Environmental Management

Organizations

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

Canadian Standards Association: Climate Change
http://www.csa.ca/climatechange/production/Default.asp?language=english
Partnership between industry and government to encourage organizations to voluntarily reduce their greenhouse gases. Provides products and services to help an organization measure, report and manage GHG emissions, reductions, and removals for registration.

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 Cleaner Production Network
http://www.epa.gov/oia/techasst/info/cpnetwork.html
US EPA: Designed to help the international community interested in cleaner production find and share information. African Cleaner Production Network; Asia Pacific Roundtable for Cleaner Production; Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention; China Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Program; Cleaner Production Roundtable of the Americas; European Roundtable for Cleaner Production.

Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI)
http://www.gemi.org
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 is developing a set of core metrics applicable to all business enterprises.

Green Suppliers Network
http://www.gsn.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.

Hospitals For A Healthy Environment
http://www.h2e-online.org