Sustainability Professionals and the World Around Them
It is axiomatic that environmental sustainability is a global affair. Climate change, species extinction, pollution, and the supply chains pressuring the planet’s ability to provide humanity with goods and services all share a single defining characteristic: they care not a whit for national boundaries. Decisions and the environmental impacts of those decisions are now separated by hundreds, even thousands of miles. They are likewise both linked to and separated by culture, language, perspectives, and governance. Global education For practitioners of environmental sustainability, there… Read More
Identity. Hah! What is it Good For? Absolutely Something.
I, like many others I know, are struggling to make sense of the what appears to be an inexorable slide towards a viciously divided USA, driven, it seems, in large part by identity politics pitting a version of ethnonationalism against a version of cosmopolitanism. This USA is not only increasingly politically hamstrung, where even minor policy decisions warrant a full-throated war and where every sword is worth falling on, the rancor trickles down to friends and family, who a decade or so… Read More
More in Morroco
Being in Morocco this week for the United Nations COP22 climate conference is an opportunity to witness a coming together of people from all over the world, all concerned with climate change. Individuals, NGOs, governments, and the private sector. That last group is one of the most interesting. Companies and start-ups are here to demonstrate and develop the value propositions that exist in solvingclimate change. Let that sink in—there is money to be made in addressing the most daunting global challenge of our era. Serving on… Read More
Despair and Inspiration
[The following remarks were delivered at the November 2016 XMNR X17-Cohort meeting.] I wanted to share a few words with all of you following the results of the presidential election just two days ago. I imagine that sounds a bit funereal, a bit maudlin. I struggled with what to say, given that there are people in this room that I’m sure voted on opposing sides. But I thought it important, as Center Director, that I say my piece. It appears from the county-by-county election… Read More
XMNR Alumni Peter Burke Leads ISO Environmental Standards Course with QMII
We are pleased to announce that one of our XMNR Alumni, Peter Burke, has developed in partnership with on-line learning site, QMII University (QMII) an Introduction to ISO Environmental Standards web course. This new course, Introduction to ISO Environmental Standards, is offered on the QMII website and covers new ISO standards, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 9001:2015 and the application of those requirements to environmental management. The International Standards Organization (ISO) system is used to set requirements for standards used in the production of… Read More
Sustainability Professionals and the World Around Them
It is axiomatic that environmental sustainability is a global affair. Climate change, species extinction, pollution, and the supply chains pressuring…
