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AUGUST 2012                                                                     VOLUME 6 NO. 8           

In This Issue
Project Management: Getting the Job Done
Nominations Now Open for ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame(tm)
Review or Suggest A Good Book
Contribute To Best Practices Study
News From the ISSP Board of Directors
August Webinar: Thermodynamics and the Economy
September Workshop: Biomimicry: Pathway to Innovation
September Webinar: Frances Moore Lappe and the EcoMind
October Workshop: Developing Your Green Career
October Workshop: Organizational Assessments and Systems
Oct - Nov Workshop: Sustainability Event Management
October Webinar: Employee Engagement the Key to Sustainability Implementation
November Workshop: Leadership Skills for Change Agents
January Workshop: Ecosystem Evaluations
Self-Paced Workshop: Sustainability 101
2013 Workshops: A Preview
Featured Job Posting: CEO of Sustainable Development Institute
Sustainability Conferences and Events
 
 

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FEATURED NEWS

ISSP Conference 2013:
Call for Presentations Now Open for Meeting
To Be Held Next May In Chicago

Planning has begun for the next ISSP Member Conference, to be held in May 8-10, 2013 in Chicago. More details will be posted soon on the ISSP Website. The ISSP management team welcomes your suggestions regarding themes and topics to be explored when we all come together next spring in The Windy City.  If you are interested in submitting a proposal for a presentation, contact Marsha Willard for the presenter application form. We'll be accepting proposals for presentations until September 30. 

Nominations Now Open for Next Group of Inductees to ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame(TM)
ISSP has opened the nomination process for the second round of induction of professionals into the ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame(tm).  For more information about how to nominate someone, see the article below.

 

 
ISSP E-JOURNAL ARTICLE:
Project Management: Getting the Job Done

 

Sustainability professionals are known for being innovators, for finding new approaches to the familiar and for creating new products for the marketplace. But all the good ideas and strategies in the world will not do anyone any good unless they can be implemented successfully. This is where the rubber meets the road for sustainability - getting things done. Sound project management skills and techniques are a key element in ensuring sustainability project success.

It is therefore no coincidence that project management skills and knowledge were viewed as necessary for all sustainability professionals in the 2011 International Society of Sustainability
Professionals (ISSP) competency survey. Converting the great ideas into action and results are sometimes where sustainability efforts sputter and die. Succeeding in the implementation of great ideas requires great project management and knowledge. This article by Jane Allen Jones, founder and principal of Sustainability Management Consulting LLC, spells out the project management skills that can greatly enhance your success as a sustainability professional. 


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MEMBER INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Nominations Now Being Accepted for New Inductees to ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame(TM)

ISSP has opened the nomination process for the second round of induction of professionals into the ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame (TM). The Hall of Fame is an honor bestowed upon professionals who have contributed to the advancement of the profession and/or the advancement of sustainability in organizations and communities. 
Nominations are open to anyone.  HallFam Nominate anyone (including yourself) who shows significant contribution to one or more of our six selection criteria. To submit a nomination, just complete the nomination form. We will accept nominations until September 30, 2012.

Once all the nominations have been submitted, the ISSP board will review them, narrow the slate and submit it to membership for comment and then make a decision based on member input. The professionals chosen for induction will be honored at the Spring conference.

Click here to access the nomination form.

NOTE - Members of the ISSP management team and Board of Directors are not eligible for nomination.

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Book Review Update:
Send Us Your Suggestions for Books To Review

We had a great response to our call for book reviewers last month. We continue to receive books from publishers.  We will be contacting all those members that have expressed an interest in doing a book review in the order in which they contacted us.  If you would like to be added to our list of member book reviewers please send your name to Dorothy Atwood at [email protected].

We are also soliciting ideas of book publishers and recent authors that we can contact to for a book review copy.  If you have any suggestions, please send them to Dorothy Atwood at the e-mail address above.

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RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
Contribute to UT Arlington Study of
Best Sustainability Practices

ISSP supports research related to our profession.  This month we invite you to participant in a research

project form the Executive Director for the Division of Enterprise Development and a PhD Candidate at the University of Texas at Arlington. The goal of the study is to identify best practices and standardized measures that can be shared and utilized to advance sustainability initiatives. 

 

Data for this research is being collected via the online survey at the following link: www.surveymonkey.com/s/uta_sustainability. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete and the deadline for submission is August 31, 2012.  

