These days, almost every person uses the net for gathering information, because you can find information easily. There are a lot of websites where you can find whatever information you want. Among those sites, Wikipedia is one of the famous sites, because “Wikipedia is an encyclopedia complied by the voluntary contributions of hundreds of writers and editors”. And also “Anyone can write an article and post it to the Wikipedia” (Lengel, 2006 para. 6). However some people do not believe Wikipedia, because sometimes there is wrong information.
There might be wrong information, but Wikipedia is a very useful website. Even if there is some wrong infomaion, I strongly agree that Wikipedia is necessary for our lives.
First, if you use Wikipedia, you can get information easily. Byers said, “Approximately 38 million people visited the English language version of the site in December 2006. Wikipedia is also easy to find; it frequently appears at the top of many Google searches and access is completely free” (2007, para. 3). As he said, it is free and you can access easily. So many people use Wikipedia and Wikipedia has become one of the most famous websites. And also Wikipedia has accepted a lot of counties’ languages, which is another reason people use Wikipedia a lot.
Second, there is no limit to using wikipedia, which means anybody can not only write and post to it but also edit wrong information. So even if someone posts wrong information, anyone can edit that information. Wolverton said, “While encyclopedias and journals are generally authored by scholars and peer reviewed before publication, Wikipedia articles can be written and edited by anyone at anytime, bringing about a debate over the risk of giving those outside academia the power to create and contribute to articles on scholarly subjects. Furthering this, users can add, alter, or remove information” (2007, para. 7). Using Wikipedia is free and you can do whatever you want, but you should not post wrong information on purpose.
Third, Wikipedia has a lot of information from everyone in the world, so it is probably exact. 38 million people use Wikipedia, which is the English version. It means a lot of information is being posted and edited by uncountable people, even at this moment. Of course there is wrong information, because of some bad people. Nobody can defend them, but we can edit it as soon as we can. So it does not really matter whether there is wrong information or not, because it would have been edited perhaps the next day.
In my opinion, in fact I did not know what Wikipedia was before I cam to writing class. But after I have found some information about Wikipedia, I think it is a very good system for every person. I agree that Wikipedia is necessary and really useful. It is free and if you want to write and edit something, you can do that at anytime.
Reference
Byers, M. (2007, March 8). Controversy over use of Wikipedia in academic
papers arrives at Smith. Sophian. Retrieved April 23, 2008, from http://media.www.smithsophian.com/media/storage/paper587/news/2007/03/08/News/Controversy.Over.Use.Of.Wikipedia.In.Academic.Papers.Arrives.At.Smith-2765409.shtml
Lengel, J. (2006, July 2). Authority. Teaching with Technology. Retrieved April
23, 2008, from http://www.powertolearn.com/articles/teaching_with_technology/article.shtml?ID=12
Wolverton, J. (2007, Jan 22). Wikipedia Wisdom. Valley Vanguard. Retrieved
April 23, 2008, from http://www.svsu.edu/clubs/vanguard/stories/1141
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Starbucks cup
I became interested in Starbucks cups after studying green living. The Starbucks cup is not recyclable, but now “Starbucks, the Seattle coffee company, plans to announce Wednesday that will start stocking its store with cups made with 10 percent recycled material” (warner, 2004, para. 2). Starbucks is one of the famous coffee shops, so they use a lot of cups. According to Warner (2004), Starbucks uses an estimated 1.5 billion cups annually. It is incredibly a lot, but they don’t switch to recyclable material, because the cost is too high. Also Warner (2004) said that “The higher cost is one reason that other food companies have not switched to recycled cups” (warner, 2004, para. 7). Some people think it is good to try even 10 percent, but some other people think this is too little. Adewumi (2007) said that if we bring our own mugs it saves about 674,000 pounds of paper. The real problem is people never care about whether the environment is being destroyed or not. Today, nobody thinks how they can protect the environment.
There would be some problems if they tried to switch to recyclable cups, but they didn’t try, because it is expensive, Starbucks cups make a lot of wasting paper and the environment is being destroyed, because of logging lots of trees to make paper cups.
First, I believe that Starbucks earns a lot nowadays as everyone knows, but I don’t understand why they care about money too much to change to recycled cups. I just think negatively, because I believe they don’t care whether the environment is destroyed or not. I mean they just do that because they want to show us that Starbucks is really worried about the environment in a commercial. If they really are worried, they ought to switch more than 10%.
