Economic Sustainability The business of staying in business Deborah Doane & Alex MacGillivray New Economics Foundation March 2001 Executive Summary Although sustainability is now generally understood to be a combination of environmental‚ social and economic performance‚ this report finds that economic sustainability is the most elusive component of the “triple bottom line” approach. There is not even universal consensus that businesses should be economically sustainable‚
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problems lie in social and economic systems that are unsustainable awareness of the need for environmental and social sustainability has grown among citizens‚ governments and finally‚ mainstream businesses. Recently‚ that awareness appears to have reached a tipping point‚ which finally stimulated businesses and consumers to be more sustainable. What is sustainability? Sustainability is the ability of a system no maintains or renews itself perpetually. For example with nature‚ people and animals renew
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Sustainability at ^ Hewlett-Packard: FROMTHEORYTO PRACTICE Lynelle Preston "The Internet and related information technologies hold the promise of rapid‚ sustainable economic growth that directly benefits everyone on the planet. However‚ the same forces could also trigger traumatic social‚ environmental and economic disruption. . . . If technology firms simply follow strategies of maximizing short-term shareowner value by encouraging maximum consumption of products by customers‚ we exacerbate
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------------------------------------------------- Business Sustainability Business sustainability is often defined as managing the triple bottom line - a process by which firms manage their financial‚ social and environmental risks‚ obligations and opportunities. These three impacts are sometimes referred to as profits‚ people and planet. However‚ this approach relies on an accounting based perspective and does not fully capture the time element that is inherent within business sustainability. A more robust definition is that
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\The purpose of this memo is to address how impressive McDonald’s sustainability strategy‚ initiatives‚ and related outcomes are. From humble beginnings in 1954‚ McDonald’s is one of the world’s leading food service retailers. Their history shows they have embarked their journey towards a more sustainable business for more than three decades‚ starting in 1980 by disclosing nutrition information in their restaurants. Now‚ McDonald’s is “on a journey together for good; good food and sourcing served
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Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program The Philips Supplier Sustainability Involvement Program is built on five pillars: create commitment by setting out our requirements; getting suppliers to understand our requirements and monitoring identified risk suppliers through audits; working with suppliers to resolve issues; and engaging stakeholders. Building block 1: Create commitment In 2012 we updated the Philips Supplier sustainability declaration in accordance with the updated EICC
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report analyses SPIGEN‚ an online Korean company specializing in quality mobile phone accessories and its plan to enter the sustainability market. The report further analyses the company’s mission statement that will set the course for sustainable development. It is recommended that SPIGEN adopts a sustainable strategy and launch new line of eco-friendly products that is a variant of three of SPIGEN’s best-selling phone cases‚ “Neo Hybrid”‚ “Slim Armour” and “Tough
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Sustainability‚ in a broad sense‚ is the capacity of maintaining a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context‚ sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes‚ functions‚ biodiversity and productivity into the future. Sustainability has become a complex term that can be applied to almost every facet of life on Earth‚ particularly the many different levels of biological
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CL964: Principles of sustainability “Because sustainable development is an oxymoron (see Redclift)‚ because a holistic approach to sustainability is impossible (see Sterling) and because politics cannot solve practical and physical problems (see Held)‚ there is no possible policy response that alone can deliver sustainability.” Sandeep Sanal Kumar (201163688) 14/05/2011
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T RECYCLING SUSTAINABILITY SOC 112 FINAL PROJECT [Sustainability means providing for the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the environment to provide for our future generations. We are responsible for leaving our future generations a safe‚ healthy environment. We risk human and Wildlife extinction if we continue the way we are going. Our planet cannot sustain human life this way. We can all work together to advert this from happening and we must act individually as well
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