Bridges Out of Poverty: One Word – “Plastics!” (05/24/2013)
Read about the amazing work being done at Cascade Engineering in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their “2012 Triple Bottom Line Report” includes metrics on financials as well as social and environmental achievements. The company, which creates plastic molds for many different industries and reported $338 million in sales in 2012, has a commitment to equality and social justice based not only on ethics, but also economics: says CEO Fred Keller, “Sometimes I am politely asked if our Triple Bottom Line focus on People and Planet takes away from Profits…We have a great opportunity to address the common misconception that these three priorities are necessarily at odds with each other. In truth, they can be. But if you do it right, the opposite is true.” Read more…
Act Locally Waco: One Word – Plastics!
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aha! Process is an award-winning training and publishing company providing workshops, publications, and consulting services to help improve lives and build sustainable success in communities, schools, and higher education. We do this by creating an understanding of the dynamics that cause and maintain poverty from the individual to systems level.
