a group of people who is against you but this is graphic design. A designer should deal with these. And this is designers social responsibility. Isn't it?
5- Take a second look at the thousands of words we see every day
Loll! Take a second look at Helvetica! My favorite type face is every ones favorite. I really didn't realize before lots of branding, way findings, shops, markets etc. use Helvetica. I have just met the creator of my type face with the film Helvetica. I use to love Helvetica, now it is more attractive for me. I just started to check the typos while I am walking in the street and when i see Helvetica I feel like I saw a well known, famous person. They did a film for Helvetica! Adorable, cool, lovely, it is my favorite, my type face, makes me happy!
let me share some photos with you :)
6- Some countries never fool people with ads such they fool people in my country
"Hrrrrr!!! What is this f***ing machine?? Look at the pictures on the product box! It shows before and after. Yeah the picture they put for before seems fearful and the picture they put for after seems wonderful!" Yes this is a reality in my country that you can not demand justice. But i just realized that in the U.K fooling people makes big trouble for companies.
7- We are the ones that can minimize the carbon footprint
Footprint is a measure of our direct emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels including domestic energy consumption and transportation. Cars and planes that we use are harming us. We use electricity, gas, oil.. Think that you minimize a bit and think that there are millions of people, if every one minimize a bit there will be a huge profit again for us!
List of 10 Steps that I learned to Minimize Your Carbon Footprint;
Tip # 1
Get on Your Bike!
* For every mile you ride your bike instead of driving a car, you avoid the production of about one pound of carbon dioxide.
Tip # 2
Save Water with Powder Detergents
* Switch from liquid detergents to powders. Laundry liquids are mostly water (approx. 80%). It costs energy and packaging to bring this water to the consumer.
Tip # 3
Save a Tree, or Two or Three
* Get tough on tissues. If every household in the U.S. replaced one box of 85 sheet virgin fiber facial tissues with 100% recycled ones, we could save: 87,700 trees, 226,500 cubic feet of landfill space ( equal to 330 full garbage trucks), 31 million gallons of water (Annual supply for 240 families of four), and avoid 5,300 pounds of pollution! Buy only recycled paper products for your office, bathroom and kitchen.
Tip # 4
Check Your Water Heater
* Keep your water heater thermostat no higher than 120°F. Save 550 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $30 per year. Talk to your building or condo manager to upgrade the efficiency of the boiler in your building to magnify the savings.
Tip # 5
Change Your Light Bulbs
* Replace 3 frequently used light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. This will save approximately 300 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $60 per year.
Tip #6
Muscle Mow Your Lawn
* Mowing for an hour with a gasoline- powered lawn mower can produce as much air pollution as a 350-mile drive in a car. Consider this alternative which emits nothing other than clippings and burns calories too: push a lightweight reel mower.
Tip #7
Change Your Thermostat
* Conserve fuel by turning down the heat at night and while you are away from your home — or install a programmable thermostat. Setting the airconditioning thermostat in your building to 76 degrees in the summer will dramatically reduce your electricity bill and you'll do your bit to save energy and the environment.
Tip # 8
Reduce Garbage
* Buy products with less packaging and recycle paper, plastic and glass. You can save around 1,000 lbs. of carbon dioxide per year by reducing, reusing and recycling.
Tip # 9
Use Recycled Paper
* According to the EPA, from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day, household waste increases by more than 25 percent due to holiday gift-giving. When wrapping gifts, remember to recycle and reuse. Also whenever possible use 100% post-consumer recycled paper when printing and save approximately 5 lbs. of carbon dioxide per ream of paper.
Tip # 10
Fill Your Dishwasher
* Run your dishwasher only with a full load. Save approximately 100 lbs. of carbon dioxide and $40 per year.
8-Nike has developed a considered response, supported by corporate website reporting. (Did Nike payed them? haha :) may be..)
