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Developing a practical set of environmental sustainability metrics

Practical indices or metrics for environmental sustainability.

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There is a lot of talk these days about environmental sustainability, global warming, carbon footprints and green house gas. An off shoot of all these “new” environmental issues is the desire to measure them through indices or metrics. In fact, a huge cottage industry has sprung up on developing, refining and re-defining these environmental indices and metrics.
In this paper Norman Wei suggests that the environmental aspects of a company’s operation should be used as practical indices or metrics for its environmental sustainability. Once all the activities have been clearly defined within the operations and have been assigned an overall environmental risk value (metric) to each one, the final result should be either a table or chart showing which specific activities the company should focus in on to reduce the environmental risk and improve its sustainability.
 
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Norman Wei
Norman Wei has over 35 years of experience as a corporate environmental manager and consultant. He brings to his seminars practical experience and real-world insights. From 1989 to 1997, he was the senior corporate environmental manager for Star-Kist Foods Inc. (then a subsidiary of the H.J. Heinz Company) with compliance responsibility for 15 manufacturing facilities worldwide. He has in-depth hands-on experience with all the environmental regulations covered in his seminars: Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and Superfund. In the 1980s, he worked for several major environmental consulting firms in Canada, U.S. and the Middle East. In the 1970s, Norman Wei served on the environmental staff of the U.S.-Canada International Joint Commission. Norman Wei holds a Masters Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Business and Legal Report as well as Pollution Engineering. He is a regular contributing editor for Pollution Engineering and has also written numerous articles for Business and Legal Report. He also writes his own environmental blog. If want speak with Norman, email him or call him at 1-360-490-6828. His company website is www.proactenv.com.

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