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« Tuesday February 09, 2010 »
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GRI Course for Sustainability Reporting Start: 8:00 am End: 5:00 pm For more info and to register for this course, visit http://www.brownflynnlearning.com/training.asp BrownFlynn Learning's signature course, The GRI Process, provides attendees with a comprehensive overview of: Reporting an organization's environmental, social and economic policies - often establishing or enhancing a company's sustainability strategy. The synergies between the "3Ps" (people, planet and profit) and how to identify an organization's major impacts in each category How those synergies can inform daily behavior and decision-making for sustainability How to establish meaningful and measurable sustainability goals consistent with global best practice How to collect data in order to measure progress, creating a repository of information affecting future goal-setting and sustainability reporting How to create a transparent and effective sustainability report according to GRI standards How to develop a report following both GRI Guidelines and the United Nations Global Compact's (UNGC) Communication on Progress requirement The GRI Certified Training Program is aimed to prepare participants to know and coordinate the GRI-G3 Process, and is best suited to those new to the GRI Framework. This program will not prepare participants to become experts on the GRI-G3 technical content. Participants are required to complete 16 hours of training, and will receive the certificate of completion from GRI and BrownFlynn Learning after sucessfully finishing the course. RTA Board of Trustees committee meetings Start: 9:00 am End: 11:00 am RTA Board of Trustees committee meetings Board Room Root-McBride Building 1240 West 6th Street Cleveland, OH 9am until 11am More information: http://www.riderta.com/ar_organization-board.asp Lube Stop President to Speak at Tri-C West on Sustainability Start: 12:00 pm End: 1:00 pm Lube Stop, Inc. President, Thomas Morley will speak at Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) Western Campus, located at 11000 Pleasant Valley Road, on Tuesday, February 9 at 12 p.m. in the North End of the Student Services Building. His presentation, “Sustainable Innovation,” will last for approximately 45 minutes. Farmland protection methods program Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:30 pm Conservation experts will be available to talk to farmers and others interested in preserving their property at a free program on Feb. 9 at Hiram College. "Protect Your Farmland" will be presented at 6 p.m. at the college's second-floor Kennedy Center Ballroom, 11730 Garfield Road, Hiram. You can learn if you are eligible for one of the programs available to preserve, protect and enhance your farmland. Topics to be discussed include Agricultural Security Areas, the Agricultural Easement Purchase Program, donating easements and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. Refreshments will be served starting at 5:30 p.m. The program is sponsored by the Ohio Department of Agriculture, The Countryside Conservancy, Western Reserve Land Conservancy, Western Reserve Resource Conservation and Development Council, Portage County Regional Planning Commission, and Hiram College. For more information, call Scott Hill at (440) 773-5582. Urban Innovators speaker series Start: 6:30 pm End: 8:30 pm Chuck Bohl, director of the Graduate Program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, speaking about “Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages.” Part of the Urban Innovators speaker series presented by the University Park Alliance in Akron. Free an open to the public. To reserve a seat, call 330-972-8859 or email julie2@uakron.edu.