Transcript ISE Advisory Board Meeting June 2008

The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise
EDUCATION
SERVICE
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE
ENTERPRISE
Bringing people together to learn how
to live and manage sustainably
Alcoa Howmet,
Automatic Switch,
Becton Dickinson,
Heller Communications
Design, Interface, JCP&L
APPLIED
RESEARCH
Johnson & Johnson,
Morristown
Partnership,
NJHEPS, Novartis,
Philips, Ricoh,
Sanofi-Aventis,
Wakefern Foods
Intent: Earn worldwide status as top-20 sustainability institute
Priority Initiatives
Generating sustainability knowledge
Catalyzing sustainability education
Developing sustainability leaders
Enabling local sustainable development
Nurturing sustainable business start ups
Generating Knowledge
& Publications
Qualities of highly sustainable firms (HRPJ)
Worldwide sustainability survey (w/ AMA)
Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook (Greenleaf)
High-engagement workplace impacts (HCM “Effects of High Involvement Work Systems on Employee Satisfaction…”,
Work Environment, Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction…”
“Links among High Performance
,
JCM)
Grant-funded program evaluation –aging in place &
disabled telecommuting (RWJ, Kessler)
Conference papers & case studies
Catalyzing Sustainability
Education
FDU curriculum innovation
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Sustainability modules in UG to Executive courses
International immersion experiences
Service learning courses
K-16 curriculum innovation (NJ Learns project, Cloud
Institute for Sustainability Education)
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Class instruction modules
Teacher training
Developing
Sustainability Leaders
Developing executives to be catalysts &
leaders for sustainability in their own
organizations
Designed/delivering series of AMA
Green Leadership workshops
Designing/Marketing Post Graduate
Program in Managing for Sustainability
Enabling local
Sustainable Development
FDU sustainable-campus outreach
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Encourage/coordinate student-facultyadministration collaborative initiatives –Green
Building, Recyclemania, Climate Challenge,
Green Day, Project Move Out, energy-waste
reduction
Municipal/town sustainability initiatives
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Sustainable Morristown project (Morristown
Partnership, Dodge Foundation)
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Maplewood? Summit?
Nurturing Sustainable
Business Start Ups
ISE Sustainable Business Incubator
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Providing management and fundraising
expertise to new sustainability-enhancing
ventures and social entrepreneurs
Clean technology startups
 Not-for-profits
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Policy engagement, fundraising, and
collaboration with other entities
Organizational Issues
Expanding membership
Increasing fundraising success
Coping with tension between
entrepreneurial spirit and formalization
pressures
Further strengthening internal FDU support
 Completing Business Plan
 Constituting/Convening Board of Directors
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Conversation
Given today’s sustainability climate and
your reading of it:
What excites you?
 What is your advice to ISE?
 How can we best engage you?
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