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Thought of the Day
"Using business and
entrepreneurial skills to
help solve critical social and
environmental issues is one
of the biggest opportunities
of our lifetimes."
Sir Richard Branson
The B Team
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Upcoming Partner Programs
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ENGAGE: Employee Engagement for Sustainability
(On Demand)
Understand the research and science behind successful principles and practices for employee engagement for sustainability.
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The Sustainability Learning Centre is a learning & networking hub for sustainability.
Ask us about Customized In House Training & Green Team University Certification
 Don't forget - students get 50 % off in our student scholarship program. Select Student Option when Registering.
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Greetings!
CBSR's 2013 Summit is only a week away. It is a unique opportunity to really come to know the new face of business.
According to John Elkington, founding partner of Volans and co-
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John Elkington is the keynote and panelist at CBSR's Summit, Nov. 6th
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founder of SustainAbility - an international sustainability guru - a new breed of business leaders is emerging.
Market Revolutions & Breakthrough Change?
These leaders are calling for "market revolutions" as they're recognizing that "change as usual" - or change at an incremental pace - simply won't suffice to meet the massive social and environmental challenges we face.
Elkington says, we need "breakthrough" change with business leaders taking radical steps to transform the systems they operate within. Not a comfortable place for most business. Come and find out what to expect in the future.
Elkington's thought leader work includes Breakthrough Capitalism, Zeronauts and the B Team. Don't miss this "once in a life time" opportunity to hear John and Learn about the Transformational Company Applied.
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Deepen your Capacity to Survive in the New Business Paradigm:
CBSR Summit - Nov. 6, 2013, Toronto
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The Transformational Company Applied, CBSR's 11th Summit
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Deepen your capacity and knowledge of the transformation your business requires to survive in the new business paradigm. CBSR's Nov. 6th program delivers thought leadership and hands-on synthesis:
- Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations & Partnerships that yield a lasting impact on systemic issues.
- Road to "Breakthrough Capitalism" and Scaling Transformation in Canada changing the rules to ensure a healthy, fair, and affordable world for 9 billion people.
- Sustainable Value Chains, best practices and lessons learned working with corporate value chains to improve the sustainability performance of the company's up and downstream impacts.
- CSR Reporting: the Shift from Inform to Engage trends, tools, and best practices of improving performance and creating on-going engagement.
- Public Policy Advocacy with a focus on how and why companies influence governments to adopt policies to advance sustainability.
Each of the sessions includes facilitated round-table exercises and discussions that capture the wealth of experiences from attendees. For More Information
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FEATURED VIDEO: Breakthrough Capitalism
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How do you Sustain Effective Multi-Stakeholder Collaborations?
CBSR Summit, Nov. 6, 2013
"We really don't know how to authentically collaborate." This was a surprisingly honest confession from a couple of individuals during a debrief in one of the collaborations in which I am involved.
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CBSR Summit tackles how to Sustain Effective Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships. It is not as easy as i
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Fortunately, learning how to "Sustain Effective Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration and Partnerships", is a topic at the upcoming Canadian Business For Social Responsibility Summit, Nov. 6, 2013, Toronto, featuring Nick Lutte, Independent Consultant & Senior Associate - The Partnering Initiative.
But before getting to the mechanics of sustaining collaborations; he says that the principles of partnership: equity, transparency and mutual benefit must first be in place because they lead to respect, trust and sustainability - the secret sauce to system shifting.
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The Transformational Company Framework - your roadmap to a profitable future
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The Transformational Company Framework - a roadmap for business profitability & survival
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The "Transformational Company" framework is a guide for companies who recognize the need to scale up their CSR and sustainability efforts in order to address systemic societal risks, challenges and opportunities. These qualities are designed to be aspirational and inspirational - to act as a roadmap.
This framework represents a global consensus on the new standard for sustainability in Canada and beyond; the consensus highlights the emergent need for companies to rethink their core purpose and customer offerings, to focus their efforts on solutions to systemic social, economic and environmental problems and to going beyond "zero harm" to creating net positive social and environmental benefits. Focus on the Framework at CBSR's Summit, Nov. 6, 2013.
Launch this Interactive Tool
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 Green Team GAP Assessment Workshop (ON-LINE)
When:
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Nov. 1 - Nov. 22, 2013
Where: On-Line
Join Suncor, City of Kingston & PowerStream in this course.
Launch your Green Team efforts or revitalize it through this program.
Look Who Has Attended:
Appleby College, Trillium Insurance, BC Bio, City of Pickering, Nova Gold Resources, Sagamok First Nation, PSC Environmental, AET Environmental, Ontario Medical Association, Bethune Global Sustainable Development Inc, Maureen Lynch Consulting, Green For Life and others.
Assemble your Green Team for this Lunch & Learn workshop on "greening up" your facility.
- complete a 51 point checklist
- conduct a Materiality Test to determine priorities
- develop a short term and long term plan
- learn tips for engaging staff in implementation
- access resources to measure savings
This program is also available for customized, in-house delivery.
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L  EARN: Reconceiving Conservation (ON-Line Course)  | |
Register now for the ON Line Course and check out the Free Preview Webinar
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When: Starts Nov. 13, 2013
Where: ON-Line
ON Line Course Answers Difficult Questions on Conservation
But webinars don't give us enough time to really address these questions and develop a strategy for our organization, community or country. So Ed Quevedo will be doing a 4-part ON-Line Course starting Nov.13
He will be addressing difficult questions like:
- How can we understand and use the conservation ethic to 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?
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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.
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Check out this overview video of Webinar 1, join us for Webinar 2 and sign up for Reconceiving Conservation the ON-Line Course that starts Nov. 13th. Join us in re-engineering our thinking to reconceive conservation.
To view the entire video of Webinar 1
To register for Webinar 2
For More Information or Register for the Reconceiving Conservation Course beginning Nov. 13
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Receive LCA Certification from the InterUniversity Centre for the Life Cycle of Products, Processes & Services
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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
Past Participants
Sobeys, Research in Motion, Lanxess, Rogers Communications, UPS, Ernst & Young, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Toronto Transit Commission, Zerofootprint, Enviro-Stewards, University of Guelph, York University, Schulich School of Business, McMaster, Trent University.
Life Cycle Assessment for Marketing & Communications
When: November 20, 2013
Where: Toronto
 Special Student & Job Seeker Rate: $ 450 (3 Spaces Remain)
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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.
For those of you who really like to roll up your sleeves, our five-day Sustainability Master Course adds an important hands on element. It includes all the modules in the four-day course plus a NEW Case Study that will challenge you to apply your learning from the previous four days. Participants will work in teams on a real world challenge from a case study organization. They will present to a panel of judges and get valuable feedback. Our first case study organization, for our Calgary course, will be Cenovus Energy.
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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Upcoming Sustainability Training
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