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ISSP Insight
July 2009                                                          Vol. 2 No. 7
In This Issue
YouTube
LinkedIn
July ISSP Workshop
July ISSP Workshop
New Members
News You May Have Missed
Stakeholder Engagement
Life Cycle Workshop
Member Involvement
Book Reviews
Natural Step Webinar
Conference Listing
ISSP Videos
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We've created our own ISSP page on YouTube to upload videos of sustainability leaders. While there's not much there now (we've saved favorites of our Certificate Program instructors), we are beginning a project to interview ISSP staff and board members, as well as others in the field and at conferences. Our current question for folks in the field? What Do Sustainability Professionals Need to Know? Be sure to subscribe to our channel to get the latest update. And if you're on Facebook or MySpace, please share our videos with your friends!

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ISSP LinkedIn Group

Don't forget to link to the ISSP LinkedIn group.This is a great networking site for sustainability professionals. Click on the graphic to go to our group.

Last Chance to Register for Sustainability Planning and Reporting Workshop
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ISSP Executive Director Marsha Willard will teach the next ISSP Certificate Program core class. Learn how to create a sustainability plan and report. Get access to the SPaRK (Sustainability Planning and Reporting Kit) electronic files...spreadsheets for common metrics already set up for you, MS Word template for a sustainability plan.

Class starts July 7 at 4pm Pacific time, 7pm Eastern and continues on Tuesdays July 14, 21, 28. Register now.
Last Chance to Register for Sustainable Community Development: Economic Recovery 101 Workshop
Gwen Hallsmith
Join Gwen Hallsmith with special guest Hunter Lovins and learn how you can take advantage of this moment in time to build more sustainable systems and practices in your community. We'll use the LASER Guide (Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal) to chart a course for your community that you'll be able to put into action at the end of the course. 

Webinars July 7, 14, 21, 28 from 8-9am Pacific (11a-12pm Eastern Daylight Time). Register now.
New Member Orientation
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July 22 at 4:00pm PT


ISSP offers regular new member orientations to show people how to get the most out of their membership and the ISSP site.  Any member of ISSP may join these free orientation sessions. The orientations are conducted via conference call and last about an hour. To register, send a request email to Marsha.
News You May Have Missed
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We have now moved the news headlines of interest to our members to the right sidebar of the ISSP News page. Here are this month's quick links:

Globesity: How climate change and obesity draw from the same roots (Grist)  

Oil industry braces for lower demand for gasoline (Wall Street Journal)

Why the brain isn't green (NY Times)

Carbon Salary Survey (Reuters)

Report on how S&P 500 would fare with cap and trade (ClimateBiz)

Green jobs poised for explosive growth (WBCSD)


Greetings!

Welcome to your new ISSP eNewsletter! We hope you will enjoy the upgraded look and feel of it. With the move to an email service, we will no longer post the newsletter online in its entirety, but will place articles and other content in the appropriate sections of the website. Links within the articles will then take you to the ISSP website. We will archive the newsletters via a Constant Contact webpage. Our older newsletters will remain where they currently reside.

We are opening up the newsletter to the public, as a way to show non-members the value of ISSP in this emerging industry. But be aware that some of the links will require a member login to access the content. This members-only content will be of direct value to you, our ISSP members. Please forward this newsletter freely to your friends and colleagues and encourage them sign up for the newsletter and for membership in ISSP. 

We are starting a new push for membership, and hope to reach 1000 members before the year is out. We have grown quickly on a very limited budget, and we realize that increasing the membership will increase the possibilities of what ISSP can become for our members. You, as a member, recognize the need for sustainability professionals to connect across sectors and countries. By joining you have shown once again that you are an early adopter of innovative ideas. As an association we are the only people with an eye on what the industry can become. Please encourage others in the field to join and help us make our more audacious ideas a reality. If you'd like, you can send out or share the invitation we created.

If you have your own ideas for ISSP, feel free to contact Michelle Hippler, our new Marketing and Outreach Manager. And be on the lookout for a survey that we'll be sending out to members for insight into the direction ISSP should take.

sincerely,
The ISSP Management Team
Stakeholder Engagement: The Role of Participation in Sustainable Development (John Forrester, Stockholm Environment Institute)
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Darcy Hitchcock interviews John Forrester with the Stockholm Environment Institute. SEI recently published a special report summarizing their lessons learned over many years of doing stakeholder work. Read online or download printer-friendly version.
What's New @ ISSP
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SSP Partners with SBEX - the Sustainability Pro Bono Exchange


ISSP is happy to announce a strategic partnership with a cutting-edge new social initiative known as Sustainability Pro Bono Exchange (SPBEX).

