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Sustainability in Business Association Education 2015

Sustainability in Business AssociationThe Sustainability in Business Association will celebrate its 6th birthday this year with a change of focus and a wider business and sectoral agenda.

Included in the new initiatives are;

• An updated website with increased member content. This will include sustainability podcasts and papers from a number of conferences.

• Members will have the opportunity to present at a selection of conferences and have their business papers published internationally with an ISBN number. Academic papers will also have the option of peer reviewing before publication.

• Sustainability streams and access to member rates will be available at the following affiliated conferences;
o Australian Liveable Cities Conference – Melbourne (stream dedicated to sustainability practitioners)
o Australian and New Zealand Disaster & Emergency Management Conference – Gold Coast
o Australian Regional Development Conference – Albury /Wodonga
o 8th International Urban Design Conference – Brisbane
o Developing Northern Australia Conference – Townsville

• The Association will also launch a “One Day Sustainability Meeting” series in Melbourne and Sydney, to facilitate the publication of member’s papers internationally.

• Members are encouraged to submit articles (minimum 400 maximum 600 words) for the Association Blog which has an average of 3700 readers per month. Each new story will also be heavily promoted on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

We will work with and encourage both State and Federal Governments to recognise the importance of the sector to the national economy.

Thanks to ongoing support from our business partners the Association will not charge any membership fees in 2015/16.

Lend your support to these initiatives and join now http://goo.gl/yz2cjg

The Sustainability Conference – join us in Melbourne in 2013

Two Conferences – One Destination

The national Sustainability Conference “Sustainable Transformation 2 ” will be held in conjunction with the 6th Making Cities Liveable Conference, in a new era of collaboration, information sharing and professional networking.

The conference is being held from the 17th – 19th June 2013 at Novotel Melbourne St Kilda. The joint meeting brings together National, State and Regional delegates to exchange ideas, discuss Business, Government  and Community initiatives and examine opportunities in the sector, we hope you will join us.

Delegates will have access to an extensive range of topics with over 90 presentations across three days including Keynotes, Concurrent Sessions, Case Studies and Posters.

Day 1: Sustainability –  Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation Conference. Four concurrent streams with a total of 44 presenters addressing the following themes, Successful Implementation of Sustainable Business Structures – Tools and opportunities.   Uncertain Playing Field: the carbon tax, where to from here.   Not for Profit Sector and Sustainability.   Recycling and Waste Management.  Transport and Logistics.  Local Government/ Business Leaders and Sustainable Development: going beyond green.   Energy & Technology.

Day 2: Six keynote presentations of mutual interest to both conferences and two open forums.

Day 3: Healthy Cities – 6th Making Cities Liveable Conference. Four concurrent streams with a total of 44 presenters addressing the following themes,  Community Health: healthy urban design –  connecting people and places – placemaking – population growth.  Food Security: urban agriculture.  Regional Cities: interconnectivity – technology – transport.  Urban Landscapes: public spaces – natural resource management.  Working with Climate Change: energy consumption – generation and other challenges.  Government and  Business Leadership: education for behaviour change.

www.sustainabilitybusiness.com.au   www.liveablecities.org.au   www.healthycities.com.au

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

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Ian Berry

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 his presentation.

Online Registration is available on the conference website.

Special Early bird Registration ($675) is available to members of the following organisations;

* Association for Sustainability in Business Inc.
* The International Society of Sustainability Professionals
* The Sustainable Energy Association
* The Australian Association for Environmental Education
* Local Government and Shires Associations
* Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Free wireless internet will be available to all delegates, sponsors, exhibitors and presenters at the conference and free broadband internet access in accommodation rooms. This will assist with B2B information exchange and networking.

Full registration also includes all sessions, morning teas, lunches, afternoon teas, conference materials including handbook and the ‘Welcome’ networking cocktail function.

I hope to meet you in May.

Knd regards

Angrela Green
Association Secretariat
The Association for Sustainability in Business Inc
Phone: (61 7) 5502 2068 | Fax: (61 7) 5527 3298

” Sustainability is the single biggest business opportunity of the 21st century.” – Will Day, chairman of the UK’s Sustainable Development Commission

What the papers say about carbon tax

Source AAP

THE government’s clean energy plan contains some costly compromises, but retains its integrity by respecting fiscal discipline, acknowledging that adjustment must be gradual and recognising that the market should eventually set the carbon price, The Australian says in its editorial today.

The bottom line is that targets can only be met through innovation. We must find cheaper ways to produce energy, and more efficient ways of consuming it.

Providing the incentive to invest in research and development will allow Australia to determine its own destiny in a carbon-constrained world. And the built-in incentives that a price on carbon will deliver will encourage businesses to find smarter ways of doing more with less.

Despite the package’s redeeming qualities, Prime Minister Julia Gillard faces the fight of her political life to convince voters of its benefits. Breaking an election promise to embark on this course has put her political capital into deficit, and seeking parliamentary endorsement before securing a popular mandate is an error of judgment voters will find hard to forgive.

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Corporate understanding of ecosystem services

The reliance organizations have on ecosystem services such as clean water, air, climate, timber, fibres, food and genetic resources is fundamentally an element of corporate risk and strategy that is often overlooked.

Where traditional environmental management examines the impact the organization has on the environment, the idea of ecosystem services is novel in the sense that it is also concerned with the impact the environment has on the organization.

We surveyed corporate managers in the Australian resources and infrastructure sectors and found that most are ill-equipped to address ecosystem services as a strategic aspect of long-term organizational sustainability. A high proportion of respondents indicated that their organization has both the awareness and capacity to address ecosystem service issues. However, this contradicts previous research which suggests that it is unlikely that organizations implement strategies to secure access to multiple ecosystem services.

The results of this research indicate that corporate managers’ distinguish ecosystem services as a concern that transcends environment departments. This suggests that organizational culture has a role to play in fostering an environment where the management of ecosystem services is integrated across a range of business activities.

However, we also found that environment and sustainability managers are not empowered to enact the organizational transformation that is required to achieve holistic ecosystem management.
 
Kristine Dewar, Business Sustainability Analyst, Carbon House

“Taking Care of Business: Sustainable Transformation” The Conference

15th& 16th September  – Radisson Resort, Gold Coast, Australia