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Moving From Sustainability Talk to Action

3BL Media

How do we balance environmental considerations with large renewable developments? Addressing water and relevant environmental issues for green hydrogen production will allow developers to take full advantage of federal incentives, such as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), for clean energy development.

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Want To Boost the Global Economy by $10 Trillion?

3BL Media

Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business. Both partners used their best practices in developing gender equality programming while working with both local and global networks. And in Vietnam we developed networks that helped women entrepreneurs create critical connections with customers and suppliers.

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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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Global Perspectives on the Difference Between CSR and ESG

3BL Media

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a voluntary, self-regulated practice through which corporations develop social, environmental, and economic policies and programs – sometimes referred to as the “triple bottom line” – aimed at elevating their corporate culture and brand by making a positive impact in their communities.

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Bringing Science and Transparency to the Supplement Industry

B the Change

Lindsay Dahl: Ritual established our sustainability program and developed goals that are based on science and call us to do better. We align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and we use scientific tools — like life cycle assessments — to help drive truly sustainable decisions around ingredients and packaging.

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Sustainability Jargon Dictionary

Carlos Sanchez

This model is also described as reuse, repair and re-manufacture. Triple bottom line – is a framework or theory that recommends that companies commit to focus on social and environmental concerns just as they do on profits. Read more info [link] ). That’s all folks.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

But over time it came to encompass designing buildings for mental health, promoting accessibility standards far beyond those of local building codes, and partnering with Indigenous communities to stimulate economic development. Johnston says that “we scaled community” to include not just cities, but whole countries, the world and the climate.

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