Essays on Pli

Literature Review

Impact Mitigation

Intelligent locomotive bumper designs have been touted as possible life-savers for pedestrians. Paden, Kelly, Hines, Botham and Simms explored the feasibility of a life-saving locomotive bumper (103). There were several motivations behind their paper. Perhaps the most important one was the high number of pedestrians that were killed every year in train impacts. Between the years 2007 and 2012, about 10,950 non-suicide deaths were attributed to train impact on humans. Including suicide deaths on railroads, 28,800 pedestrians were killed during that 6-year period. Also, Paden et al., noted that passenger trains served densely populated areas ( ...

Business Model & Environmental Crisis

Patagonia adopts a business model based on three key pillars: (1) Environment Stewardship, (2) Management By Absence, and (3) Value-Based Choice of Partners (Reinhardt, Casadesus-Masanell and Kim). By Environment Stewardship is meant company's commitment to minimize impact of company's business on environment. Examples are numerous including removing anti-odor chemicals from products in 1998, switching to manufacturing all cotton products from organically produced cotton in 1996 in spite of increased costs and signing in 2007 Bluesign Technologies, standard used to appraise environmental impact of dye and finish chemicals (Reinhardt, Casadesus-Masanell and Kim). If anything, CEO Casey Sheahan's statement is central ...