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Moving From Sustainability Talk to Action

3BL Media

At this event, I noticed three themes, pathways to achieving sustainability and net zero goals, emerge. Supply Chain is a Triple-Bottom-Line Issue The triple bottom line is a framework to measure the benefit to the people, planet, and monetary outcome (profit). It's also about profit.

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Owens Corning's Frank O'Brien-Bernini Reflects on His 38+ Year Career With the Company

3BL Media

Even more exciting, when we collaborated with leading-edge customers, including builders, designers, contractors, and OEMs, we could make net-zero energy buildings more practical, renewable energy more affordable, and roofs more durable. improved insulation, better reinforcements for wind turbine blades, more durable roofing).

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

We are one piece of a big puzzle,” she says, estimating that two-thirds of the investment required to achieve net-zero by 2050 will come from the private sector. In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration.

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Ecological transformation and the circular economy switch would solve the NSW energy debate

Sustainability Matters

Alongside traditional renewable technologies, such as solar, wind and hydropower, it can harness a triple bottom line effect, solving climate change, the energy resilience crisis and price in one big bang. The net zero roadmap. The move wouldn’t just be more sustainable.

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Sustainability Jargon Dictionary

Carlos Sanchez

Net-zero emissions – According to the Science-Based Target initiative (SBTi), “Net Zero emissions are achieved when anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere are balanced by anthropogenic removals over a specified period.”. This model is also described as reuse, repair and re-manufacture.

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Bringing Science and Transparency to the Supplement Industry

B the Change

We recently established industry-defining sustainability goals: working to have 100% of our labeled ingredients Made Traceable (publicly sharing final place of manufacturing and supplier names), sustainable packaging by 2025, and working toward net zero emissions. It’s openly sharing the science and sourcing behind our products.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

It’s evidence that the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) doesn’t compromise the single bottom line – but expands it. Since 2002 (the year we published our first Best 50 list), Best 50 companies have rewarded their shareholders with 128% higher returns than the overall composite index.

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