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A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience

GreenBiz

One is looking at Mexico, and the tension between climate change mitigation and justice for communities. Even in the social impact space, investors need income within the double or triple bottom line. Even in the social impact space, investors need income within the double or triple bottom line.

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How sustainability vets align their work-life identities

GreenBiz

He consults on leading sustainable change through Alexander & Associates and climate change action through Plan C Advisors. I first took it into my personal life and then the workplace, which led to a complete career change. This triple-bottom-line approach to decision making has proven to work for me.

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It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift

GreenBiz

We strove to adhere to Rio Negro's vision and meet aggressive triple bottom-line targets as major systemic issues hit its operations — geopolitical tensions and natural disaster brought on by climate change. We did this all while facing, relentlessly, shareholder demands for their expected return on investment.

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

3BL Media

First, the IPCC made it clear that human activity was contributing to climate change. For two decades I have leaned heavily on the triple-bottom-line model, where we challenge ourselves (in the corporate world) to innovate within our environmental and social initiatives and execute projects with a clear positive economic impact.

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Moving From Sustainability Talk to Action

3BL Media

Climate is Water, and Decarbonization Requires Water A third of the global population today resides in a water-stressed environment, and it is only getting worse. Prolonged droughts, frequent floods, sea level rise, and drying rivers and lakes are climate change consequences. Why is this a triple-bottom-line issue?

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. 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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ALA E-Learning Course: Sustainable Librarianship: Core Competencies and Practices

Environmental News Bits

Start Date: March 10, 2025End Date: April 6, 2025Cost: $188.10 (ALA members) ; $209.00 (non-members) Climate change and environmental destruction are a code red for humanity and are this generations grandest challenge.