The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success -- and How You Can TooThe Triple Bottom Line is the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement. Andrew Savitz chronicles both the real problems that companies face and the innovative solutions that can come from sustainability. His is a hard-line approach to bottom-line fundamentals that is re-making companies around the globe. |
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Page 110
... pollution in the form of logs , silt , and fragments of wood and bark that clogged the river bottom . By 1834 , when Veazie Dam was constructed , the logging com- panies had begun to build dams on the river to power their sawmills ...
... pollution in the form of logs , silt , and fragments of wood and bark that clogged the river bottom . By 1834 , when Veazie Dam was constructed , the logging com- panies had begun to build dams on the river to power their sawmills ...
Page 111
... pollution as chemicals used in production processes were dumped into the waters . The commercial salmon catch began to decline , falling from over ten thousand fish in 1880 to just forty fish in 1947 , the last year commercial salmon ...
... pollution as chemicals used in production processes were dumped into the waters . The commercial salmon catch began to decline , falling from over ten thousand fish in 1880 to just forty fish in 1947 , the last year commercial salmon ...
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... pollution of the river near your factory , for example , may be mutually reinforcing goals , as both might involve redesigning processes to minimize the flow of water through the plant . But such goals as eliminating worker accidents ...
... pollution of the river near your factory , for example , may be mutually reinforcing goals , as both might involve redesigning processes to minimize the flow of water through the plant . But such goals as eliminating worker accidents ...
Contents
A Business Fable for Our Times | 3 |
How to Achieve LongTerm Business Success | 21 |
The Age of Accountability | 41 |
Copyright | |
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