 Upcoming SLC Courses & E-Learning
Sustainability Toolkit Webinar. Sept. 26, 2013, 12 noon.
Green/Sustainability Project Management (ON-Line). Starts October 9, 2013. Discount Deadline Sept. 18. Save $100
Sustainable Procurement I: A Procurement Approach to Building a Sustainable Supply Chain Oct.10, 2013 Toronto Discount Deadline Sept. 19, Save $100
Getting Ready for G4 (under GRI) Webinar, October 16, 2013, 12 noon.
Life Cycle Assessment for Marketing & Communicators, Nov. 20, 2013.
Life Cycle Assessment for Project Managers and Product Designers, Nov. 20 & 21, 2013.
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)
Facilitating Transformational Change for Sustainability II (ON Demand - available now)
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Upcoming Partner Programs
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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:
- Standards & frameworks - key sustainability concepts and global standards
- Stakeholder engagement - the who, what, why and how of engagement
- Reporting & assurance - G3, G4, integrated reporting and other developments
- 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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Greetings!
Harassed by the deadlines of a new quarter, it is easy to forget our purpose here. What is sustainability anyway? Do we have any hope of making a difference? Is it too late?
But looking at the horrendous effect of the Colorado once-in-a-1,000 years flood, reminds us what is at stake.
"Twenty thousand homes have been destroyed or damaged, and
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Maybe we didn't think "climate refugees" would be our neighbours - Colorado, Alberta, New York, New Orleans, Quebec... |
streets have been turned into rivers, and streams have turned into lakes. A vast number of roads are damaged or destroyed including three major highways and dozens of bridges," notes Richard Matthews in his recent blog Biblical Colorado Flooding and the Cost of Climate Change. 15,000 people evacuated, eight dead - and counting.
This is where the myths: "it's the economy or the environment", "progress means economic growth", "infinite growth is possible on a finite planet", have led us (see JFK's sidebar quote). It is time for a little critical thinking, in our day to day decisions. Let each one of these "adverse weather" catastrophies put a sense of urgent resolve in our step. Let's fully rediscover, in the words of JFK, the "discomfort of thought".
PS - We do a lot of deep thinking in our Green/Sustainability Project Management and Sustainable Procurement Courses - discount deadline today.
Kathryn
Kathryn A. Cooper
President & Chief Learning Officer
Sustainability Learning Centre
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Sustainability Toolkit Webinar 
When: September 26, 2013,
12 noon 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.
For More Information or to Register (FREE to Sustainability Learning Network Members) |
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Green/Sustainability Project
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Green/Sustainable Project Management New Dates |
Management (ON-Line)
Starts: Oct.9, 2013
Location: On-Line
Early registration Deadline:
September 18,2013
If you are a Sustainability Project Manager or Project Manager in a company with a sustainability strategy, this program is for you.
Professionally develop your sustainability and project management skills, enhance your career flexibility, and improve your Project Management competency.
Join Nike, National Resource Council of Canada, Kal Tire and others at this course!
For More Information or to Register |
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Sustainable Procurement I:
A Procurement Approach to Building a Sustainable Supply Chain
Date: October 10, 2013 Location: Toronto
Early Registration Deadline: September 19, 2013 (save $ 100)
The practical and hands on design of this program provides attendees with the knowledge and experience needed to lead or support a sustainable procurement initiative.
For More Information or to Register |
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SEND - Integrating Sustainability into Operations
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Topic: SEND - Integrating Sustainability into Operations
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)
The Sustainability Engagement Network Discussion (SEND) Series is a network of Sustainability Practitioners using peer learning to accelerate employee engagement for sustainability.
Check out the Sustainability Engagement Network Dialogue |
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FEATURED VIDEO: Environmental Footprint Webinar
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FEATURED ARTICLE:
Advice from a Pro - Sustaining Effective Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations | |
Momentum is a funny thing; when you have it - it seems like it could magically go on forever.
But in reality, it takes much insight, planning, and energy to sustain and build it. It seems, this is true of sustaining multi-stakeholder collaborations.
"The nature of multi-stakeholder collaborations is changing," says Nicholas Luff of the Partnership Brokers Network. "Today's collaborations are more relational than transactional. In the past, we have approached relational partnerships in an informal and organic manner. But today, we are trying to make big system shifts with these arrangements. They need to be more rigorous planning and implementation."
Nick knows what he is talking about. He is an accredited multi-sector partnership broker and the panel moderator for Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Transformational Company Applied Summit (November 6, 2013 - Toronto).
He supports organizations through stakeholder engagement and partnership brokering in the extractives, healthcare, education and ICT sectors.
Read Nick's Advice on Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations on our blog: Advice from Nicholas Luff, Accredited Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Broker and Panel Speaker at CBSR's 2013 Summit.
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Reconceiving Conservation (ON-Line Course)
When: Starts October 16, 2013
Where: ON-Line
Join us for a little Critical Thinking:
- How can we understand and use the conservation ethic to
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Reconceiving Conservation Overview - in 10 minutes - gain critical insights on how to take a new look at sustainability and the conservation ethic. |
drive personal and cultural behavior change toward sustainable development? - How did conservation become burdened with connotations of limits and inhibition of action, rather than abundance and transformational bounty?
- How can we have got so wrong the relationship among ecosystems, economics, and community development, and how can we set this straight?
- How can we grasp the enormity of the refashioning of the entire material economy, and how can community development be a tool in that refashioning?
To view the entire video of Webinar 1
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Getting 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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Life Cycle Assessment for Products, Processes and Services (for LCA Project Managers, Engineers & Designers)
When: November 20 & 21, 2013 Where: Toronto
Early Registration Deadline: September 28, 2013 (save $ 200)
Life Cycle Assessment for Marketing & Communications
When: November 20, 2013
Where: Toronto
Early Registration Deadline: September 28, 2013 (save $ 200)
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Upcoming Sustainability Training
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