Still Time to Take the Competency Survey!
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
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
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
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.
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Maintaining Our Email List Reminder
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
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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
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Sustainability Buzzwords: Making Sense of All the Terms
by Darcy Hitchcock, ISSP Education DirectorThis month Darcy tackles the jungle of sustainability jargon, using a pyramid to organize them into a hierarchical order that makes sense. Read article.
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What's New @ ISSP
Follow Us on TwitterISSP 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 ProcessWe 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.
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Leadership
Skills for Change Agents Workshop with Bob Willard
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.
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ISSP
Competency Study Results Webinar with Marsha Willard
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.
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November Member Meeting: ReFraming Sustainability
Friday November 13 12:00pm Pacific TimeJoin 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.
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Sustainability Conference Listing
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