January 6, 2008 by
John Morelli
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admin
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Justin Morelli
| Filed under: General
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Below this message and its related responses, you will find the latest postings on the site. They are listed with the most recent post first to provide a glimpse of the most current activities.
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 [...]
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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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June 10, 2008 by
John Morelli
| 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 [...]
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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!
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by
AYOUB MOHAMED
| Filed under: * + 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
AROMAKE AFIEGBE
| Filed under: * + 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: * + Environmental Valuation and Accounting, General, Literature Review
http://ezproxy.rit.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=86066424&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=3589&RQT=309&VName=PQD
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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Mason Baziw
| Filed under: * 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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