 

 

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NEWS FROM THE ISSP BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
StanleyRich Goode Joins Ernst & Young's Climate Change and Sustainability Service Practice 

After heading up Alcatel-Lucent's Office of Sustainability for the last four years, ISSP board member Rich Goode left in May to join Ernst
Rich Goode
Rich Goode
& Young's Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice. At Ernst & Young, Rich assists some of the largest companies in the world with developing sustainability strategies that build lasting business value, engage stakeholders and mitigate risk. Rich is also a regular speaker on the sustainability circuit and maintains his teaching affiliation with Tufts Gordon Institute  and Harvard University's Sustainability and Environmental Management program.

 

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SustainAsia Expands Into India

 

SustainAsia has opened an office in India.  SustainAsia is a specialist advisory firm based in Hong Kong and has been operating in the Asia Pacific region since 2005. ISSP board member Christophe Bongars is CEO of the firm.

Nitin Verma, partner and managing director of SustainAsia will lead the company's efforts in India. Verma is an environmental and clean technologies expert, with a dual engineering and MBA finance background who lives in New Delhi. His main areas of expertise are design and project management of water infrastructure projects, master planning of water infrastructure for cities and municipalities, business development, privatization of water infrastructure, and specifications and term sheets for developing infrastructure projects on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) models. He is also skilled in origination and due diligence of clean technology projects, private equity investment and restructuring of companies.

Commenting on the expansion of SustainAsia into India, Bongars said, "We believe the Indian market offers excellent opportunities to developers and owners of clean technologies and infrastructure projects and sustainable business enterprises in particular.'

To learn more about SustainAsia, visit www.sustainasia.com

  

Clifford Bast Facilitates Discussions for
US & World Business Councils and
Electronics Industry Citizens Coalition

 

Clifford Bast, ISSP Board Member and Managing Director for Bast SUSTAINGROUP LLC, attended two recent meetings that demonstrate why collaboration continues to prove itself as one of the critical success factors for accelerating global progress on sustainability.

The first example was the US and World Business Councils for
Clifford Bast
Clifford Bast 
Sustainable Development joint Spring Meeting 2012: "Collaborate Today, Change Tomorrow" held at Yale University's Center for Business and the Environment on June 27-28, 2012.  "What's helping us achieve a sustainable world, and how do we scale it" brought close to 100 US BCSD and WBCSD members, government, academic and NGO colleagues, and other sustainability thought leaders to contribute to the working agenda, which stressed collaboration first and foremost in defining directions to reach a sustainable world in which "nine billion people can live well and within the planet's resources by 2050".

Meeting attendees worked on partnerships, synergies and productive work outcomes that combined US BCSD regional implementation strategies with the WBCSD's global Vision 2050 sustainability pathway. Over two days, attendees discussed examples of successful activities already under way to achieve Vision 2050 "must haves"; and sought out ways to help articulate, acknowledge and scale those activities. They then joined forces in an innovation workshop aimed at seeking out and encouraging step-changes towards the Vision 2050 in the US.

Interspersed in this engaging group discussion, including one on Sustainable Consumption which the US BCSD asked Clifford to facilitate, were presentations and panels from sustainability thought leaders focusing on new financing mechanisms, organizational design, new collaboration opportunities, and examples of groundbreaking innovations.  ISSP members are encouraged to learn more about the meeting at the following link:  http://usbcsd.org/operationalizing-vision-2050/

In a second outstanding demonstration that collaboration is a critical sustainability success factor, Clifford also attended the July 16-19, 2012 Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition's annual membership meeting in Boston MA.  The EICC brings together more than 70 of the world's leading electronics companies  working together to improve efficiency and ethical, social and environmental responsibility in the global supply chain.

The Coalition has developed a common Electronics Industry Code of Conduct and shared resources and tools, including Risk Assessment and Self Assessment Questionnaire templates, a  Validated Audit Process (VAP) and Learning and Capability Building resources for members and their suppliers, as well as Working Groups that address diverse topics like stakeholder engagement, conflict minerals, working hours and environmental sustainability.  More information about the EICC, its Code of Conduct and its membership programs can be found at www.eicc.info/index.shtml

You can also contact Clifford about both organizations and events at
[email protected].

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Members, Send Us Your News !!! 

Have you or your company done something interesting lately? Did you recently publish an article, win an award or make a presentation to a large group?  Let us know what you've been up to so we may share it with your fellow members here in our newsletter.NewsLogo
Send your news items to [email protected] 
with the phrase Newsletter Item in the subject line. 

