Insight Masthead
February 2010                                                  Vol. 3 No. 2
In This Issue
ISSP Copenhagen Webinar!
New Members
ISSP on Twitter
LinkedIn
Using Green to Re-Engergize Lean: Featured Article
ISSP Courses
What's New at ISSP
Book Reviews
Conference Listing
ISSP Webinar
The Aftermath of Copenhagen:
What Now?

Feb 4, noon Pacific Time.

Join us for an hour long webinar to explore what happened (and didn't) at the climate talks in Copenhagen and where we go from here. Hear from two experts who were present at the talks.

Our panelists are Dr James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who has been studying and speaking about climate change since the 1980's, and Alan AtKisson, author of the ISIS Agreement and Believing Cassandra, will also share his perspective about the talks in his capacity working on a project for the United Nations.

Register today.
Webinars are FREE to members!
New Member Orientation
Member

February 10 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.
Want the Latest News for Sustainability Professionals?
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Follow Us on Twitter

Twitter

Darcy is now posting all her news items related to the profession via our Twitter account: sustainableprof.

You do not have to have an account to see our Twitter posts.
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!

As always we've got some great events coming up. Be sure to join the conversion in our webinar with Alan AtKisson and Jim Hansen on the Aftermath of Copenhagen coming up later this week. Next month, we'll begin our Climate Professional Certificate and host a member meeting in Denver. If you've been graving in-person networking with other ISSP members, here's your chance. See below for all the details.

sincerely,
The ISSP Management Team
Marsha Willard, Executive Director
Darcy Hitchcock, Education Director
Dorothy Atwood, Webinars Director
Michelle Hippler, Marketing Director
Featured Article
Using Green to Re-Energize Lean
Interview with Ian Young, Insights to Excellence (i2e) Ltd., based in Melbourne, Australia

leangreenby Darcy Hitchcock
ISSP Education Director


Ian Young gets to hang out with leaders of the best companies in Australia. While many of them have been using Lean concepts
to improve their performance, they have found that focusing on sustainability has super-charged their efforts and inspired a new wave of innovation from their employees. Find out why.
Upcoming ISSP Distance Learning Courses
HallsmithInstructor: Gwen Hallsmith, City of Montpelier, Vermont, co-author of the LASER Guide,

Special Guest: Hunter Lovins with Natural Capitalism Solutions (co-author of the LASER Guide)

This course meets on-line on Mondays (March 1, 8, 15, 22) at 1:00-2:30PM PST.

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. 

Early registration deadline is February 5. Register Now.
GHGclass
Instructor: Tom Gloria

This course meets on-line on Tuesdays (March 2, 9, 16, 23) at 12:00PM PST for 60-90 minutes.

This workshop will provide background, process and concrete tools for conducting a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory of a company and carbon footprint of a product. The material presented will provide key context, policy trends, and emerging protocols overview, and then present the entire process.

The workshop is intended to provide a foundation in the main technical issues so students are ready to take on the task of a GHG inventory or carbon footprint in a wide variety of circumstances.

Early registration deadline is February 5! Register Now.
 
April Classes:
Sign up now for the early registration price.

Responsible Purchasing: How Consumers, Retailers, and Manufacturers are Trying to Buy a Better World

Developing Climate Action Plans
What's New @ ISSP
global membership
ISSP Member Meeting

Let's meet up in Denver!


Technology is great, but we still love to see each other in real life. ISSP is hosting an official member meeting at the upcoming Sustainable Opportunities SummitMarch 2-4 in Denver, Colorado. This is not only a great conference, but one that will feature an ISSP member meeting on the morning of March 4.

The conference, sponsored by CORE - Connected Organizations for a Responsible Economy,will offer panels and presentations on numerous topics:
  • Financing Sustainability
  • Alternative Energy
  • Sustainable Economic Development
  • Sustaining Human Capital
  • and more!
Register BEFORE FEB 5th: Early Bird price for partners is $260. Use the partner code: ECAA83BG

After FEB 5th the price for partners is $300 and the partner code then is IA41TKNI.

We hope to see you there!
Book Reviews

Darcy Hitchcock has new book reviews in the member resource section.
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Kegan, Robert and Lisa Laskow Lahey (2009) Immunity to Change: How to overcome it and unlock the potential in yourself and your organization. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.


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Elkington, John and Pamela Hartigan (2008) The Power of Unreasonable People: How social entrepreneurs create markets that change the world. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press.


coverHermosilla, Javier, Pablo del Rios Gonzales and Totti Konnola (2009) Eco-Innovation: When Sustainability and Competitiveness Shake Hands. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.


Sustainability Conference Listing

Take at look at the upcoming conferences around the world.

  • MSWG Round Table, February 1, 2010, Los Angeles
  • Integrating Sustainability into Your Organizational Development Practices, Feb 5th, March 5th, April 2nd, May 7th, San Francisco Bay Area
  • Carbon Emission Management, January 31-February 1, Doha, Qatar
  • Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT , February 9-11, 2010
  • Greener Gadgets, February 25, New York
  • Sustainable Opportunities Summit, March 2-4, Denver, CO
    ISSP member meeting at this event!
  • Sustainability in Packaging, March 15-17, Orlando, FL
  • International Corporate Citizenship Conference, April 11-13, 2010, Boston, MA
  • The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010, April 15th- 16th, 2010, Beijing, China
  • GoGreen '10, April 21, Seattle