April 29, 2008 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? [...]

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 [...]

April 28, 2008 by AYOUB MOHAMED and NEIL MILLER | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager, 1, 2-The EM and Corporate Social Responsibility, Collaboratory

CREATING SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISES – A ROLE FOR LAW IN ENSURING OUR FUTURE
Nancy J. King, BA 230, Spring 2006
www.bus.oregonstate.edu/programs/Sustainability2006.ppt

This is a unique presentation about sustainability and corporate social responsibility, it firstly explains the unclarity of defining sustainability, what the classic and triple-bottom line definitions are, [...]

by AYOUB MOHAMED and NEIL MILLER | Filed under: 1, 2, 3-The Goal of the Environmental Manager

creating-and-environmental-coordinator-position.pdf
NWF Campus Ecology Program Environmental Coordinator Proposal Project
October 2000 Phase I: Case Study Development
This article is a study of how environmental managers in a number of US. institutions started their careers and managed sustainability and environmental issues.
This Article, with some case studies about how those EMs perform their role toward sustainability and how initially [...]

by AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: Growth vs. Development

This article (By John Spears, from the Online Environmental Community website) talks about one of the sustainable designs projects that was presented in the UN global worming conference in Kyoto, Japan.
This is an example of a developing nation(South Africa) through limiting greenhouse emissions.
This project has a very important sustainable aspect which is [...]

April 20, 2008 by AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: 1, 2-The EM and Corporate Social Responsibility

Reading more in the Hitachi CSR 2007 report I learned that Hitachi sets stricter voluntary standards than those enforced by law.
I am sorry I couldn’t attach the pdf file to my previous post (Hitachi Corporate Social Responsibility Report). maybe because of the file size. Please flow the link below or cut and paste the URL [...]

by AYOUB MOHAMED and NEIL MILLER | Filed under: 1, 2-The EM and Corporate Social Responsibility

This is a report for CRS in the multinational corporation, Hitachi. In 2006 Hitachi took part in an event sponsored by the Nature Conservation Society, a non profit organization, where they had dialogues between students on CSR and ecosystem conservation. Students asked Hitachi to get consumers and society involved in the widespread of eco-products.
Every year [...]

March 21, 2008 by AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: General

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