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Join Us
NEXT ISSP WEBINAR -- AUGUST 23
 
Insight from Ecological Economics:
What Thermodynamic Limits Tell Us
About the Economy
with Maggie Winslow, PhD

 

Thursday August 23, 2012 at 11am PDT

Maggie Winslow, PhD will present the basics of an alternative, transdisciplinary field called ecological economics.

 

Maggie Winslow, PhD
Maggie Winslow
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Using thermodynamic limits as the backdrop, Dr. Maggie Winslow will focus on the relationship between the state of ecological sustainability and the economic drivers that can propel our global marketplace, and local businesses, either toward or away from sustainable business operations. Read more HERE.

 

ISSP Webinars provide convenient and affordable continuous learning for busy sustainability professionals. Register for the live, interactive, online educational event and if you are unable to attend we'll send you the recording link.  Free to ISSP Members.  $10 for ISSP non-member site visitors. 

 

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September 2012 Virtual Workshop Biomimicry: Pathway to Innovation...
Learning from Nature

with Mary Hansel, Certified Biomimicry Professional

> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 08/30/12
 
> ISSP Members save $75 anytime  
   

Live webinars Thursdays September 2012 (6, 13, 20, 26) at   

1pm PDT/ 2pm MDT/ 3pm CDT/ 4pm EDT

 

Biomimicry is an old practice and new discipline that emulates nature's time-tested strategies for surviving and thriving sustainably on Earth. Formaldehyde-free building materials modeled after mussels, networks that emulate slime mold, and self-cleaning paint inspired by lotus leaves, are a few examples. A growing number of people are applying lessons from nature's treasure trove of tried-and-true solutions to spur innovation toward creating healthier, more resilient societies.  

 

Apply an elective credit for the successful completion of this workshop towards the ISSP Sustainability Professionals Certificate.  Open to all. 

Read more HERE.     

Mary Hansel

 

Instructor Mary Hansel, Certified Biomimicry Professional, was among the first fifteen graduates of the Biomimicry Institute's two-year professional program with a concentration in biomimicry and business innovation.  

 

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SEPTEMBER 19 WEBINAR
Frances Moore Lapp�
author of
EcoMind, Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want

 

Wednesday September 19, 2012 at 11am PDT

ISSP welcomes Frances Moore Lapp�, author of -- EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think, to Create the World We Want.  

 

Frances Moore Lappe
Frances Moore Lappe
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Join ISSP in welcoming Frances Moore Lapp�, author of EcoMind, for an interactive presentation on her insights and perspectives.  Lappe is a giant of the environmental movement and she confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's... read more HERE

 

About the Author

Frances Moore Lapp� is the author of 17 books and cofounder of Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy, the Small Planet Institute, and the Small Planet Fund. She works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Free to ISSP Members.  $10 for ISSP non-member site visitors.   

ISSP Webinars provide convenient and affordable continuous learning for busy sustainability professionals. Register for the live, interactive, online educational event and if you are unable to attend we'll send you the recording link.  Free to ISSP Members.  $10 for ISSP non-member site visitors. 

                    

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Focus and Design Your Green Career
with  Carol McClelland, PhD. 

> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 09/10/12 
> ISSP Members save $75 -- Anytime
 
Online activities begin September 17th and end November 25.
Live webinars are Fridays: 11am - 12:30pm Pacific Time on September 21, October 5, 19 and November 2, 16.

10 week workshop, $550
Early Bird Discount $50 off ends September 10, 2012.
ISSP Members $75 off always.

Join a Cohort of sustainability professionals to strategize and explore career options with Carol McClelland, green career consultant. This program extends well beyond "green" environmental careers to encompass a broad range of careers that boost your triple bottom line impact through sustainability, environmental responsibility, and social responsibility.

Through a series of practical daily and weekly activities over 10 weeks in September, October and November 2012 you will brainstorm, with Carol's facilitation and coaching, up to 40 green career ideas and then weave together a career vision that best reflects your values, skills and interests. Whether you are reflecting on a career change or are curious about your next steps professionally, this workshop is an investment in your future.

This workshop is the precursor to 2013 Consultants Cohort.
Read more HERE.

                         

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October 2012 Virtual Workshop
Sustaining Sustainability
Organizational Assessments & Systems
with  Dorothy Fisher Atwood 

> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 09/23/12 
> ISSP Members save $75 -- Anytime
 

Dates for Live Webinars:   Mondays October 2012 (1, 8, 15, 22) at 10am PDT/11am MDT/ 12pm CDT/ 1pm EDT 

 

Management systems are the key to ongoing progress.  A sustainability management system allows for systematic internal review, monitoring and corrective actions for continual improvement for your sustainability plan. This workshop will walk you through the creation of such a system to fit your needs.  Read more HERE.

