environmental presentation - business sustainability

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Rick GreenManuele Engineers – Adelaide, South Australia

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Background

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What’s in a name?

I ’m probably not the “Tree hugging hippee” you may have expected!

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•Rigging

•Quality Management Systems- 9 years

•Cert IV OHS

• Contract Management

•Project Management

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Quality Systems auditing

Diploma in Business

Diploma in Management

NO Environmental training whatsoever!NO Environmental training whatsoever!

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Environmental issues can be viewed In many different ways

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Effort

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WHAT AM I MEASURING EXACTLY?

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Copenhagen

Photo courtesy Ray Wills

50 Grams – Black Balloon Average home 200,000 black balloons a year1kg of CO2 occupies the same space as a large fridge. 1 tonne of CO2 occupies the same space as a family home and this orange inflatable balloon

Gigaton = 1 bil tonnes

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Seems a lot of effort – borderline onerous

No one here gives a s#%t

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I didn’t have to!

Communicate your footprint and watch the response

Environmental information / awareness through media

The answer was:

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Is everywhere

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You don’t want to get on the wrong side of it

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“I cannot say whether things wil l get better if we change;

what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”

George Christoph Lichtenberg

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DEFINITION OF INSANITY:

Doing the same thing over and over, and expecting improvement to come!

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Helicopter view

Client requirementsCompetit ive edge

Seems everyone else is doing it!

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So what is the C.O.I.?

CONSEQUENCE

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INACTION

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This represents me. Not the

good people of New Zealand!

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“A journey of 1,000 miles starts with one pace. If you are unable to take that pace, the rest is unimportant “– Edward de Bono

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Allocate time

ASI Charter allows you to develop at your own pace

Don’t stop and closet it

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All quality systems require measurement

Small things add up

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You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Copenhagen

Photo courtesy Ray Wills

50 Grams – Black Balloon Average home 200,000 black balloons a year1kg of CO2 occupies the same space as a large fridge. 1 tonne of CO2 occupies the same space as a family home and this orange inflatable balloon

Gigaton = 1 bil tonnes

What are we measuring again?

This is money!

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Then it became to make sense

BUSINESS SENSE

Now we’re talking!

Accounting for sustainabil i ty

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htthttp://www.accountingforsustainability.org/home/p://www.accountingforsustainability.org/home/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMgv011VBh0

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“It ’s not that I am so smart..

I just stay with the problems longer”

Albert Einstein

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Challenges

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Digging into archives

Records

Calculat ing benchmarks

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YOU WANT WHAT!

Organise the incoming bil ls that relate to your EMS

HOT TIP

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Time manage & keep on top

By the t ime your on top you realise it took a small amount of t ime

The rest gets easier!

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So far we have had nothing but impressive reactions from clients when this is mentioned

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Royal mail - U.K

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Reduced operational costs by 11%

Which area?

Office

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Focus f irst on what can be doneASI Charter helps you do this

And offers you support along the way

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O.K. Then so far we have:Saved money

Improved reputation

Value added

Made some posit ive steps towards sustainabil i ty

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There is also another benefit that many organisations are not aware of!

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ORGANISATIONAL PRIDE =Staff retention $$$

Improved culture

Morale

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Source “Cracking the corporate culture code” -Steve Simpson

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Simplif ies the process by mapping it out for you!

Lets you operate at your own pace!

Is far cheaper than other accreditat ion costs!

Provides support along the way!

Offers fr iendly, helpful audit process!

Green star building point!

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