As every body knows Nike was taking small children to work with them cheaper and many people were against Nike (as me) because they make small children work for them, while searching about Companies Social Responsibilities I just find some information about Nike's social responsibilities. It now has a well developed focus for its corporate responsibility on improving conditions in contracted factories, aiming for carbon neutrality, and making sports available to young people across the world. The criticism continues, however.
"Who works in these factories?
The Global Alliance report on the factories in Indonesia gave the following workforce profile: 58% of them are young adults between 20 and 24 years old, and 83% are women. Nearly half of these workers have completed senior high school. Few have work-related skills when they arrive at the factory. 95% of the workers in the nine participating factories have received pay or wage increases in the last year, consistent with government minimum wage increases, and with small exceptions the bases wages in these factories are above the regions minimum wage – although critics would observe that doesn’t add up to a great deal."
Does anyone support Nike?
The Global Alliance was quite complimentary. It said "Upon due consideration, members of the Operating Council unanimously expressed their judgement that upon learning of the alleged violations surfaced through the Global Alliance assessment process, that Nike had acted in good faith, and developed a serious and reasonable remediation plan." (??? developed a serious plan??)
The only thing that I can say do not believe every thing search and find out for your self..
9- America warning, global worming
Yes the global warming and its supporter U.S.A.. I knew about global warming but I just realized that usa is the most supporter of this climate change and you can see the film Global Warning. The america citizens know that they take a big part of the danger. I want to share the information that I found about global warming;
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION AND READ ALL OF THEM
Global Warming:
1-The US Contribution in FiguresThe United States constitutes 4 per cent of the world population
2-It is responsible for a quarter of all carbon dioxide emissions - an average of 40,000 pounds of carbon dioxide is released by each US citizen every year - the highest of any country in the world, and more than China, India and Japan combined
3-Americans use 50 million tons of paper annually - consuming more than 850 million trees
4-There are more than 200 million cars and light trucks on american roads
5 According to the Federal Department of Transportation, they use over 200 million gallons of petrol a day
5-Motor vehicles account for 56 per cent of all air pollution in The United States
6-A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2002 concluded that people living in the most heavily polluted metropolitan areas have a 12 per cent increased risk of dying of lung cancer than people in the least polluted areas
32 of the 50 busiest US airports currently have plans to expand operations
7-Every year US industries release at least 2.4 billion pounds of chemicals into the atmosphere
8-Despite having just 2 per cent of known oil reserves, the US consumes 25 per cent of the world's oil production
9-16 per cent of world oil production goes into american cars alone.
10-Approximately 160 million people living in 32 US states live in regions with smog and soot levels considered dangerous to health
11-The new clear air interstate rule aims to cut sulphur dioxide by 73 per cent and nitrogen oxide by 61 per cent in the next 10 years
12-Around 50 million new cars roll off US assembly lines each year
There are already more than 20 million four-wheel-drive vehicles on US roads
13-More than 1.5 million gallons of oil were spilled into US waters in 2000 alone
14-Only 1 per cent of american travel is on public transport, an eighth of that in the UK and an eighteenth of that in Japan
15-As much as 5.99 tons of carbon dioxide is emitted per American per year, compared with 0.31 tons per Indian or 0.05 tons per Bangladeshi.
16-The US had 16 major oil spills between 1976 and 1989, whereas France suffered six and the UK five
17-The average american produces 864kg of municipal waste per year, almost three times the quantity of rubbish produced annually by an Italian
10-The last thing that I learned from this course is searching is not limited with internet because I use to search only websites. This term I did a change and I am really happy with this change, I believe this course enlarged my vision. I searched books, articles and lots of magazines for corporate responsibility, green packaging, ads etc. when I couldnt find enaugh information from network :-) (when i couldnt find information it made me crazy and curious by this way I learned how to make research) So this module helped me for my design project b course, I really did a deep search however I know too much things about dogs..Thanks for this course and thanks to my course leader :P