Past participants report appreciating the provided tools of templates and resources, that the workshop was more practical than theoretical and it's based on the system approach.  They also enjoy ISSP's dynamic
Dorothy Atwood
Dorothy Atwood
, interactive eLearning experience by meeting online once a week for a live webinar plus interacting 24/7 at the ISSP Learning Center.   After successful completion of this workshop, you can apply the core credit towards ISSP's Sustainability Professionals Certificate.  Open to all.

Dorothy Fisher Atwood has over 25 years of environmental consulting experience with the last ten years focused management systems implementation for private and public organizations. Her work includes development of implementation tools and procedures, training, and sustainability and environmental management system (including ISO 14001) integration into core business systems.     

                         

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October - November 2012
Virtual Workshop
Sustainability Event Management
five-week webinar-workshop
with  Meegan Jones
  
> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 10/01/12.
> ISSP Members save $75 anytime.     


5 week workshop, $550
Early Bird Discount $50 off ends September 10, 2012.
ISSP Members $75 off always.

ISSP Certificate Participants, $325 (email ISSP's Education Program Manager, Christy Nordstrom   

 

With increasing urgency to address sustainability, how is the event industry facing the need for sustainable production practices while continuing to be a single-serve product?  If you're involved in planning, procurement, production and practical implementation of events, this five-week webinar workshop is for you.  Participants enjoy ISSP's dynamic, interactive eLearning experience by meeting online once a week for a live webinar AND 24/7 over 5 weeks at the Learning Center.    

 

Dates for Live Webinars:  

Weeks 1 - 5:  Thursdays Oct 11, 18, 25 and Nov 1, 8 @ 3PM PT / 4PM MT / 5PM CT / 6PM ET
(Australian time-Friday Oct 12, 19, 26 and Nov 2, 9 @ 6AM WST / 7AM JST / 8.30AM CST / 9AM EST / 11AM NZST)
 

 

Over 500 event professionals have taken this course face-to-face.  Now it is offered as an online ISSP workshop taught by Meegan Jones, an experienced sector specialist/instructor from GreenShoot Pacific and author Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide.  At the conclusion of the workshop, you will be able to articulate the right questions and make informed decisions to achieve improved sustainability performance for your events.    

 

You will gain skills and knowledge in how to: 

  • Embed sustainability into operations
  • Identify efficiencies = cost savings
  • Comply with international standards
  • Enhance reputation
  • Maintain competitive advantage  
Read more HERE.
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Instructor: Meegan Jones, Trainer, event sustainability subject matter expert and author of Sustainable Event Management: A Practical Guide (text for the course).

 

After successful completion of this workshop, you can apply the elective credit towards ISSP's Sustainability Professionals Certificate. Open to all.

 REGISTER NOW>>                        

 

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OCTOBER 18 WEBINAR 
 
Employee Engagement - The Key for Successful Sustainability Implementation   
with Kevin Wilhelm     

Thursday October 18, 2012 at 11am PDT

 

REGISTER NOW>>                 

 

Increasingly companies are realizing that the key to overcoming the "Implementation Hurdle" and truly integrating Sustainability into their company's operations, culture, and DNA, is employee engagement.

 

Kevin Wilhelm
Kevin Wilhelm

Join Kevin Wilhelm, CEO of Sustainable Business Consulting and author of Return on Sustainability, to discuss the barriers to implementation and the how, why, nuts and bolts of employee engagement. He will highlight not only the latest research and trends, but speak from his experience with having worked with over 60 firms on implementing sustainability. He will bring knowledge and stories (both hilarious and frustratingly sad) of both successes and failures around employee engagement for sustainability.  Read more HERE.   

 

ISSP Webinars provide convenient and affordable continuous learning for busy sustainability professionals. Register for the live, interactive, online educational event and if you are unable to attend we'll send you the recording link.  

 

Free to ISSP Members.  $10 for ISSP non-member site visitors. 

REGISTER NOW>>                    

 

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November 2012 Virtual Workshop
Leadership Skills for Change Agents
with Bob Willard, PhD.   
> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 11/01/12.
> ISSP Members save $75 anytime. 