Second, Starbucks uses more than 1.5 billion paper cups annually, and such a large amount of paper becomes garbage now (Anderson, 2006). If they are really eco-friendly, they should find a method to help the environment. Also Starbucks needs to announce that if consumers bring their own mug, it will be cheaper to consumers. Actually that way is the best way to reduce wasting paper and to save money. I think what Starbucks should do is to make price reduced more if consumers bring their own mugs.
Third, paper is made from virgin trees, and virgin trees require too many ways. However, the paper is not recyclable, so we need to keep logging incredible number of trees. As everyone knows, the trees are limited and the most important thing is we cannot live without trees. Nevertheless, Starbucks wastes more than 1.5 billion paper cups a year. In fact, nobody can tell Starbucks to switch, but Starbucks ought to consider about that if they care about the environment strongly.
Some people say that it is really good to try to include even 10% recycled material. However I strongly disagree about that. !0% is too little to make the environment better. It is recyclable actually, but it is not practical. Starbucks said that it was just first step, but they have not taken another step yet. I believe that they just wanted to attract consumers for selling their products.
In conclusion, they do try what other shops don’t, but I think it is just competition, not being worried about the environment. They just want to show people, they are doing so many things for the environment. I didn’t know anything about this before I read this article, so people don’t know what problems Starbucks actually has. Everyone should know and realize, and then they should make them consider the problems they have.
Reference
Adewumi, D. (2007, September 27). Starbucks, local coffee shops’ cups not recyclable. Collegian. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/09/27/starbucks_local_coffee_shops_c.aspx
Anderson, D. (2006, September 19). Creating the eco-cup. CNN. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_achive/2006/10/02/8387528/index.htm
Warner, M. (2004, November 17). Starbucks continues to Greenwash with Weak Environmental Policy. New York Times News Service. Organic Consumers Association. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://www.organicconsumers.org/starbugs/recycle.cfm
There would be some problems if they tried to switch to recyclable cups, but they didn’t try, because it is expensive, Starbucks cups make a lot of wasting paper and the environment is being destroyed, because of logging lots of trees to make paper cups.
First, I believe that Starbucks earns a lot nowadays as everyone knows, but I don’t understand why they care about money too much to change to recycled cups. I just think negatively, because I believe they don’t care whether the environment is destroyed or not. I mean they just do that because they want to show us that Starbucks is really worried about the environment in a commercial. If they really are worried, they ought to switch more than 10%.
Second, Starbucks uses more than 1.5 billion paper cups annually, and such a large amount of paper becomes garbage now (Anderson, 2006). If they are really eco-friendly, they should find a method to help the environment. Also Starbucks needs to announce that if consumers bring their own mug, it will be cheaper to consumers. Actually that way is the best way to reduce wasting paper and to save money. I think what Starbucks should do is to make price reduced more if consumers bring their own mugs.
Third, paper is made from virgin trees, and virgin trees require too many ways. However, the paper is not recyclable, so we need to keep logging incredible number of trees. As everyone knows, the trees are limited and the most important thing is we cannot live without trees. Nevertheless, Starbucks wastes more than 1.5 billion paper cups a year. In fact, nobody can tell Starbucks to switch, but Starbucks ought to consider about that if they care about the environment strongly.
Some people say that it is really good to try to include even 10% recycled material. However I strongly disagree about that. !0% is too little to make the environment better. It is recyclable actually, but it is not practical. Starbucks said that it was just first step, but they have not taken another step yet. I believe that they just wanted to attract consumers for selling their products.
In conclusion, they do try what other shops don’t, but I think it is just competition, not being worried about the environment. They just want to show people, they are doing so many things for the environment. I didn’t know anything about this before I read this article, so people don’t know what problems Starbucks actually has. Everyone should know and realize, and then they should make them consider the problems they have.
