Becoming Green (or Greener) in your Workplace: Moving Past the Simple Steps
| Presenter: | Anca Novacovici, Founder and president of Eco-Coach, Inc |  |
| Date: | 16 December 2009 | |
| Time: | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m ET | |
| Price: | No Charge for SLA Members | |
 |
Seminar Description
You and your organization have taken some simple steps to "go green" and would like to move to the next level, but you aren’t quite sure what that entails. You may even have created a "green team" or assigned a "green champion," but that team or person has had trouble getting others excited about the process and motivating them to change their habits. You’d like to look at green initiatives more strategically, but you aren't sure what trends and factors to take into account.
This session will provide you with advanced steps and methods to move the green initiative at your library forward and get others involved across the organization. It will also pose strategic questions to help you determine how to most effectively move forward. Is it worthwhile creating a corporate sustainability report? Measuring your carbon footprint? Developing a sustainability strategy? How would you go about prioritizing these projects? Which will add the most value?
Who Should Attend?
This seminar is designed for librarians, information professionals and others who are interested in successfully integrating green habits and processes into their organizational culture. This is an intermediate-level course for those who have started taking some steps and would like to learn how to move this initiative forward and think more strategically about the topic. It is also informative for those who have just been introduced to green concepts and would like to more effectively support green teams or initiatives within their organization.
Critical Learning Questions
What additional steps can your organization take aside from the basics?
What factors can stand in the way of going green?
How can green teams or green champions more effectively promote a green initiative?
How can you think strategically about going green, and what does this entail?
Notes
Instructions for accessing the Webcast will be e-mailed to you 2 to 3 business days prior to the event. Your registration is for one computer and one site only. You can host as many people as you like, so be sure to invite your colleagues to learn with you!
* Note: Participants registration limited to 50
Browser Test
Test your browser and operating system by joining a WebEx test meeting.
Click U Presenter
Anca Novacovici is the founder and president of Eco-Coach, Inc., a consulting company that provides services for businesses and individuals to become more environmentally friendly, energy-efficient, and healthy. Clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller businesses and individuals. Anca is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) accredited professional and is on the Board of the Green Building Institute. She recently published a book to help businesses get started on the path to sustainability, entitled "Sustainability 101: A Toolkit for your Business."
Prior to Eco-Coach, Inc, Anca was a management consultant, first with Davies Consulting Inc., and then with her own company, Axis Business Consulting Inc. She has over ten years experience with strategic planning, change management, business process redesign, benchmarking, training and communications. She has worked with companies in the energy, health care, utility, and telecommunications sectors, and with international lending institutions. Her passion for, and involvement with, environmental issues outside of work led her to start Eco-Coach, which combines her management consulting expertise with her interest in green, healthy businesses and buildings.
Anca obtained her Masters of Business Administration in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
RSS
Feedback form
