Managing the Natural Environment

Buzz words abound in business especially when it involves how management handles change. One of the more current popular terms in the first decade of the 21st century is sustainability.This word is linked with a variety of other words such as:

Business results
Consulting
Environment
Green business
Improving and streamlining business operations
Initiatives
Plan
Practices in business
Services
Solutions

Reading many articles on sustainability management, there is a strong emphasis on the environment specific to the 3 Rs

Reduce
Recycle
Reuse

This buzz word has added two other Rs that being Rethink and Redesign.

Yet sustainability is not just about the environment, but rather looks to how resources are most efficiently and effectively utilized within any organization. This rethinking suggests that two additional elements present in any organization that need to be included when thinking about how to best leverage limited resources so that they will not be wasted.

People
Processes (Operations)

When management expands the sustainability definition by including these two other elements or components, this rethinking helps to create a more natural alignment between the 5 areas as defined by Galbraith in his Five Star Model and truly starts an innovative process of redesign:

Strategy
Structure
Processes
Incentive
People

From the earlier work of pioneers such as Paul Hawken, Amory and Hunter Lovins, natural capitalism is far easier to embrace when looking at all three elements of people, processes and environment instead at just the last one. Natural capitalism is concerned about:

Dramatically increasing productivity by better use of existing resources

Shifting to natural products or more biologically inspired thus reducing waste and toxic refuse

Moving to a business model emphasizing “service and flow” through performance, quality and utility instead of just selling a product

Reinvesting in natural capital through sustaining, restoring and expanding the flows of natural capital

Organizations do not function in a vacuum and the operations are interdependent. People (internal customers or human capital) may work in one department, but their efforts usually transcend into other departments or business operations. By creating awareness and uniting the entire workforce to be more efficient and effective regarding the use of existing resources can only help the bottom line.

Change management initiatives can propel any organization to new levels of productivity to profitability provided the executive managers are willing to go beyond the 3Rs and look to rethinking and redesign as they look to embrace sustainable practices in business. By taking this action, sustainability plans will expand beyond the environment and will develop responsible leaders who are stewards of their worlds both personally and professionally.

Going on a cycle of antibiotics has usually been included in a good acne remedy routine. Nevertheless, the growing concerns on the side effects of continuous use of antibiotics have put an emphasis on alternative healing techniques or natural acne cures.

For a long time, antibiotics have been the only answer to ridding of the annoying symptoms and stopping further breakouts of acne. Their aggressive anti-acne action was deemed useful in handling the general causes of acne, such as acne promoting bacteria build-up, excessive sebum on the skin and clogged pores. The antibiotics used alleviated symptoms by lessening the body’s inflammatory reaction, which lessens the focus of free fatty acids in the sebum.

Sebum is the natural oil released by the sebaceous glands on the skin and acne-causing bacteria generally flourish on sebum and dead skin cells. For small to large cases of acne, different types of antibiotics were tried to give instant and effective relief. Nonetheless, the constant and ongoing use of antibiotics on acne results in side effects that leads from small to grave dangers to health. When a growing number of people that have acne are stopping their antibiotics, more and more people are examining the effectiveness and major health advantages of natural acne cures as being the safer and the other answer to obtaining soft, healthy and acne-free skin.

Effectiveness of Antibiotics

There is no doubt that antibiotics work in ridding of acne. Nevertheless, their advantages are extremely limited due to their acne curing make up. In reality any acne-causing bacteria is pretty useless. This is because bacteria are part of the natural environment of the skin so they are present everywhere. Topical antibiotics are not effective in managing breakouts of acne causing bacteria because all the removed bacteria can simply be replaced because of the excess production of natural skin oil from overactive sebaceous glands. Excessive oil in addition to a build up of dead skin cells make for an ideal place for acne causing bacteria. In this case, the effectiveness of antibiotics is slim and antibiotic acne treatment does not provide permanent outcomes because it does not treat the actual cause of the acne formation.

