Thursday, January 15, 2004
Sustainable Industry / EcoJobs
Sustainable Industries Journal - Free Digest
Sustainable Industries Journal NW is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month with a handful of exciting changes. We invite you to subscribe today to sharpen your competitive edge with the region’s first-ever business trade journal dedicated to environmental innovation in core sectors such as agriculture, energy, green building and recycled markets. If you’d like to learn more about what we’re up to, you can also sign up for SIJ Digest, our brand-new, 100-percent free email newsletter. SIJ Digest is a monthly no-frills wrap-up of highlights from the most recent issue of Sustainable Industries Journal, plus a source for unpublished content, special offers and announcements from inside the newsroom. Best Wishes in 2004,
Brian J. Back
Editor & Publisher
Sustainable Industries Journal
www.sijournal.com
Sustainable Industries Journal - Free Digest
Sustainable Industries Journal NW is celebrating its one-year anniversary this month with a handful of exciting changes. We invite you to subscribe today to sharpen your competitive edge with the region’s first-ever business trade journal dedicated to environmental innovation in core sectors such as agriculture, energy, green building and recycled markets. If you’d like to learn more about what we’re up to, you can also sign up for SIJ Digest, our brand-new, 100-percent free email newsletter. SIJ Digest is a monthly no-frills wrap-up of highlights from the most recent issue of Sustainable Industries Journal, plus a source for unpublished content, special offers and announcements from inside the newsroom. Best Wishes in 2004,
Brian J. Back
Editor & Publisher
Sustainable Industries Journal
www.sijournal.com
SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainable Vancouver
PUGET SOUND, WA, Jan. 15, 2004 (CIP, by Jennifer Hunting) - Vancouver, British Columbia has been using local involvement as a driving force towards sustainable living. Vancouver focuses on sustainable initiatives including transportation, building development, energy, environment, solid waste and storm water management, and social sustainability. It also focuses on developing new, innovative urban designs starting at the local level. Read more...
Sustainable Vancouver
PUGET SOUND, WA, Jan. 15, 2004 (CIP, by Jennifer Hunting) - Vancouver, British Columbia has been using local involvement as a driving force towards sustainable living. Vancouver focuses on sustainable initiatives including transportation, building development, energy, environment, solid waste and storm water management, and social sustainability. It also focuses on developing new, innovative urban designs starting at the local level. Read more...
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
EcoVersity
Practicing What We Teach
GALT, CA, Jan. 14, (CIP, by Carol Brodie) - There are over 4,000 universities and colleges in the United States. Each year, these institutions prepare millions of students who will graduate, work, teach, raise families, buy homes, consume and produce. Those alumnae will affect future generations by their example and their teachings. And so, their alma maters play an important role in how our society defines its priorities and its goals. Read more...
Practicing What We Teach
GALT, CA, Jan. 14, (CIP, by Carol Brodie) - There are over 4,000 universities and colleges in the United States. Each year, these institutions prepare millions of students who will graduate, work, teach, raise families, buy homes, consume and produce. Those alumnae will affect future generations by their example and their teachings. And so, their alma maters play an important role in how our society defines its priorities and its goals. Read more...
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Turning the Tide on Climate Change
New Years Resolution: Lose That (Carbon Dioxide) Weight With Travel Matters.org
CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 13 (CNT Update) - Why not make a New Year's resolution to lose that (carbon dioxide) weight and reduce your impact on global warming? CNT has introduced Travel Matters (www.travelmatters.org), an interactive, online calculator for those interested in learning how personal travel habits affect global climate change. By submitting information about the city in which you live, the type of car you drive, and the amount of miles you travel per month commuters can instantly determine the amount of greenhouse gasses they are emitting and learn about strategies to reduce their emissions. That so much of the primary greenhouse gas - carbon dioxide - is emitted from vehicles every day by Americans means that individual travel choices have a significant cumulative impact on global climate. For more information contact Lisa McNally at 773-278-4800 ext.129 or lisam@cnt.org To find out the emissions resulting from your travel choices visit: http://www.travelmatters.org
New Years Resolution: Lose That (Carbon Dioxide) Weight With Travel Matters.org
CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 13 (CNT Update) - Why not make a New Year's resolution to lose that (carbon dioxide) weight and reduce your impact on global warming? CNT has introduced Travel Matters (www.travelmatters.org), an interactive, online calculator for those interested in learning how personal travel habits affect global climate change. By submitting information about the city in which you live, the type of car you drive, and the amount of miles you travel per month commuters can instantly determine the amount of greenhouse gasses they are emitting and learn about strategies to reduce their emissions. That so much of the primary greenhouse gas - carbon dioxide - is emitted from vehicles every day by Americans means that individual travel choices have a significant cumulative impact on global climate. For more information contact Lisa McNally at 773-278-4800 ext.129 or lisam@cnt.org To find out the emissions resulting from your travel choices visit: http://www.travelmatters.org
EcoArchitecture & Green Design / Transportation
CNT Collaborates on New Book Examining 1st Generation of Transit Oriented Development
CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 13, 2004 (CNT Update) - The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit Oriented Development brings together experts in planning, transportation, and sustainable design -- including CNT's Scott Bernstein, Sharon Feigon, David Hoyt, and Board co-Chair Hank Dittmar-- to examine the first generation of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects and derive lessons for the next generation. TOD seeks to maximize access to mass transit and non-motorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Transit Town offers topic chapters that provide detailed discussion of key issues faced by TOD along with case studies that present an in-depth look at specific projects. It is a vital new source of information for anyone interested in urban and regional planning and development, including planners, developers, community groups, transit agency staff, and finance professionals. The New Transit Town is now available in hardcover and paperback from Island Press. To purchase or to download the first chapter for free visit: http://www.islandpress.org/books/detail.html?SKU=1-55963-116-3
CNT Collaborates on New Book Examining 1st Generation of Transit Oriented Development
CHICAGO, IL, Jan. 13, 2004 (CNT Update) - The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit Oriented Development brings together experts in planning, transportation, and sustainable design -- including CNT's Scott Bernstein, Sharon Feigon, David Hoyt, and Board co-Chair Hank Dittmar-- to examine the first generation of Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects and derive lessons for the next generation. TOD seeks to maximize access to mass transit and non-motorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Transit Town offers topic chapters that provide detailed discussion of key issues faced by TOD along with case studies that present an in-depth look at specific projects. It is a vital new source of information for anyone interested in urban and regional planning and development, including planners, developers, community groups, transit agency staff, and finance professionals. The New Transit Town is now available in hardcover and paperback from Island Press. To purchase or to download the first chapter for free visit: http://www.islandpress.org/books/detail.html?SKU=1-55963-116-3
Monday, January 12, 2004
Simple Living
About Bruce Elkin's new book, Simplicity and Success
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 12, 2004 (from an unknown listserve member, via CIP) - Bruce advocates (without preaching) sound values, and offers a path to reaching your really important goals (whatever they may be) by a path that is sensible and not difficult to practice. He uses lots of interesting and inspiring stories, and the whole book is arranged around the story of a couple who, after a long history of abortive efforts at changing their lives, achieve a much simpler and happier way of life. I recommend the book highly to anyone who wants to change themselves, and to help make the world a better place. It is available online at: http://www.bruceelkin.com/simplicity-book.html or you can contact Bruce Elkin at: 141 Seaview Road, Saltspring Island, BC V8K 2V8; 250 537-1177. Bruce also has a free SIMPLICITY AND SUCCESS e-NEWSLETTER, based on the principles in the book, which you can sign up for at: http://www.BruceElkin.com
About Bruce Elkin's new book, Simplicity and Success
NANAIMO, BC, Jan. 12, 2004 (from an unknown listserve member, via CIP) - Bruce advocates (without preaching) sound values, and offers a path to reaching your really important goals (whatever they may be) by a path that is sensible and not difficult to practice. He uses lots of interesting and inspiring stories, and the whole book is arranged around the story of a couple who, after a long history of abortive efforts at changing their lives, achieve a much simpler and happier way of life. I recommend the book highly to anyone who wants to change themselves, and to help make the world a better place. It is available online at: http://www.bruceelkin.com/simplicity-book.html or you can contact Bruce Elkin at: 141 Seaview Road, Saltspring Island, BC V8K 2V8; 250 537-1177. Bruce also has a free SIMPLICITY AND SUCCESS e-NEWSLETTER, based on the principles in the book, which you can sign up for at: http://www.BruceElkin.com
Leadership Training / Environment
Communications Handbook Getting the Message Out: A Step by Step Communications Guide for Environmentalists
ONT, Jan. 12, 2004 (The Sustainability Network/IMPACS Environmental) - 172 pages of exercises, worksheets and basic communications theory. Chapters on strategic communications planning, researching public opinion, message development, media relations, print materials and web strategies. To see the table of contents and first chapter, go to "What's New" at http://sustain.web.ca and click through. A professionally bound copy by mail is $25.00 or you can obtain an electronic copy (PDF file) for $10. To obtain your copy, send a cheque along with your email and mailing address to: Sustainability Network, 615 Yonge Street, Suite 501, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1Z5. For more of this issue of the Nexus:
http://www.sustain.web.ca/Nexus/01-04.html
Communications Handbook Getting the Message Out: A Step by Step Communications Guide for Environmentalists
ONT, Jan. 12, 2004 (The Sustainability Network/IMPACS Environmental) - 172 pages of exercises, worksheets and basic communications theory. Chapters on strategic communications planning, researching public opinion, message development, media relations, print materials and web strategies. To see the table of contents and first chapter, go to "What's New" at http://sustain.web.ca and click through. A professionally bound copy by mail is $25.00 or you can obtain an electronic copy (PDF file) for $10. To obtain your copy, send a cheque along with your email and mailing address to: Sustainability Network, 615 Yonge Street, Suite 501, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1Z5. For more of this issue of the Nexus:
http://www.sustain.web.ca/Nexus/01-04.html
