Watershed committee

One of the most successful business practices in terms of cooperation between two countries is joint development arrangements. Most of such arrangements fall under one of the three major categories: 1) each state has the authority to license its own nationals to operate within the join zone, with condition for compulsory joint ventures between these licensees; 2)a joint authority with licensing and regulatory powers manages development of the resources on behalf of both states; 3) one of the states controls development of the resources on behalf of both with the other state’s participation limited only to revenue sharing and monitoring (journal of international affairs, 2005, pp. 81)

It would be a very idealistic situation, like saying we need no police since our crime rates are nearly zero. IN that case we would not need an audit department one day assuming every member of staff is ‘honest’ with integrity intact. Why do we need our annual audits had the company been at the best of its practices on every aspect. Likewise most ‘speciality’ departments would be redundant one day, and half the people would lose their jobs since there would be no supervision and monitoring required.

Those eight meetings replaced 52 round-trip airline flights, saving more than $32,000 in travel costs and reducing CO2e emissions by an estimated 26.2 metric tons. In the meantime, Rodgers now considers himself a telepresence tele-evangelist who believes the many benefits offered by the technology clearly outweigh the value of face-to-face meetings in many situations.

Last year, half of Topanga Canyon Earth Day proceeds were donated to Topanga Creek watershed committee. To make room for native species to be planted, some of the proceeds were used to eliminate invasive plants like fountain grass, Castabean, and Cape-Ivy. This year, the organization handed out a brochure with local business listings pertaining to tree maintenance, erosion control, sustainable buildings, brush clearance, and equestrian trails. The brochure also listed information about graywater, an innovation that many people dream about setting up but don’t have the resources--or can’t persuade their landlords--to construct.

The world in which we live is a system in which all elements interrelate and coexist in a harmonious balance of creation and destruction. Nothing exists or functions in isolation. Everything is interconnected and every act affects the future of countless other elements. This concept, also known as systems thinking, is easy to see when observing an ecosystem, especially when the harmony of that ecosystem is disrupted. The extinction or reduction of one species rebounds through the entire food chain, causing havoc on the lives of the rest of the species.