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Ethics in Action

Triple Bottom Line Reporting

"Pressure to deliver outstanding commercial performance is being closely followed by pressure to demonstrate responsible socioeconomic and environmental performance. Increasingly these pressures are coming from the same groups of people: consumers, talented employees and institutional shareholders, as well as governments and the general public." The Power To Change, SustainAbility, 2001. Read More at http://www.sustainability.com/publications/latest/power-to-change-more1.asp

Socialfunds.com provides an article from the perspective of investors and fund managers at http://www.socialfunds.com/news/article.cgi/article740.html

Differing perspectives from consultants on environmental reporting can be found at http://www.endsdirectory.com/articles/index.cfm?action=grappling

"As a global communications services company, AT&T is smack in the middle of the Internet revolution. Multimedia services, electronic commerce, and anytime, anywhere, any-distance communications are all made possible by our technology." Consider AT&T's further comments on triple bottom line reporting and its usefulness at http://www.att.com/ehs/annual_reports/ehs_report/triple_bottom_line.html

The Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility home page provides a great starting point from which to read about many standards, tools and online resources. Visit them at http://www.cicr.net/

AccountAbility provides leadership in dealing with Human Rights Issues and independent third party standards. See them at http://www.accountability.org.uk/default.asp

"The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) is an independent advisory body that provides decision makers, opinion leaders and the Canadian public with advice and recommendations for promoting sustainable development." See more at http://www.nrtee-trnee.ca/Publications/Eco-efficiency_Workbook/index.html

The Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles aims to provide an environment for discussing issues related to the necessity, difficulty, costs and rewards of conducting business ethically. For more info see, http://www.ethicsandbusiness.org/index3.htm

"To refuse the challenge implied by the triple bottom line is to risk extinction." John Elkington, Cannibals with Forks.

"At the core of the sustainability agenda is the issue of how to harness the resources of the private sector to these new social and environmental imperatives without compromising-and ideally enhancing-economic profitability and value creation," Oil and Gas Journal 1999.