Integrating Sustainability Into
Course Content Via The Triple Bottom Line

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Challenge: My Course Material Isn’t Related To Sustainability

Try This #2:

Explore the the Triple Bottom Line. Can you see now how your course material is related?  


The Triple Bottom Line is an Economics theory that states business should focus as much on the social and environmental aspects of operations as the economic dimension. 

Source: (Reproduced from  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sustainable_development.svg authored by Johann Dreo, inspired from image ‘Sustainable Development’.). 

The Triple Bottom Line is illustrated by the following image, where only a balance of the three achieve true sustainability.

A venn diagram with three overlapping circles, each representing one of the three pillars of sustainable development: economic, social, and environmental.

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