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Getting Ready for G4 (under GRI) Webinar, October 16, 2013, 12 noon.

Inspiring Engagement in Sustainability, Oct. 17 -Nov. 27th. Early Discount Deadline Oct. 3rd. 

Sustainability Toolkit: a practical guide to integration, Oct. 24, 2013

Life Cycle Assessment for Marketing & Communicators, Nov. 20, 2013.

Life Cycle Assessment for Project Managers and Product Designers, Nov. 20 & 21, 2013.

Sustainable Procurement I: Putting a Sustainability Filter on Procurement.  Nov. 26, 2013, Toronto

Employee Engagement for Sustainability (ON Demand - available now)

Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Reporting (ON-Demand - available now)

Facilitating Transformational Change for Sustainability I (ON Demand - available Now)

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Developing Green Habits for Sustainability (available now On-Demand)

Integrating ISO 26000 (Social Responsibility) into your Management Systems (available now On Demand)   

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Don't be disheartened if getting the boss on board with sustainability is still a challenge. 

 

15 Ideas your CEO Can't Resist

 

A recent article by Toby Webb, Founder of Ethical Corporation, provides 15 ideas that your CEO won't be able to resist.  Here are 5 of the bolder suggestions:

  • Laying a breadcrumb trail - finding smart ways to plant seeds that may take a while to take root, but will appear like their plan.
  • Using family - never underestimate the power our children have on our priorities at work and home
  • Linking sustainability with where they are going next - sustainability is a transferable knowledge and skill set, the more they know in this job, will help them in the next
  • Evoking the competitive spirit - Webb says that CEOs like to keep up with their peers, so show them how
  • Using a bucket of cold water - shock tactics can be risky, but credible voices that tell the truth about where your company ranks on the "best practice" scale can generate creative tension toward sustainability 

You can check out the remaining insights from Toby here

 

Quick Fixes or Meaningful Change?

 

However, you might be cynical of Toby's list.  It might look like a list of quick fixes. They never work.  We know that.

 

But I don't think it is.  I think it is part of a "continual development of awareness and the capacity of choose", something that Senge, Scharmer and others talk about in the book Presence

 

Near the end of the book they reflect on how we are emerging from the "freezing of (our) deeper capacities".  They suggest that old fashioned thinking, like capitalism, trapped us in a system where we became instruments of a "will" not our own.  They think that unknowingly, we have lost our sense of autonomy, our will and our real ability to make choices.  We are not consciously competent at living within a system where the economy, the environment and society are on equal footing. 

 

The authors contend that a "call to service" and "call to cultivation" are the way forward.  We can't shift these big unsustainable systems overnight they say; but we can commit to the continual development of awareness and the capacity to choose.

 

That is our job; yours and mine.  It matters.

 

You Don't Want to Miss

 

Webinar: Getting Ready for G4 under the Global Reporting

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Practical Integration of Sustainability. Receive certification for this course.

Initiative, Oct. 16, 12 noon - 1pm.

 

Sustainability Toolkit Course:  Integrate Sustainability into your Systems using this Toolkit, Oct. 24th 

 

Transformational Company Applied: Attend CBSR's Summit, Nov. 6th, Toronto.

 

Life Cycle Assessment for Products, Processes and Services: Register before Oct. 28th

 

 

 

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Kathryn A. Cooper 

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Glast chanceetting Ready for G4 -  GRI's latest version unveiled - Webinar

 

When: October 16, 2013, 12 noon - 1pm EST

 

In this webinar you will learn to:  

  • Differentiate G4 from G3/3.1 requirements
  • Understand the implications for your organization of reporting in accordance with G4
  • Assess your readiness to report to G4
  • Think strategically about reporting and prioritize your reporting improvements

For More Information or to Register 

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In This Issue:
WEBINAR: Getting Ready for G4 - GRI's latest version unveiled
Life Cycle Assessment
FEATURED VIDEO: Why LCA is central to sustainablity
Sustainability Engagement Network Dialogue
The Transformational Company Applied, Nov. 6, 2013.
PARTNER PROGRAM: Sustainability Practitioner Course
UPCOMING TRAINING
Sustainability Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Integration (ON-Line Course) 
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Practical Integration of Sustainability. Receive certification for this course.

 

When: Oct. 24, 2013, 1 PM EST

Where: ON-Line

 

Learn how to use the Sustainability Toolkit for implementation of your sustainability plan.
  
The Sustainability Toolkit was developed to address a critical gap in the evolving field of sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

 

Learn how this tool and assessment integrates ISO 26000, GRI and PDCA.

 

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  Life Cycle Assessment for Products, Processes and Services (for LCA Project Managers, Engineers & Designers)
  
  
When: November 20 & 21, 2013 
Where: Toronto
Group Rates: Add 1 for $ 400 and 2 for $ 600
Student Rate: $ 350 until Oct. 28
Receive LCA Certification from the Interuniversity Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Pocesses and Services
  
  
  
Life Cycle Assessment for Marketing &
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When: November 20, 2013
Where: Toronto
FEATURED VIDEO - Why Life Cycle Assessment is central to our sustainable decision-making....

Leyla Acaroglu: Paper or plastic? Debunking an environmental myth
Leyla Acaroglu: Paper or plastic? Debunking an environmental myth
  
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SENDSustainability Engagement Network Dialogue - Tracking and Measurement (free)

 

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Join Wendy Firlotte in this month's Sustainability Engagement Network Dialogue

Topic: SEND - Tracking and Measurement 

Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

 

 

The Sustainability Engagement Network Discussion (SEND) Series is a free network of Sustainability Practitioners using peer learning to accelerate employee engagement for sustainability.

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 "Learning from Companies Leading the Way",
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Sustainability Practitioner Course

(4 Day)

 

The Accountability Project recently announced the dates for their four-day Sustainability Practitioner Course.  It covers the essential topics for sustainability/CSR managers and professionals. 

 

You can take the whole course or any of its four modules:

  1. Standards & frameworks - key sustainability concepts and global standards
  2. Stakeholder engagement - the who, what, why and how of engagement
  3. Reporting & assurance - G3, G4, integrated reporting and other developments
  4. NEW Integration & embedding - how to build in sustainability and make it work

All modules are interactive, rich in examples, and delivered by TAP's experienced trainers. 

 

Registration is now open for Calgary (Nov. 4-8, 2013), Vancouver (Dec. 2-6, 2013), and Toronto (April 7-11, 2014).

 

For more information or to register (tell them you heard about it from the Sustainability Learning Centre!)

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