This is Aromake
March 29, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE , John Morelli and | Filed under: Overview
Just familiarizing myself with this interesting method of learning.
Papers on Resilience in Industrial Ecology
by John Morelli and NEIL MILLER | Filed under: 1-The EM as an Industrial Ecologist, General
Tom Seager, who will moderate this discussion at the May Symposium, provided three papers relating to reconciling differences in engineering resilience and ecosystem resilience. One of them is posted below or can be accessed directly at (http://www.environmentalmanager.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/holling-eng-vs-eco-resilience.pdf). This would be a good place to start. Unfortunately, I cannot find the remaining two, so I suggest asking [...]
Tools for Sustainability - Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
March 28, 2008 by GREGORY HILTON , NEIL MILLER and amathew | Filed under: 1-Life-Cycle-Analysis (LCA)
Hello to all participating in this EM discussion topic. For those of you who have not already reviewed my profile, My name is Greg Hilton and I am a RIT student participant in the Environmental Management Workshop.
I don’t know about you, but I am finding many of the EM discussion topics to be very intriguing. In researching the Life Cycle [...]
Stefano’s Questions
by LYNN DALEY | Filed under: 1, 2-From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness
Stefano e-mailed Elaine and I the following questions. I just wanted to post them here.
Proposed questions are as follows:
• Is eco-efficiency enough?
• How are eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness linked?
• Companies that integrated eco-efficiency in their decision making improved
also their eco-effectiveness (or reduced their ecological footprint)?
• Do we have to elaborate a new framework to favor a [...]
Environmental Professional and the Business Continuity Professional
by LYNN DALEY and Joe Rosenbeck | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace
I’m a business continuity professional. It’s similar to the environmental professional (from what I’ve learned thus far) in that the position is outside of business operations, but must influence business operations so that appropriate continuity outcomes are achieved.
I think that, like business continuity, standards for the environmental profession need to be defined by the profession, [...]
The EM as an Industrial Ecologist
by GREGORY HILTON and Frances | Filed under: 1-The EM as an Industrial Ecologist
Hello to everyone participating in this EM discussion topic. For those of you who have not already reviewed my profile, My name is Greg Hilton and I am a RIT student participant in the Environmental Management Workshop.
I would like your thoughts on the roles and definitions of an Environmental Manager and Industrial Ecologist?
Myself, I am new to this discussion topic [...]
Outcome of Eco-Effectiveness
March 27, 2008 by LYNN DALEY | Filed under: 1, 2-From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness
Human Health and the Built Environment Section 4 of the attached article “Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century” focuses on human health as a required outcome of of eco-effectiveness. The workshop contributers suggest that starting within the framework environmental justice and that designers/builders must must engage [...]
Tacit knowledge - definitions and relation to EM
March 26, 2008 by Emily Ryan , LAUREN KERWAWYCZ and | Filed under: 1-The Impact of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard o
Hello Tacit Knowledge discussion group,
To familiarize myself with this topic, I reviewed the definition of “tacit knowledge” from wikipedia and here are some points that I though could help get the discussion going:
tacit knowledge = knowledge that people carry in their minds and is therefore hard to access; it provides context for data as well, [...]
