我的环境保护看法

(This is a Chinese post for those of you that can read Chinese. I know there are mistakes. I actually made a few changes on paper but remember that I've only been study Chinese for two years.)

我的保护环境看法很简单。我只觉得我需要提高我们保护环境能力。让我解释。

拿中国来说，现在很多外国公司进入中国的市场。很多公司用中国的工厂生产产品。这对中国的环境不好。 中国的污染越来越厉害，由此可见中国公司和中国政府都觉得发展是最重要目的。 还有，越是中国发展越是中国人的生活水平提高。中国的政府预计明年有更多汽车。他们的问题会增加了。中国政府和经济领导人并非忽视中国的环境问题。

这个问题并不是只中国的。每个国家必须处理这个问题。 最大城市有最厉害的污染问题和资源不足。为什么？很大的城市有太多了汽车。 大城市从来有贫富差距。富人可以随意决定用多少资源，所以这些富人浪费太多了资源。 这些城市有过大污染。比如洛杉矶，有这么多的汽车。 它们的空气非常不好。每个家庭有一些汽车。因为洛杉矶没有够的水需要盖一个人造的河流。这个河流从旧金山南流洛杉矶。洛杉矶还有不太多了树林。它们的气候很热。还有洛杉矶位于在一个山谷。它们的气候还有相当于沙漠一样，所以下雨很小。这两个原因是为什么污染不能散开。 洛杉矶是一个极端的例子，但是想像如果每个城市相当于洛杉矶一样。我会跳楼！

我觉得环境保护是每个人的义务。但是我觉得公司需要带路保护环境。保护环境是特别富人的义务。然后是社会的。然而很多公司不在乎保护环境。他们只受到最高的利润。社会怎么控制几个公司不在乎？有一些方法。

第一个方法，政府需要创造更严格立法，增加规定。现在公司的生产有太大自由。如果一个公司有污染，政府需要让它们付更多了税。如果税不够，政府需要关机这个公司。

第二个方法，赞美公司谁知道怎么用企业社会责任（CSR）。如果一个公司的生产法是很好的，给他们一些礼物，减肥他们的税，增加他们的自由，给他们政府的项目，什么的。

第三个方法，政府需要领导这个保护环境革命，这个绿色革命。现在世界经济系统不太好。投资绿色科技可以增加就业。还有这个绿色科技是长远而言便宜的。至少推销绿色科技的公司。因为美国是世界的最有钱的国家第一，美国的政府必须领导这个革命。

所以我们都可以看出来污染的问题太厉害。我们需要用更多努力保护环境。 普通人可以开始保护环境。人需要切忌塑料包，坐公共交通，不浪费资源，和想想我们的世界。

My Internship in Shanghai - Sherpa's

When people ask me what I want to do for my career in the future, I have trouble defining exactly what type of “work” I would do. I skate around the issue by saying things like, “I really like people” or “I can see myself in marketing because I have creative thoughts.” But in reality there is always one thing on my mind – starting a business. I think it’s the adventurous part of me that just revels in the idea of being an entrepreneur. Or maybe it’s the artistic side of me that just wants to create something. Or perhaps it is the logical side of me, after all most of the richest people in the world are business owners. Most likely, I think it’s the freedom that lures me to being an entrepreneur. There are no boundaries, and perhaps that’s what scares most people away.

In Shanghai this semester, I have been working directly with an American entrepreneur, Mark, who founded a company called Sherpa’s. Mark is a super down-to-earth chill boss. He moved to Shanghai about 10 years ago because the girl he loved got moved there for work. After working a few different jobs, including teaching English, Mark went to business school at one of the only English MBA programs in China. His MBA project was to write up a full business plan start to finish. Sherpa’s was his business plan. Basically, Mark saw that there are a lot of food delivery options in Shanghai, but very few for good Western food restaurants. As a busy foreigner, he and his wife were never in the mood for cooking and delivery options were limited to cheap Chinese food. That’s were Sherpa’s comes in. Sherpa’s filled this void by providing a bilingual call center service, a collection of Western restaurants and a team of couriers with scooters. Now Sherpa’s a multimillion dollar business and has expanded successful to Suzhou, Hangzhou, and working on Beijing.

This semester, I have gotten to ask questions about running a business in China and really pick his brain on various topics. For example, I asked Mark if he had to work with the government at all to make his business run smoothly. His answer? Nah. It’s more of a threat than anything else. There are so many rules in China that you literally cannot run a business without the breaking the law. The government has this established on purpose. They aren’t going to crack down on Mark’s business unless he gives them reason to. But if the government ever need dirt on him, it’s always there. This is a normal business practice. I've heard the Chinese government described as a sleeping anaconda in a chandelier. It’s obviously there, it’s obviously dangerous, and it is obviously doing a bad job of making people think it’s blending with the backdrop. However, it’s sleeping nonetheless and does not plan to attack unless it need be. (My program director has said that the Chinese government is a very old, lazy sleeping anaconda. lol)

Overall, my internship at Sherpa's is complete. I learned a great deal from my mentor and had a great time working in a few different roles. My CSR (Customer Service Representative) project was the largest of all my projects. It consisted of listening to CSR complaint calls to find where standards were not being met or where changes should be made. I had a lot of freedom with the project but was also told who else to bounce ideas off of ( CSR managers Aki and Cecily). I liked having sequential steps that included: 1) Getting familiar with CSR calls. 2) Identifying problems. 3) Brainstorming solutions and changes. 4) Implementing suggestions and 5) Testing the changes. The work could get very monotonous just listening to CSR calls but it had to be that way to understand the process completely. I had trouble finding the recorded calls in HelpClient that corresponded with the actual complaint in the DMS. So that was just added time but really not a barrier. It was a great experience to have and I will remember my time working in Shanghai forever.