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Environmental Communications
This piece appeared in Croner's Environmental Policy and Procedures Special Report in December 2005. Read all
about the structure of the latest international environmental communications standard, ISO 14063 and the effect it will
have on business all over the world. Find out why you'll need to know more about it, whether you're just starting out
or whether you're a seasoned sustainability professional.
Click here to download your free article and read more
Sustainability, Environment and Professional Bodies
" What adds even more urgency to the debate about professionalism and its role in environmental
discourse is a simple fact. Approaching sustainability from any other angle other than that of putting the environment first
carries enormous risk. In essence, to do anything less than concentrate on the eco-systems that underpin our societies and
our economies is to miss the point. The debate about sustainability and its definition is an irrelevant waste of valuable
time. If we don’t find solutions to the problems presented by ecological sustainability, the problems of social or economic
sustainability won’t need solutions. "
- From a Foreword by Christopher Sheldon for an upcoming issue of Greener Management International. As the
journal of the international environmental management community, this special issue is guest edited by Chris and offers critical
perspectives on the emergence of an environmental sustainability profession.
Click here to download the full Foreword to the special edition of the GMI Journal
BS 8555 and the Acorn Scheme in the UK
Like the sound of implementing an environmental management systems at a pace and to a level that's appropriate for your
company and its resources? Not sure what's involved? Then download this Green Inck overview article that appeared in a much
respected UK newsletter (Croner's Environmental Policy and Procedures Newsletter). If you're new to the whole idea of phased
implementation and how it might work, start here before you move to the more detailed guidelines in the Implementation Workbook
below.
Click here to download the .pdf file of the Croner Special Report from April 2006
The Acorn EMS Phased Implementation Workbook
Free detailed guidance, useful to anyone starting out down the road of Environmental Management System (EMS) implementation.
The workbook was originally published in support of the new British Standard BS 8555. The standard provides guidance
on how organisations can implement an EMS in easy stages. In the UK, the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment
Acorn Scheme uses the standard to provide the basis for external recognition at each stage.
Click here to register and download your free .pdf file of Chapter One
The SIGMA Guidelines (SIGMA = Sustainability: Integrated Guidelines for Management).
Green Inck supplied the lead research in a core strand of this ground-breaking set of guidelines. Funded by the
UK Department of Trade and Industry and supported by the partners Forum for the Future, AccountAbility and the British Standards
Institution, the project and its output has been internationally acknowledged as extremely influential. Green Inck worked
on the practical implementation of the Management Framework and associated toolkit, integrating all the other research carried
out.
We will be updating these links frequently so be sure to check back often.
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