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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

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. She found herself burrowing back into her textbooks, returning to first principles as she tried to come up with a meaningful way to measure social impact.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank. Patti Poppe has a grounded, straight-talking style, an inclination to see opportunities in crisis, and an embrace of innovation to enrich the triple bottom line.

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Inside Oklahoma’s Innovation Rush

Stanford Social Innovation

Oklahoma City saw significant growth in bioscience between 2001 and 2020, with industry employment up 25 percent and R&D activity doubling. If we can do this well, we can have a triple bottom line benefit, which is a special opportunity particularly as more of the growth in the United States is happening in this region.”