Billed as the "Global (Ex)change for Local Sustainability,"  SPBEX was established based on one simple, powerful idea: it should be easy for organizations and professionals to connect and collaborate on pro bono green and sustainability projects -- wherever they are in the world. This is what SPBEX offers. Read more.
Life Cycle Assessment 101 Workshop
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Instructor Tom Gloria of Industrial Ecology Consultants (Boston, MA) teaches the next ISSP Workshop in August 2009. Webinars on Tuesdays at 6:oopm Pacific Time, August 4, 11, 18, 25. Early bird registration ends July 10.

This is an introductory course on life cycle assessment. Participants will learn the steps involved and complete a simple LCA in a business simulation using an Excel spreadsheet. This is a great introductory course for:
  • sustainability professionals wondering if LCA would be a good field to get into
  • sustainability practitioners who may need to hire a firm to do a detailed LCA and need to know enough about the process to manage the prject
  • sustainability professionals who need an introduction to LCA before taking the 'deep dive' into the certification training.
Register now.
Member Involvement 
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Member Meetings

ISSP will focus its next couple of member meeting discussions on issues that are largely considered unspeakable subjects in moving the world towards sustainability. In the July meeting we invite you to join a conversation about money. "Is it morally justifiable to be "rich" in a world of expanding population and diminishing resources?  Is it morally justifiable to take more than your share?" What is real wealth and how can we afford to make all inhabitants of the planet "wealthy?"
 
Join us on July 17 at noon pacific time for this online conversation. Meet other ISSP members and share your perspective.Contact Marsha Willard to register.  ISSP member meetings are offered free of charge.

Member Forums
Get involved with member discussions. See what members are saying in the forums in the Recent Postings section.

Matt Slavin thinks cap and trade legislation in the US is misguided.

Alicia Duncan wants to know who are the big players in sustainability consulting.

'Edwardsm' is talking about the food vs fuels debate. 

Sue Bruning wants to know: Can anyone provide insight as to why more companies are not utilizing roof space for capture/use of rain water?

'Ablake' has posted a white paper on generative leadership.

Call for Ideas
Is there an issue, idea or person you would like to know more about? Darcy Hitchcock would like proposals for future feature articles for this newsletter. She has a few more slots to fill for 2009, so please email her your thoughts and/or referrals.
Book Reviews by ISSP Staff
Sense of UrgencyDarcy Hitchcock has posted new book reviews in the member resource section:

Barbera, Robert J (2009) The Cost of Capitalism. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
 
Carr, Nicholas (2008) The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google. New York, NY: WW Norton.

Kotter, John, A Sense of Urgency
Upcoming ISSP Webinar: August 19 @ 8am PT
The Natural Step LogoThe Natural Step: A powerful tool  for strategic sustainability in your organization
Our volatile economy can limit the effectiveness of our decisions. Real success includes balancing the needs of economy, environment and people.
The Natural Step Framework provides a foundation for creating and implementing a sustainable vision. It can help you define the path that accommodates diverse agendas. It can also help you maintain focus through a landscape of shifting needs. Learn the fundamentals of The Natural Step Framework. See how leading organizations are using it to thrive in uncertain times and to transform their visions of what it means to be successful.
Senior Advisors of The Natural Step will present an overview and address questions from participants. Register.
Sustainability Conference Listing
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Take at look at the upcoming conferences around the world.

17th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, June 29- July 3, 2009, CCH - Congress Center Hamburg, Germany

Sustainability Summit '09: Technology & Productivity for the Low Carbon Economy, July 14-15,  Santa Clara, California

Carbon Showcase Asia 2009, July 21-23, New Delhi

Clean Air and Environment Conference, September 9, Perth, Australia

Cleantech Investment and Innovation Conference,  September 24th - 25th, Rendezvous Melbourne

NEXT-GEN FM: EcoCost Efficient Buildings,  September 24th - 25th, Rendezvous Melbourne

GoGreen, October 7, Portland, Oregon

Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Strategies, 26-27 October 2009, Johannesburg, South Africa