Participants enjoy ISSP's dynamic, interactive eLearning experience by meeting online once a week for a live webinar AND 24/7 over 4 weeks at the Learning Center.   Dates for Live Webinars:  

Mondays November 2012 (5, 12, 19, 26) at 4pm PDT/5pm MDT/ 6pm CDT/ 7pm EDT

 

Leadership Skills is one of ISSP's Sustainability Professionals Certificate core workshops and prepares sustainability professionals at any level in the organizational hierarchy to lead an organizational change to a sustainable enterprise. It connects the dots between timeless leadership practices and how to transform an organization to a sustainability culture.  Bob teaches how to quantify the business case for sustainability strategies.  After successful completion of this workshop, you can apply the core credit towards ISSP's Sustainability Professionals Certificate. Open to all.

 

At the end of this workshop participants will be able to... Read more HERE

 

Bob WillardBob Willard is a leading expert on quantifying and selling the business value of corporate sustainability strategies.  He is also an inaugural member of the ISSP Sustainability Hall of Fame(TM), which was established in 2011 as a way to formally recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of sustainability and to the professionals that serve it.   He is a teacher, speaker and author whose books include The Sustainability Advantage, The Next Sustainability Wave and The Sustainability Champion's Guidebook.  He has a PhD. in sustainability from the University of Toronto. 

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January 2013 Virtual Workshop
Ecosystem Evaluations
with Jim Pittman   
> Early Bird Discount - $50 off - ends 12/27/12.
> ISSP Members save $75 anytime. 

Participants enjoy ISSP's dynamic, interactive eLearning experience by meeting online once a week for a live webinar AND 24/7 over 4 weeks at the Learning Center.   Dates for Live Webinars:  

Thursdays January 2013 (3, 10, 17, 31) at 10am PST/11am MST/ 12pm CST/ 1pm EST

 

Examine ecosystems from the perspective of ecological economics, system dynamics and natural capital investment.  Participants will gain understanding about key concepts and dynamics for understanding how healthy ecosystems generate value, as well as familiarity with methods for qualitative and quantitative assessment of ecosystem dynamics.  Specific focus will be on tools and strategies for designing resource management systems aligned with the regenerative capacity of nature, as a means for sustaining human activity in an efficient and effective manner. 

James Pittman is an ecological economist, professional consultant and educator with over two decades immersed in sustainability challenges and opportunities.  James specializes in creative ways to span interpersonal and technological worlds for innovation in communication as well as design and creation of change initiatives at personal, organizational, community and national scales.  He has served clients including the President's Council on Sustainable Development; the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service; the U.S. Department of Energy, the City of Washington DC, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and... (read more HERE). 
 
James holds a M.Sc. awarded with distinction in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, a M.A. in Whole Systems Design from Antioch University Seattle, and a B.A. in Ecopsychology and Sustainability Education from Prescott College. Read more HERE.

After successful completion of this workshop, you can apply the elective credit towards ISSP's Sustainability Professionals Certificate. Open to all.

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WORKSHOP:  SUSTAINABILITY 101
Instructor:  Darcy Hitchcock, co-founder of ISSP and co-founder of Axis Performance Advisors

   

on-line learningDistinguish yourself in knowing the concepts, frameworks and tools used by sustainability professionals.  Complete four online Modules in ISSP's foundation course in eight weeks, studying at your own pace.

This is your opportunity to go beyond an understanding of the problems.  Darcy's four Modules will help you begin to see how the solutions can weave together to create a better life for us all.  You'll end the course with an exploration about where you fit in the picture and what your role might be in creating a sustainable world.   

 

Dates: Open Enrollment. Register at any time.  Take up to 8 weeks to complete.  

REGISTER NOW>>                        

 

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2013 WORKSHOPS
Looking forward to the
first half of 2013...

 

JAN  Ecosystem Evaluations - James Pittman 

FEB  Stakeholder Engagement Strategies - Susanne Croft

MAR Sustainability Planning - Marsha Willard

APR Sustainability Management Systems Dorothy Atwood

MAY Practical Tools and Methods - Alan AtKisson  

JUN Life-Cycle Assessment - Tom Gloria  

 

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FEATURED JOB POSTING

CEO of Major Sustainable Development Institute

For over 22 years, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) has been advancing change toward sustainable development. As an independent, non-profit policy research institute, the organization engages decision-makers in the development and implementation of policies that are simultaneously beneficial to both the global economy and environment, and also to social well-being. IISD is seeking to recruit its next President and Chief Executive Officer.  

 

View this new opening and others on the ISSP job posting page.  

 

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SeptEventsSUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

 

See details about these events on the Partner Events page of the ISSP Website.      


 

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