April 20, 2008 by Emily Ryan | Filed under: 1-Environmental Valuation and Accounting

Howard N Aspan. “Environmental value: A business view of environmental costs and opportunities. ” Environmental Quality Management 1 Jul 2002: 75-81. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY.. 20 Apr. 2008
This article looks at environmental valuation from a strictly business perspective, placing the options into only three categories: cost, market, and income approaches.  It views [...]

by Emily Ryan | Filed under: 1-The Impact of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard o

From my area of interest regarding the Wal-Mart scorecard, I would like to see the following topics discussed in our collaboratory. This would supplement the topics presented by the moderator: focus on how an EM works within the supply chain to contribute to the successful resolution to reduction initiatives.
 - How Wal-Mart can take advantage of [...]

by Emily Ryan | Filed under: 1-The Impact of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard o

Smorch, P. “Nine steps to greater profitability, sustainability. ” Packaging Digest 1 Mar. 2007: 46-48. ABI/INFORM Global. ProQuest. RIT Lib., Rochester, NY.. 20 Apr. 2008
This article from Packaging Digest reviews ways that a company can leverage the Wal-Mart scorecard requirements to gain competitive advantage and differentiation in other areas. Most of the nine categories (1. [...]

April 10, 2008 by Emily Ryan | Filed under: 1-The Impact of the Wal-Mart Sustainability Scorecard o, General

I attended the RBJ Environmental Leadership Symposium this past Tuesday and was impressed at how much impact the Walmart Scorecard has actually had on local businesses and their environmental initiatives.  In the panel on “Business Advantage to Being Green”, there were two case studies on packaging companies that have made many changes in order to [...]

by Emily Ryan and jsarkis | Filed under: 1-Environmental Valuation and Accounting

In Paul Hawken’s book, “The Ecology of Commerce”, he discusses ways to add unrecognized environmental costs to the free market.  He mentions options for this such as producer responsibility and Pigovian taxes which, when working together,  could enhance our valuation ability. 
If the producer is forced to bear all of the costs associated with the product, then [...]

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, [...]

March 25, 2008 by Emily Ryan | Filed under: 1-Environmental Valuation and Accounting

Hello Environmental Valuation and Accounting group,
I am an IT manager and an MBA student with concentrations in technology management and environmental sustainability so I have never come across the concept of environmental valuation in my day to day work. Or at least I didn’t think so! After reading up on the topic I realized that [...]

March 21, 2008 by Emily Ryan | Filed under: General

Testing!