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2/27/2014

Use and explore the link above. Find 5 products that you use or buy and find their ratings.
For each of your 5 products:
        *list their rating for health, environment and society.
        * list their certifications and listings
Figure out if you want to keep your product for How Its Made or if you want to research a new one. Find your product on this guide and research it.

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Working for a Living

2/24/2014

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GQ.......
Step 1:
1. Take a look at all the tags on the clothes that you are wearing. Find out where they are made. Make a list for your pants and your shirt, if your wearing a jacket etc.
2. Discuss with your group mates.
Step 2:
3. What is minimum wage in the United States? What is their salary for a year if someone working minimum wage works 40 hours a week?
4. Now look up the minimum wage in your countries listed for your articles of clothing. Calculate their salary for a year.
5. For HW your job is to find out what your parents make a year combined and then you will compare it to the salary of a person making minimum wage in the US and a person's minimum wage in your countries that you research.

minimum wages by country

China blue

Step 3
1. Click on the link for China Blue. Click on the Film and read the article. Then watch the three videos.
2. List and explain 4 things that you found shocking.
Step 4
1. Find our where your Jeans come from. Click on the Blue Jean Clothing Business and select a Brand name of Jeans.
2. List and explain 3 things that you did not already know about these jeans.
3. Is this company sustainable? Why or Why not?
4. Does it change your mind on whether or not you purchase from this brand?

Step 6
1. Read and annotate Working for a Living and as a group complete the You're the boss sheet. Turn into the tray along with steps 1-5 activities.

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The Price Of Gold

2/19/2014

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GQ.... Answer the question over the article The Price of Gold that linked below.

The Price Of Gold questions

no dirty gold.org

Blood Diamonds

Congo's Bloody Coltan

the last mountain: coal; strip mining

Nevada: World's Largest Open Pit Gold Mine.

Papau, New Guinea

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2/18 Sustainability?

2/18/2014

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GQ page 71.....
1. What is sustainability?
2. Do you think that your product would be considered, sustainable?
3. Do you think that people should be given more information to help them make more informed decsions about what to consume?
4. If yes, who do you think should provide that information?

GQ
The real price of Gold
Video
Is It Sustainable? Activity

Chipotle's New Ad

The Price of Gold: Nat Geo

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