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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In Beck’s mind, too , forwarding-thinking companies should look at natural resources not just as consumables but as recyclable goods, and then design systems and products in a way that eliminates waste. Nearly a century ago, Ecolab sold dishwasher soap with a dispenser described as its first effort to reduce waste.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

When she walked out that day in 2009, she wasn’t sure she still wanted to be an accountant. Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. The professor – one Louis Chauvin – was a standout in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management.

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