Insight Masthead
October 2009                                                   Vol. 2 No. 10
In This Issue
Take the Survey!
New Members
News You May Have Missed
LinkedIn
Email Reminder
Sustainability Buzzwords
What's New at ISSP
Leadership Skills Workshop
Competency Study Webinar
Member Involvement
Book Reviews
Conference Listing
Still Time to Take the Competency
Survey!

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Special thanks to all of you who have taken the Competency Study. For those of you who haven't, there is still time. If you qualify for and complete the survey, you'll be entered into a drawing for a one-year membership to ISSP (International Society of Sustainability Professionals) valued at $150, or a $150 credit to use towards an ISSP online class.


If you know of others working in the field who might be interested in taking this survey, please forward this newsletter on to them and invite them to join ISSP.
New Member Orientation
Member

October 20 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time

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 created a separate page for the news headlines of interest to our members. You can access it on News page or go directly from here.

Darcy has compiled an extensive list this month and catagorized them under the following news headings:

General
Economics/Investment/
Insurance
Resources/Waste
Climate/Energy
Lifestyle
Find ISSP on

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.

Maintaining Our Email List Reminder
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Please note that the move to using Constant Contact for our emails, members will be updated every month to ensure we have an accurate list. When a member joins, they will be automatically subscribed. If a member does not renew, they will be automatically unsubscribed.

All non-members will be responsible for maintaining their contact info. This is done by clicking on the Update Profile/Email address link found at the bottom of every email. It is best for everyone to save our emails as a "safe sender" to ensure your emails get into your inbox.
Greetings!

Our survey to determine ISSP course offerings in 2010 will remain open for another week. If you haven't weighed in yet, please do so. The survey will close on October 16.


sincerely,
The ISSP Management Team
Sustainability Buzzwords:
Making Sense of All the Terms
buzzwords
by Darcy
Hitchcock, ISSP Education Director


This month Darcy
tackles the jungle of sustainability jargon, using a pyramid to organize them into a hierarchical order that makes sense.  Read article.
What's New @ ISSP
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Follow Us on Twitter
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ISSP now has a Twitter account: @sustainableprof. Education is a large part of our mission, so we will use our Twitter account to share the most interesting and most relevant information we run across related to the sustainability professional.

We'll also use the account to announce any news in real time. Don't worry, if you don't have an account, you will still get all the same information either in our resource database, or in this newsletter. Follow ISSP! Michelle Hippler (@michellehippler)is tweeting for ISSP at this time, but other staff members may participate in future.

New Registration Process
We are in the process of switching over to an automatic registration program for all our events. You will notice the PayPal buttons are replaced by a blue Register Now button that takes you to the Eventbrite form.

Processing orders will go more smoothly, and the the new system allows you to easily share the event on social networking or bookmark sites. Please share as often as possible, as this increases our exposure to more people on the internet.
Leadership Skills for Change Agents Workshop with Bob Willard
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Join instructor Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage and other books, on Mondays at 5pm Pacific time (8pm Eastern) Nov 2, 9, 16, 23 for a workshop on how to lead an organizational change to a sustainable enterprise at any level in the organizational hierarchy. Early Bird discount ends Oct. 12.

The course connects the dots between timeless leadership practices and how to transform an organization to a sustainability culture.

Bob WIllard is a leading expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies. He has given hundreds of keynote presentations to corporate, government, university, and NGO audiences on the bottom-line benefits of sustainability strategies.

He has authored three books, The Sustainability Advantage, The Next Sustainability Wave, and The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook, plus created a DVD of his presentation, The Business Case for Sustainability. He worked 34 years with IBM Canada, is on the faculty of the Sustainable Enterprise Academy, and serves on the advisory board of the Natural Step Canada. He has a PhD in sustainability from the University of Toronto. See www.sustainabilityadvantage.com for more information about him and his resources for sustainability champions.
 
This course counts as a core requirement in the ISSP Sustainability Certificate Program.

Register now.
ISSP Competency Study Results Webinar with Marsha Willard
Competencies

LAST CHANCE!
Only 8 spots left!

Join ISSP Executive Director Marsha Willard on October 14 @ 9:00am Pacific Time as she unveils the early findings of the ISSP Competency Study.

This event is FREE for members. Non-members pay $25. Register.
Member Involvement 
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Member Forums
Get involved with member discussions. See what members are saying in the forums in the Recent Posts section.

mhippler has posted a white paper by Deloitte on the tax implications of possible US cap and trade regulations.

mhippler has posted a white paper how"Social Media Advances the Sustainability Dialogue."

Gelia posted a question:  What area of sustainability is C-level most concerned with or focused on?.

JamesUre posted a link to show the "Expanding Sustainability market: Commercial Real Estate consulting."

November Member Meeting:
ReFraming Sustainability
Friday November 13
12:00pm Pacific Time


Join your fellow members via teleconference to discuss the topic of "Reframing Sustainability."

Recent elections and national debates about topics such as health care, welfare and the war in the Middle East has taught us how influential language is in the way we describe issues and our positions on them. In this November meeting we will explore "framing" and how those of us in the field of sustainability might better use it to forward the cause. How can sustainability be "reframed" so it moves away from a fringe movement and resonates with more of the public? If reframed, how could sustainability make sense to powerful constituencies like congress, big business, the faith community, and others?
 
Join us for this online conversation. Meet other ISSP members and share your perspective.
 
ISSP member meetings are offered FREE of charge to members only and conducted via our conference line. Contact Marsha Willard to register for the meeting.
Book Reviews 
Darcy Hitchcock has new book reviews in the member resource section.
sustainability thinking

Doppelt, Bob (2009) The Power of Sustainable Thinking. Earthscan: London, UK.




green businessFriend, Gil (2009) The Truth about Green Business. Upper Saddle River, NJ: FT Press.


ecology



Molles, Manuel (2008) Ecology: Concepts and Applications (Fifth Edition). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Sustainability Conference Listing
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Take at look at the upcoming conferences around the world.

Strategic Sustainability for Leaders, October 13-15, Portland, November 18-20, Chicago

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

ASA Chicago: Corporate Climate Regulation (formerly Corporate Climate Response), October 27-28, Chicago

Leading and Learning for Sustainability,  November 18-19,Washington DC

ASA - Corporate Water Footprinting: 2-3 December 2009, San Francisco

Carbon Emission Management, January 31-February 1, Doha, Qatar

Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT , February 9-11, 2010