September 25, 2008 by
John Morelli
| Filed under: General
The American College of Management and Technology and the Environmental Management Leadership Initiative will co-host the third International Environmental Management Leadership Symposium on the 3rd and 4th of October in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Keynote speakers for the event include Dr. N. Ružinski, State Secretary for Environmental Protection from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, who will discuss Environmental Management in Croatia and Mr. Vinko Mladineo, Director of the Croatian Fund for Environmental Protection & Energy Efficiency, who will talk about Environmental Management & the Croatian Fund.
The full agenda can be viewed at: dubrovnikenvironmentalmanagementsymposiumagenda-9-24.
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January 6, 2008 by
John Morelli
,
admin
and
Justin Morelli
| Filed under: General
For those new to EnvironmentalManager.org, it may sound a bit presumptuous to be welcomed home on your first visit, but this is a website developed by and for environmental managers and the profession of environmental management and you are welcome here. If you are a professional environmental manager, then you are invited to participate in this collaboration to [...]
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July 25, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: -- + Manager vs. Scientist/Engineer
An alternate offering of this summary can be found HERE
Venue: Corvinus Symposium, June 23-24, 2008
Workshop Topic: The Environmental Management Skill Set:
A balance between engineering/science and management.
Workshop Moderator: Scott Wolcott
Summary:
It was proposed that the question, “What is the appropriate balance of skills?” be addressed by first identifying beneficial skill sets an engineer/scientist and business manager might [...]
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by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: * + The EM and Corporate Social Responsibility
This summary is also available as a Word Document
Overview
The workshop was moderated by CUB graduate student and assistant professor Simon Milton and was attended by one practicing environmental management professional, a number of graduate students from environmental management programs and one member of department faculty.
Participants:
Moderator: Simon Milton: Simon.milton@uni-corvinus.hu
1) Anna Szechy Anna.szechy@uni-corvinus.hu
2) Szilvia Gartner sgartner@denso.hu
3) Laura Baritz laura@hcbc.hu
4) Prof. [...]
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July 21, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: + Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems
Conclusions of the Workshop on Environmental Management Systems Environmental Management Systems have been around since the middle ofthe 1990’s and became mainstream tools of managing environmental issuesin the corporate sector since then. There have been much researchrelating to the motivation factors and barriers/benefits and costs ofmanagement systems. Motivation factors to implement an EMS include thepush [...]
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July 15, 2008 by
Brian Butler
| Filed under: * + The Goal of the Environmental Manager
This workshop on the goals of the environmental manager focused on the concept of a unifying, or profession-wide goal for the environmental management profession. At the previous Environmental Management Leadership symposium held at RIT in May, 2008, a hypothesis was proposed that stated that environmental sustainability is the ultimate goal of the environmental manager; after [...]
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June 20, 2008 by
Frances
| Filed under: * + In the industry and in the workplace
Hitting the Green Wall: Why Corporate Programs Get Stalled
This is one of the early writings that urged environmental managers in industry to turn their “environmentalese” jargon into the language of business, ie. making the business case for the environment. The article argues that unless environmental managers learned and became successful in doing this, environmental [...]
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June 16, 2008 by
Frances
and
John Morelli
| Filed under: * + In the industry and in the workplace
One of the most commonly suggested strategies for environmental managers is to make the “business case.” However, some argue that making the business case is not enough to bring about the type of change needed to move to environmental sustainability. The perception is that what may be a good case for business will surely be [...]
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June 11, 2008 by
John Morelli
| Filed under: Collaboratory, General
On Monday and Tuesday, 23 & 24 June, a second international Environmental Management Leadership Symposium will be held at Corvinus University in Budapest. In preparation for this event, a recent research report about the state of EM in Hungary is attached for your review (environmental-management-in-hungary.doc). The findings, analysis and conclusions of the report are based upon [...]
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