There have been talks on whether or not topical antibiotics are more effective than orally administered antibiotics in treating acne or vice versa. Nonetheless, it is the orally taken antibiotics that lead to more side effects because it eliminates all sorts of bacteria that it encounters, such as the beneficial bacteria that are in the stomach. This in result causes trouble with your insides. Eliminating both beneficial and bad bacteria will certainly disrupt the regular activity of organs and systems that leave you more vulnerable to infections and disorders such as chronic acne.

A landscape designer is someone who has great passion in exploring the beauty of merging art and science together for the uniqueness and its excellent piece of astonishing buildings or land-yards with its finely decorated gardens and natural landscape surroundings. He is responsible to further enhance the beauty of the streets, walkways, play-ground, and also to restore the uniqueness of the natural habitats. This is the end result from an overly-advanced modern technology with many high rise buildings replacing the old habitat such as forest, lake and fountains along the mountains.

The designer’s work can be performed by preparing the design, specifications, and cost estimates for any assigned projects. Landscape architects talent is needed in many types of organizations such as the Government, Universities, Colleges, Hospitals, & many more. Most of their projects are on recreational parks and highways landscaping.

The work of a landscape designer is to make places look beautiful by planning, designing and managing open spaces including both natural and built environments. They work to provide innovative and aesthetically pleasing environments for people to enjoy, whilst ensuring that changes to the natural environment are appropriate, sensitive and sustainable. A landscape designer need to have the ability to assess a site’s potential to meet the client’s specifications as well.

Their work covers diverse projects for both urban and rural, which ranges from designing the layout of parks, gardens and housing estates to city-centre design to improving land affected by mining or motorway construction.

A landscape architect’s job may involve:
o surveying the site and investigating its natural resources and features as well as the wildlife and plants in the area
o using computer-aided design (CAD) packages to turn ideas for the project into plans
o choosing trees, shrubs and plants that will suit the land type and the needs of the site
o making sure there is suitable access to the site for disabled people and other users, for example people with pushchairs
o estimating the costs of constructing the landscape and maintaining it once it is complete
o giving presentations about the project to groups including clients, council committees, local people, and occasionally public enquiries
o once the initial work is kick-off, always remain close visit the site to make sure the designs are being followed and work is running smoothly.

Our society today seems to have an overabundance of skin problems that manifest and continue to become chronic. Our retail stand at a local farmers market in Southeastern Pennsylvania is a focal point for folks who seem to have more of their share of these issues, as we market products that offer natural relief for such conditions.

In many cases, these people have been to medical doctors and have been prescribed varied medications that don’t seem to have worked so well. I recall one man who had eczema so bad on his hands that were raw and bleeding. He said that the medications that had been prescribed to him were not working at all and he was desperate for any kind of relief.

We suggested the application of a natural based salve, containing medicinal turpentine and Liquefied Phenol (also known as carbolic acid, an element used in sterilizing medical instruments) combined in a base of petrolatum, paraffin and cottonseed oil. The phenol sterilizes the area, killing any bacteria present and the paraffin and cottonseed oil coats the area and stops any itching which is a major cause of discomfort with eczema.

The man returned a week later with remarkable results. The affected area had shrunk markedly and his report of relief from the pain and itching was very positive.

While this remedy will not cure the underlying cause of most skin conditions, it will give ongoing relief. The recommended method of treatment of applying the salve before bedtime, then wrapping the area with a bandage or soft cloth, keeps the area apart from the environment so it won’t rub off, thus affording ongoing treatment and continuous healing.

Another example was the man who showed us his hands which were extremely dry and cracked due to the fact that his job required that he sort cardboard pieces all day long. His hands were raw and bleeding in many places. Our suggestion of applying the salve at night, then wearing cotton gloves brought his hands back to a manageable state in about a week.

These conditions are likely the result of diet, heredity, or environmental issues in many cases. If caused by diet, we recommend that people cut down or get off of sugar completely, eat more healthy foods, more green vegetable, etc. It is also good to build up the immune system, increase the B and C vitamin groups, and drink more pure water on a daily basis.