Reference
Adewumi, D. (2007, September 27). Starbucks, local coffee shops’ cups not recyclable. Collegian. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/09/27/starbucks_local_coffee_shops_c.aspx
Anderson, D. (2006, September 19). Creating the eco-cup. CNN. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_achive/2006/10/02/8387528/index.htm
Warner, M. (2004, November 17). Starbucks continues to Greenwash with Weak Environmental Policy. New York Times News Service. Organic Consumers Association. Retrieved on April 16, 2008, from http://www.organicconsumers.org/starbugs/recycle.cfm
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Starbucks' cup
In David Adewumi's (2007) article, “Starbucks, local coffee shops' cups not recyclable,” he explains that Starbucks' cups are not recyclable. Nowadays we waste a lot of paper cups that are not able to recycle. The author says Starbucks customers save about 674,000 pounds if they bring their own mug. There are fully recyclable cups that are made from corn, but if Starbucks uses that cup, the price will go up, because the cups are expensive in fact. Starbucks goes through between 2 and 3 billion paper cups a year. And its cups boast 10% post-consumer recycled fiber and its sleeves are 60%. Those cups can be possible to recycle, but it is not practical actually. However Starbucks is for the first time using 10% recycled material, it is really good even if it is only 10%, because other coffee shops don't even try or even know whether they use recycled cups.
I know they try to be a good company, but I think they can try harder than what they are doing. Actually they can try to use more than 10%, they can make their price much lower if customers bring their own mug, and if it is hard to use more than 10% recycled material, they can switch to recycled cups that are made from corn.
First, I think everyone knows that 10% is too low to make the environment better. I don’t understand why just 10% material is used, because if they really think about how serious pollution is because of non-recycled cup, they would improve that. If I were CEO, I would use at least 50% recycled material. It wouldn’t make the environment better, but it wouldn’t make it worse than now.
Second, I heard that if I bring my own mug, the price goes down a little bit. It is really good to do that, but normally almost nobody does it, because the price goes down just a little bit. So I think they should make the price down more than now, or just prepare mugs for drinking inside the shop. I think it is the best way to reduce the waste of paper cups.
Third, in this article, it explained about cups that are made from corn shortly. The author says the cup can be recycled, but it is high cost. In my opinion, they have enough money to change to that cup. But I don’t know why they don’t change and they still use only the cup that includes just 10% recycled material. There are lots of Starbucks shops in every country, so their income might be incredibly a lot. But they still use paper and they pretend that they are really worried about the environment.
In conclusion, they do try what other shops don’t, but I think it is just competition, not being worried about the environment. They just want to show people, they are doing so many things for the environment. I didn’t know anything about this before I read this article, so people don’t know what problems Starbucks actually has. Everyone should know and realize, and then they should make them consider the problems they have.
Reference
Adewumi, D. (2007, September 27). Starbucks, local coffee shops’ cups not recyclable. Collegian. Portland State University. Retrieved on March 31, 2008, from http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/09/27/starbucks_local_coffee_shops_c.aspx
I know they try to be a good company, but I think they can try harder than what they are doing. Actually they can try to use more than 10%, they can make their price much lower if customers bring their own mug, and if it is hard to use more than 10% recycled material, they can switch to recycled cups that are made from corn.
First, I think everyone knows that 10% is too low to make the environment better. I don’t understand why just 10% material is used, because if they really think about how serious pollution is because of non-recycled cup, they would improve that. If I were CEO, I would use at least 50% recycled material. It wouldn’t make the environment better, but it wouldn’t make it worse than now.
Second, I heard that if I bring my own mug, the price goes down a little bit. It is really good to do that, but normally almost nobody does it, because the price goes down just a little bit. So I think they should make the price down more than now, or just prepare mugs for drinking inside the shop. I think it is the best way to reduce the waste of paper cups.
Third, in this article, it explained about cups that are made from corn shortly. The author says the cup can be recycled, but it is high cost. In my opinion, they have enough money to change to that cup. But I don’t know why they don’t change and they still use only the cup that includes just 10% recycled material. There are lots of Starbucks shops in every country, so their income might be incredibly a lot. But they still use paper and they pretend that they are really worried about the environment.
In conclusion, they do try what other shops don’t, but I think it is just competition, not being worried about the environment. They just want to show people, they are doing so many things for the environment. I didn’t know anything about this before I read this article, so people don’t know what problems Starbucks actually has. Everyone should know and realize, and then they should make them consider the problems they have.
Reference
Adewumi, D. (2007, September 27). Starbucks, local coffee shops’ cups not recyclable. Collegian. Portland State University. Retrieved on March 31, 2008, from http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/09/27/starbucks_local_coffee_shops_c.aspx
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