However, in addition to profit, triple bottom line businesses also measure their performance in terms of social (people) and environmental (planet) responsibility.
In this paper, we conduct a case study to identify differences in the seven Toyota Way principles associated with process design between American automakers and Toyota from the triple bottom line perspective to investigate the effects of different process designs along three dimensions of sustainability: economic (profit), social (people), and environmental (planet).
And then there are the environmental concerns our planet is so overpopulated and resources are so slim.
When National Review decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger.
According to one of the papers, the name is "a vivid expression of the degree of environmental change on planet Earth".
Wrenched back and forth to oblivion, thrusting its sharp angles out in all directions, it is perhaps an apt metaphor for the environmental armageddon our planet may soon be facing.
Yet, in summing it up, UNEP decries "the declining environmental quality of planet earth", and wags a finger at economic prosperity: "Currently, one-fifth of the world's population enjoys high, some would say excessive, levels of affluence".
"As Africans, we've contributed virtually nothing to the environmental mess our planet is in," said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, the other co-chairman, addressing a news conference by video link from his country.
The first attempt at an industry report card, commissioned by the environmental group Clean Air/Cool Planet (which has some involvement in the business), gave decidedly mixed reviews to the field, selecting eight sellers of carbon offsets that it concluded were reasonably reliable.
Bill Burtis, manager of communications and special projects for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire based environmental group Clean Air-Cool Planet, adds that the VCS and other standard-setting organizations are "doing good, hard work to move this system forward in a sustainable way".
If anything, the mass-sterilization might reduce the environmental strain on the planet.
