Age Group:
Senior Cycle
Themes:
- Ethical Production and Consumption/
- sustainability/
Subjects:
- Business Studies/
Event Date
Event Time
Location
Ethics and Sustainability in Business
Worldwise Global Schools (WWGS) can support teaching and learning in the Senior Cycle Business classroom. WWGS are working with Oide to assist teachers with the cross-cutting theme of ethics and sustainability.
Workshop Resources
Relevant Education Toolkits
- Find resources on the Sustainable Development Goals and other themes on our website.
- Globalisation: The Youth and The Truth,youth.ie
- How the World Works 3, Financial Justice Ireland
- Just Tax , Financial Justice Ireland
- The Business of Food, Trocaire
- Business Studies and Development, Proudly Made in Africa
- Not Business as Usual, Financial Justice Ireland
- Accounting for Justice, Financial Justice Ireland
Videos
- It’s time to tackle tax havens
- Why Do we need Trade Justice
- Story of Electronics
- The Impossible Hamster
Documents and Websites
- Senior Cycle Business specification here.
- Wellbeing Economy Alliance paper ‘Wellbeing Business’
- Right to Repair Europe
- The Rediscovery Centre
- Doughnut Economics
- Wellbeing Economy Alliance
- Jason Hickel Ecological Economist
- The New Internationalist magazine e.g. Climate Capitalism edition
- Partners for a New Economy
Enterprises employing Ethics and Sustainability
- Ethical Origin are a chocolate and coffee business that works between Columbia and Ireland-all the profits go to the communities in Columbia
Moyee coffee roasts and packages coffee in Ethiopia where the beans are grown this takes Fairtrade to another level where the communities are just getting a better price for their raw material. - Fairphone: Fairphone goes straight to the source to make sure they’re creating positive change. The materials cobalt copper etc are fair, recycled, and responsibly mined materials in our phones and products—to make mines and recycling sites safer, to benefit communities and protect children, and to safeguard nature. But this is not the only feature it’s fixable and is made to be able to repair yourself.
- Foodcloud: FoodCloud tackles climate change and food insecurity by connecting businesses that have surplus food to communities that can use it.