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The 2012 Association Conference – Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation will be held on the Gold Coast in May.

The Association for Sustainability in Business Inc. is a Non Government, Not-For-Profit Organisation (IA 38885). The Association is not a lobby group, we aim to educate, and keep our members up to date with the latest trends, information, training and B2B opportunities while encouraging profitability and competitiveness. The conference program is available on the website and will feature over fifty (50) presenters. Ian Berry, Sparkenator will open the Conference A sparkenation is a spark that ignites passion that leads to action that changes what’s normal. The author of Changing What’s Normal, Ian will ignite this conference before, during, and after …

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Beautiful and abundant: balancing profitability and purpose to build a green business

By Mr Bryan Welch, Founder and Publisher, Ogden Publications Being green, generates green.  Yet, a lot of human energy is being squandered in conflict over short-term environmental obstacles.  People debate symptoms and solutions, but persistently fail to offer positive incentives for change. We don’t need disaster to motivate change. A great, contagious idea or two can create all the motivation we need.  It’s time to engage human imagination and our entrepreneurial spirit to move forward not just against the phenomena damaging our environment, but also toward a sustainable and prosperous future. Bryan Welch, author and founder of the highly successful …

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Sustainability leadership- what does it really mean to staff and organisations?

By Ms Tania Crosbie, Director, Sustainability at Work Almost 70% of Australian workers believe that it is important for their organisations to behave in a sustainable way*. And they are looking to their senior managers to lead real change. So what does sustainability leadership really mean to staff and organisations? Sustainability at Work believes that understanding current attitudes and behaviours towards sustainability in both the workplace and at home can provide insights and a platform for organisations to promote positive sustainable behavior within organisations. A national study of more than 1,000 Australian workers found that overwhelmingly, Australians believe that change …

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Carbon reduction across food supply chains

What can be achieved if you gather every player in a product’s supply chain in a single room to talk about greenhouse gas emissions reduction? The Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) and Sustainability Victoria (SV) decided to find out in a Pilot study. Ai Group and SV teamed up with businesses from two supply chains to identify the full range of emission reduction opportunities for two leading food products: SPC’s 410 gram can of peaches in natural juice and Bulla’s two litre tub of Creamy Classics vanilla ice cream. The study applied life cycle thinking to effectively target the carbon …

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Key questions we need answers for to find the upsides of any downturn

by Ian Berry © All rights reserved Key questions we need answers for to find the upsides of any downturn is my second newsletter article for this month. If you are a subscriber to my fortnightly changing what’s normal newsletter then please ignore this post. There are 95 questions in this article. Possibly not all will be applicable to you. Your answers to the questions that are applicable, and how you act on your answers, may well determine your future, and that of your children, and their children. You can read the full article by clicking on the title of …

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The Challenge of Sustainability

This is a very good article written by Gael O’Brien in “The Week in Ethics” Sustainability as a global movement has for more than 20 years had an aura of ambiguity, meaning different things to different companies – from PR strategies, to building trust and reputation, to marketing strategies, to being a core business strategy, to inspiring a vision that redefines a company. It has operated both like an umbrella, crowding under it many issues — including environmental, social, and economic — as well as a buffet from which companies, communities, and governments could address that which most directly impacted …

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Sustainability that Pays

The social and environmental benefits of sustainable procurement are clear, but it should not be assumed this always comes at a higher price – indeed the opposite can be true, finds Adam Leach When Prince Charles launched his Accounting For Sustainability project, he highlighted the need for “better accounting” in the pursuit of increasing sustainability in the business world. The International Integrated Reporting Committee (IIRC), which is part of HRH’s project, last month called for sustainability and financial reporting from companies to be more closely linked. It argued “globalisation and resulting interdependencies in economies and supply chains” has left reporting …

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Sustainability Drives Competitive Advantage in Food Industry Supply Chain · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader

Parents – mainly mothers – determine most household food purchases. Questions race through their minds as they navigate the labyrinth of products, packaging and prices. Is this healthy for my family? Will my family like this? How much time will it take to prepare? Can I afford it? How will it impact the future of my children, my family, my planet? The food industry supply chain wrestles with a similarly lengthy list of concerns when gauging the value shoppers place on the answers to those questions… more Sustainability Drives Competitive Advantage in Food Industry Supply Chain · Environmental Management & …

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Turning waste into a resource :: SustainabilityMatters

With landfill sites under strain, can Australia’s capital cities benefit from waste to energy processing? Pablo Perez-Reigosa* from Coffey Environments explains how the technology works and its successful implementation in Europe… Turning waste into a resource :: SustainabilityMatters.

Speak at the Conference in May 2012

The new Association website has been launched, it includes a public forum and links to the Blog.  Please feel free to use both to raise issues or make announcements to our 16,800 subscribers. Links are available on the site. Speak at the Conference in May 2012 If you would like to present at the Sustainability Conference in May 2012 on the Gold Coast, please visit the website and summit a brief abstract. Topics of interest include: Sustainable Natural Resource/Water Management – Sustainable and Renewable Energy Sustainable Waste Management Sustainable Cities and Building Design – Sustainable Food Production/Security Sustainable Investment and …

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