Our Changing Climate
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Why is IKEA so cheap?
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October 11, 2019
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October 11, 2019
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706
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In this Our Changing Climate environmental video essay, I look at why IKEA is so cheap as well as try to understand the environmental consequences of IKEA furniture's cheap cost. Specifically, I look at how IKEA's supply chain management, assemble-it-yourself, and questionable tax avoidance give rise to IKEA's cheap cost. In addition, I also evaluate IKEA as a sustainable company. I try to understand whether IKEA's sustainability goals are all talk or whether they are actually interested in creating an environmentally conscious furniture company.
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Resources:
1. IKEA Sustainability report FY18 (IKEA)
2. People and Planet Positive (IKEA)
3. IKEA Ltd Ethical Consumer Score (Ethical Consumer)
4. How IKEA gets you to impulsively buy more (Vox via YouTube)
5. Can Ikea turn its blonde world green? (Fortune)
6. IKEA powering itself with green energy in the Nordic countries (CPH Post Online)
7. Ikea Has Been Accused of Avoiding 1 Billion Euros in Taxes (Fortune)
8. House PerfectIs the IKEA ethos comfy or creepy? (The New Yorker)
9. IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600yearold trees (Grist)
10. How Sustainable Is IKEA, Really? (Eco Warrior Princess)
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