Strategic Environmental Management
Web Resources
Academia Links
Illinois Waste Management and Research Center
The center, located at the University of Illinois, is a division of the Office of Scientific Research and Analysis Center. The center helps Illinois industries, businesses, and citizens reduce and manage waste. The center also partners with the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Group.
University of Michigan
Develops pollution prevention educational materials for university instructors and faculty, to help incorporate principles of pollution prevention into existing or new course work, and contains resources for professors, as well as assignments for students.
Consulting Links
Gil Friends and Associates
This is the home page of Gil Friends and Associates, a consulting firm focused on strategic sustainability. This site offers a lot of resources for businesses interested in boosting profits while reducing environmental impact. It also includes resources detailing environmental quality and efficiency and offers free online subscriptions to the New Bottom Line, which features articles on business and the environment. Users can also scan subject lines for past articles.
IndEco Strategic Consulting, Inc.
IndEco Strategic Consulting, Inc. is a firm that deals with industrial ecology and strategic planning in Canada. Their web site provides a good overview to who they are, what their approach is, what they do, and who they work with. Within the site they have included schematics of their projects and approach to strategic planning, as well as publications and other links.
Strategic Management Group
Strategic Management Group, Inc. is a full service management training provider. Their services focus on innovative training and development solutions that enhance performance and foster organizational change, resulting in continuous improvements in organizational operations. The site includes information on seminars, simulations, and online training.
PRé, Product Ecology Consultants
This site performs demonstrations of environmental designs for business and industrial systems available for downloading.
Indigo Development
Indigo is a consulting, research, and design firm helping communities and companies to improve their economic performance through enhanced environmental pretection and management.
Hart Partners
This consulting firm specializes in environmental management, litigation support, international project development, technical evaluation, and markey assessments.
Advent Management International, Ltd.
Advent is a productivity service focused on "do able" programs designed to work in orgnizations and enhance the bottom line.
Transformation Strategies
This page has a great deal of information ranging from keys to environmental success to a book store. The site also has case studies, strategic analysis, and internet links. This firm offers client consulting as well as information available for those just beginning to look at environmental management. They cover many topics including a page on ISO 14000.
Advanced Waste Management Systems, Inc.
Advanced Waste Management Systems is a consulting firm that specializes in all aspects of waste management, but has a large amount of research and empasis on preparing the client for ISO 14000.
Greenware Environmental Systems, Inc.
Greenware, Inc. responds to the environmental needs of business by integrating sustainable practices into their organization. The site offers a good deal of publications on the topic as well as links, and client histories.
Governmental Links
Environmental Protection Agency
The site describes industry partnerships for pollution prevention and waste recycling. In addition, the EPA details some of their voluntary initiatives for business and industry including: Partners for the Environment, the Common Sense Initiative, and Project XL.
California Integrated Waste Management Board
The California Integrated Waste Management Board and California EPA run this site. The page includes online databases, in addition to overviews of non-regulatory programs like the Business Waste Reduction Association, the California Material Exchange, and offers market prospects and company training.
PA Department of Environmental Protection
The Department of Environmental Protection's home page has a pollution prevention site that keeps interested parties abreast of current events, publications grant programs, and enables users to contact OPPCA staff. In addition to the Pollution prevention page, there is also a site focused on strategic environmental management.
Broward County Pollution Prevention and Remediation Division
A county program in Broward County, Florida. Designed to provide public regulatory assistance with a primary focus on pollution prevention and remediation
NGO Links
Northeast Business Environmental Network
This page includes resources for businesses interested in joining networks, performance assistance, and other Best Management practices.
Battelle Strategic Environmental Health and Safety Management
Battelle is the world's industrial scientific and technology center designed to help organizations understand ISO 14000, integrated risk management, Life Cycle Analysis, and Full Cost Accounting.
Tellus Institute for Resource and Environmental Strategies
This non-profit research and consulting organization that promotes equitable and sustainable resource management of organizational energy, solid waste, and risk analysis.
Resource Links
P2 Gems
P2 GEMS is an internet search tool for facility planners, engineers, and managers looking for technology, processes, materials, and management information. P2 lets you search by keyword or by selecting one of four categories: product and industry, chemicals and waste, management tools, and processes.
Software Tools for Process Integration
This page offers software tools for process integration. Users' experience with various software programs is presented.
Scientific Software Group
This site offers pollution prevention modeling software for all types of mediums, including: hydrology, air and water pollution, and bioremediation.
The Expert Marketplace
The Expert Marketplace is a site designed to provide users with over 200,000 consultants. The site offers expert advice, as well as a place to add your firm to the list.
