September 25, 2008 by John Morelli and Brian Butler | Filed under: General

The American College of Management and Technology and the Environmental Management Leadership Initiative co-hosted the third International Environmental Management Leadership Symposium on the 3rd and 4th of October in Dubrovnik, Croatia.  Keynote speakers for the event included Dr. N. Ružinski, State Secretary for Environmental Protection from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, who discussed [...]

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 [...]

June 11, 2008 by John Morelli and | 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 [...]

June 10, 2008 by John Morelli and | Filed under: Collaboratory, General

Comments and suggestions from the RIT Symposium were collected and are presented below.
Consolidation and Overview of Symposium Suggestions/Critiques 
There seemed to be a general feeling among the moderators that most participants were quite receptive to the idea of environmental managers being more active players with their respective companies, however, the problem area tended to rest in [...]

by John Morelli and | Filed under: 2, 3-Effectiveness of Environmental Management Systems

Welcome to the discussion!
Researchers working on this important subtopic include:
Gyula Zilahy
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Listed below are the various postings from the research team. Some will be abstracts of and links to relevant literature. Others will be original work posted here for comments, criticisms, suggestions, questions, etc. from professional environmental managers who visit this site.
If you are interested in [...]

May 4, 2008 by John Morelli | Filed under: General

Monday morning at 8:00 approximately 60 environmental managers and professionals from other related disciplines will meet at the RIT Center for Integrated Manufacturing Studies (CIMS Building #78) for the first international Environmental Management Leadership Symposium!  Click here for the agenda! 

April 24, 2008 by John Morelli and AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: 1-The EM as an Industrial Ecologist

Tom Seager, has just provided this important, hopeful, and encouraging discussion that expands and enriches this topic. Thanks, Tom.
One of the difficulties in environmental management is that the EM is often perceived within the organization as an overhead cost to be minimized, rather than a valuable resource to be maximized. Corporate decision makers engage EM [...]

by John Morelli | Filed under: 1, 2-Sustainability Labeling and Consumer Education

The three questions that were originally suggested by Lisa appear the most likely for the focus of this discussion:

What types of environmental, social, and economic labelling already exist?
What information should be included in sustainability?
What is the best way to present the information to the consumer?

by John Morelli , LYNN DALEY and AYOUB MOHAMED | Filed under: 1, 2-From Eco-Efficiency to Eco-Effectiveness, General

It seems that a lot of this discussion will revolve around these two compound questions:

How are eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness linked and have companies that integrated eco-efficiency in their decision making also improved their eco-effectiveness?
How can we measure eco-efficiency and eco-effectiveness and how can we integrate these measures into the decision making process (for example in [...]

by John Morelli and | Filed under: 1-The EM as an Industrial Ecologist, General

Our moderator for this topic has indicated his preference for a discussion relating to the difference between “resiliency” in engineering and ecosystems, so I think it would be good to work around this. Considering Greg’s questions:
 - How does industrial ecology fit with the values of environmental management? 
 - What are the changing elements related to industrial ecology [...]