Internship at NIKE.

Nike is a very good place to work. People there are mostly really friendly. Their dressings for work are very casual. Shirley, the director of finance and administration is the person who we interview with, and got accepted. She is a really nice person, looking after us like mother and sons! John is the mentor I work with. He is like the director of the footwear-testing laboratory. Judy taught me all the materials that were use in shoes manufacture. Finny taught me how to type a data entry report, which is most likely what I will be doing through out the year. The other four cool and humorous ladies teach me how to do footwear-testing all the time. Betty is Angus’ mentor. She was also the lady who took us to the factory last time. I think that was the most powerful experience I had. The shoes manufacturing process actually looks very complicated, and it takes a lot of workers to make a pair of shoes. A worker might have to do the same step for years, such as packaging the shoes. It has been a tiring month, but I think the experiences I have are valuable.

Foxies In The Room

After I watched this movie, I was really shocked by the facts. I have heard lots of companies collapse, and people can not get their money back. But, I did not know that there are these kinds of things happened behind each financial collapsed company. Enron- The smartest Guys in the Room, This movie really shows the greed and hubris of people. One same moral between Enron’s movie and Ishmael is that people eventually hurt themselves by getting more and more power. Peter Parker’s uncle, the main character from Spider-man, Ben once told him: "With great power, comes great responsibility." As Enron got more and more power, they did not handle well with responsibility and ethics. Those managers and CEOs do not care the others at all. This ties back to the book Ishmael, the competition and survival fits ideas by human. People want to be at the top to take control of everything. I think once people got on the top, they would do whatever they can keep themselves away from falling. One of the parts from the movie that really shocks me was the psychological test where one person is acting to be electrified and another person is adding up the voltage without knowing it is fake. This just shows that Enron’s Company already lost their ethics when they were lying to people. The founder of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling is serving a 24-year, 4-month prison with the conviction in 2006 of many crimes as the financial collapse of Enron. Kenneth Lay is dead by the heart attack in July 5, 2006, just about three and a half months before sentence. I think one of the misinterpretations they had which let to their financial collapse is- “Market will correct itself.” They are too arrogant and over confident with curability they might have. They did not want ask people for, because they feel it might look bad. Enron cares too much about the look. They did not want to be frank, because they think it might damage their reputation, even though it is just temporally. One thing I really think all the company should follow is King Car Company. It is a Taiwanese drink company. When the contaminate milk powder events exposed in China, King Car Company was the first one who acclaim that they imported milk powder from China, so they took back every milk powder products they sold, and apologize to the people. Now, the consumers would more likely to buy their products, because they are really honest and sincere, and they stopped using the contaminated milk powder. They might loose some money and reputation, but these are just temporally; they will be really successful in the future. Honesty is the most important thing in corporation!

William McDonough and Mr. Hawken are friends.

We read an article from last class, The Opportunity of Insignificance,which was written by Hawken from his book. It explains what are the six things that build up the sustainable businesses, I think one of factors relates to the Tedtalk which William McDonough gave is "Create objects of durability and long-term utility whose ultimate use or disposition will not be harmful to future generations."
In the begining of his speech, he askes "how can we secure local society, creat world peace and save the environment?" Later on, he thinks that, in order to do this, people have to design green architectures, and we still have growth, free energy from sunlight, and metabolism. He thought of a very amazing idea, building the New Chinese City, which with green roofs that people can farm on the roof, fresh water and fresh air. This new city will be built for 400 million people in 12 years. It is very good. This city will have the durability and long-term utility for farming and will not harm the future generation and enviroment.
"Our goal is a delightfully diverse, safe, healthy and just world, with clean air, water, soil and power- economically, equitably, ecologically and elegantly enjoyed." - William M

Spanish Song Reflection (2paragraghs=10 sentences)

Yo escribi cuatro frases y cambie los líricos. Arregle los liricos. Yo escribi la canción en cuatro dias. Yo creo que el tiempo era muy corto. El sketch era mi idea.

Me gustan los compañeros con quien yo trabaje. Yo toqué el piano. Kevin toco la guitarra. Cante la canción. Coco nos ayudo con la canción. Me gusta la clase de español y profesora Fortune!!!

Waste Not Blog

An article, called Waste Not, which from the book Natural Capitalism, talks about how much natural resources people are using unnecessarily, such as Lithium for soft drink cans. It also talks about how many high educated people do underemployed jobs, such as doctor drives taxi, and how much money people are spending, such as car accidents charge health care costs, people can not go to their jobs, property damage, and judicial service costs. Human civilization is growing with a wasting system. "People are using too many resources to make too few people more productive", a quote from the book Natural Capitalism implies how people are wasting resources. These will not only damage the environment, but also decline the global economics effect.
I think there are lots of ways to connect the concepts of this article to my senior project- building a green business model. For example, I will trace back to all the products that I am going to sell, in order to make sure that there are no extra resources wasted during manufacture. I also have to be aware of not using any of the cheap labors. I will have to confirm that everything is made in Taiwan, because Taiwan's Labor Bureau has a better policy to avoid labors get low-paid. In the end, we will please people who have their own unique strength to do what they can do, such as Jim is good at making statistic, so we will ask him to help us account the money, and Eugene is good at drawing, so we will ask him to help us design some shirts. Everyone has their own special talents, so we can help them to let other people hear their voice. We are going to use the least nature resources to make the best and most efficient green business model!

It's Business!

The inqury question I want to be able to answer over the year is "Can a business model be not harmful for the enviroments?". I think as the greenhouse effect gets worse and worse, business people should be the first group of people to stand out and resist the global warming. Business men have like the strongest power in the world; most of the richest people are business men. They have the most money, lands, and rights, then why not spend some to help the earth? Have those rich people ever think about how and why the air has been polluted when they are smoking a 50 USD cigar? I think greed for money is one of the human nature. People always want more and more money, and it never satisfies themself. As people gain money, they forgot about other things which revolve around them, such as enviroments and ethics. So, I want to build a business model that does not harm the enviroments, and still be ethical. I am going to plant trees or small plants depends how much carbon dioxide I made while runing a business. If my model really runs, I will donate all the profits that I make to the World Vision Organization, save some people who are suffering.

Silicon Lambs Blog

After I read the article about health and environmental impacts at Taiwan's Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, I realized that there is dark side behind every big industrial companies. Working in Science park is the job that a lot of the people want. Before science park was built, Hsinchu was just a place with lots of cemetery. I remember once my teacher told me why choose Hsinchu City to build Science Park, was because Hsinchu was the only city that has two of the best universities in Asia. After the Science Park was built, the economy starts rising up rapidly, but also the pollution as well. Before Hsinchu Gieant, one of the biggest marts in taiwan, was built, that was a place where Science Park dumped most of the heavy metal wasteproducts. I used to live in Hsinchu Science Park. This article makes me think of where I used to live. I saw the orange water down in the ditch, or sometimes green water with bubbles on top. They also dumped these chemicals in to the rivers; these also caused the oysters were seriously polluted. Taiwan's electricity generating, steel-making, and plastic producing are companies they emit most of the carbondioxide. Hsinchu Science Park makes a lot of people become rich in a few years, but the pollution problems it makes will take decades to be solved. I have research that Taichung's Science Park is also having more contamination as Hsinchu. I think this really will contaminate Taiwan's air, water, and soil. These things really shock me, I think I would like to become a business man or a electronic engineer, helping to solve the problems when I grow up. I want to be able to change something in Science Park. One another thing, I really wonder that does become a rich must to pollute the Earth? May be, I will find this out when I grow up, if it was true, I will prove it wrong! Yes, "I" Can!!