April 29, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-In the industry and in the workplace, General, Literature Review, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

Environmental Strategy: Emerging market for consultancy services
As corporations have come of age in their sensitivities to environmental concerns, this article beacons on the environmental manager to seize the opportunities present to accept a leadership role in guiding corporations to meeting their desire to becoming more environmentally responsible. It also challenges the environmental manager to look [...]

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by AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager, Collaboratory, General, Literature Review

Don’t waste your waste, Pointers for settingup a solid wasterecyclingprogram at your facility by Lori D. Pfeil
This article is a complementary to the”Renewable Refuse” article in Environmental Protection magazine, May 2007 that was in my previous post.

Abstract

After reading the “Renewable Refuse”, this article is discussing the questions: where do we start? what should be involved? [...]

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by AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager, Collaboratory, TOOLS FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Click here for the article Renewable Refuse 
Renewable Refuse is an article I read yesterday in the Environmental Protection magazine, May 2007 in RIT, Wallace Library. I was interested in how trash was described as a commodity.
Abstract
7.6 billion tons of industrial solid waste are generated every year in the US.
Trash is low in the totem pole when attention is [...]

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by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: 1-Environmental Valuation and Accounting, General, Literature Review

Measuring environmentally sustainable development
Gross National Product, while a tool for measurement of a countries well being does not always appropriately capture the full picture specifically to include inequality and poverty, true measure of human resource, environmental impact of various activities and the spiritual, social, political aspects of welfare. Many of these aspects cannot be measured in any quantitative [...]

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April 28, 2008 by AROMAKE AFIEGBE | Filed under: 1-Environmental Valuation and Accounting, General, Literature Review

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A history of the extension of traditional cost accounting systems to account for environmental impacts and their costs goes back toward the end of the 1970’s in Germany where rules were promulgated to calculate the business costs of environmental protection.  This article looks at the flow- and decision-oriented perspective of environmental cost accounting as a supplement for [...]

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by Mason Baziw | Filed under: 1, 3-What Should Be Measured and Why?, General

Jean-François Henri, Alexandre Giasson. “Measuring environmental performance: a basic ingredient of environmental management. ” CMA Management 1 Aug. 2006: 28-32. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY.. 28 Apr. 2008
Again, I am looking into the use of environmental performance indicators for measuring environmental performance. I have had some experience with ISO [...]

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by Mason Baziw | Filed under: 1-In the host community

Anthony E Ladd, Bob Edwards. “Corporate swine and capitalist pigs: A decade of environmental injustice and protest in North Carolina. ” Social Justice 29.3 (2002): 26-46. Research Library. ProQuest. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY.. 28 Apr. 2008
This article provides many examples of what must be done by environmental managers to combat environmental [...]

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by Mason Baziw | Filed under: 1-In the host community, General

Robert F Blomquist. “Six Thinking Hats for the Lorax: Corporate Responsibility and the Environment. ” Georgetown International Environmental Law Review 18.4 (2006): 691-705. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. RIT Lib.
Firstly, I felt this was a great article because I thoroughly enjoyed The Lorax by Dr. Seuss as a kid. I felt that the most relevant [...]

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by NICOLAS HERNANDEZ and amathew | Filed under: 1-In the host community, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

Corporate Awakening
Abstract:
This is an extreme case related to the role of the environmental manager in the host community, but it shows that the environmental manager has to deal at the local, national and international level with all kind of governmental and non-government organizations.
This paper discusses the TOTAL S.A. attempts to make a difference in the [...]

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by NICOLAS HERNANDEZ and amathew | Filed under: 1-In the host community, Collaboratory, THE ROLE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

Quantifying Economic and Environmental Benefits of Co-Located Firms
This paper is really about industrial symbiosis. A win-win strategy that engages separate industries to work together and engage in physical exchanges of material, water, energy and by products. I see this approach as an opportunity for the environmental manager in the host community to minimize or eliminate [...]

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