Environmental Management

Organizations

Accountability
http://www.accountability.org/
Membership organization that promotes social, ethical and overall organizational accountability, a precondition for achieving sustainable development.

Carnegie Mellon: The Green Design Initiative
http://www.ce.cmu.edu/GreenDesign/
Promotes environmentally conscious engineering, product and process design, manufacturing, and architecture.

Consortium on Green Design and Manufacturing
http://cgdm.berkeley.edu/
Software and other design tools for manufacturing.

Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
http://www.gemi.org/gemihome.aspx
Organization of leading companies fostering environmental management worldwide.

Global Reporting Initiative
http://www.globalreporting.org/
The world's accepted standard-making organization for company sustainability reports. The GRI has developed a set of core metrics applicable to all business enterprises.

Green Suppliers Network
http://www.greensuppliers.gov/
Collaborative venture between industry, the U.S. Department of Commerce Manufacturing Extension Partnership and the U.S. EPA. Works with large manufacturers to engage their small and medium-sized suppliers in low-cost technical reviews that focus on process improvement and waste minimization.

Healthcare Without Harm
http://www.noharm.org
Mission: To transform the health care industry worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.

International Network for Environmental Management
http://www.inem.org
Sustainable business case studies of small, medium, large businesses; download tools to improve your company's environmental & economic performance.

International Society for Ecological Economics
http://www.ecoeco.org/
Nonprofit that promotes the use of ecological economics.

Manufacturing Extension Partnership
http://www.nist.gov/mep/
With offices in every state, the MEP provides manufacturers with customized services on a range of topics with the goal of making U.S. industry more competitive. Services relating to sustainability include sector-specific “lean and clean manufacturing” technical assistance and environmental assessment services.