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Reference:

Byrnes, B. (2010, May 4). Argentine ‘Carrotmob’ stick up for green business. CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/05/03/carrotmob.consumer.movement/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In Byrnes Brian’s article, he described that the production of farm, such as organic vegetables, cheese and wine, need to be a good price. Because of this reason, there comes a plan named “Carrotmob”. Carrotmob is a global movement that has been used in many countries. The farmers use the Carrotmob to improve the income, but they also need to spend more cost on the farm production. However, the seller who use mob will get more profit. There are about 55 different cities have Carrotmob now, and all of them are becoming more friendly to environment. In the article, the author also says that Carrotmob may not popular for people who are not rich. Many Latin American cities are still poor, the people who living in there have not a good thinking about green thinking, especially the young people. So the Carrotmob cannot be popular in the whole world now. At the end of the article, a shopkeeper who sells who sells marinated organic olives says that he earn 50% more money than before, and the author says Carrotmob becomes a big business.

Reaction:

The article looks like to recommend the Carrotmob to the world. Like other new high technology invention, Carrotmob cannot be accepted quickly. The good news is that some places do this business well. I think people could like it, because there are more and more people have enough money to live, and they become to spend their money to keep them to be health, so that they will buy the Carrotmob things. I believe that Carrotmob is good for environment too, because it needs a good environment to make the production well and nature. In another word, they can’t use agricultural chemicals or chemical fertilizer. Therefore, agricultural pollution problem can be a good solution. So, I think we young people should study the knowledge about green thinking, and we also should keep using Carrotmob productions.

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Reference:

Chang, E. (2010, April 28). China’s famed Pearl River under denim threat. CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/26/china.denim.water.pollution/index.html?iref=allsearch

Summary:

In the article, it says the pollution of the Pearl River is very hard. People who live on the bank of the river worry about their life. They say that they could swimming and catch big fishes in the river before, but now, the water has turned dark and black. The author says the Pearl River is no longer used as a normal river, because it has too much trash or dead animal bodies in the river, and it continued for many years. That is because the bank of the Pearl River is a very famous economic status in the southern of China, and there are many companies in there. Among the companies, the blue jean capital company is the most polluting one, and it includes many famous brands in the world. The author says that people buy the jeans for wearing, but they don’t know the jeans may be made by poison. The author also says the satellite images show the evidence of the jean’s companies making a lot of trash. The reason of the pollution is the process of making jeans requires coloration, and it makes a few heavy metal elements in the sewage, so the waste water falls into the river with the tubes. However, the pollution causes many kinds of illness and health problems.

Reaction:

I agree with the author about the pollution of making clothes being very bad for rivers. In my hometown, there was a large river too, and it was very beautiful. After the development of economic, the status of the river becomes bad, many fishes died, the color of the water is more dark and mixed than before.