2. Welcome to Managing for Sustainability! Linda Clark-Borre, PMP

3. What is a Sustainable Business?  Remain profitable while protecting people and the planet. (3 P’s)  Organizations understand their impacts, both positive and negative, on social equity, the natural environment, and the economy. (3 E’s)

4. Sustainable Strategic Management 1. Life Changing 2. Emerging awareness in American organizations 3. Currently, no rules and upcoming slew of regulations 4. Concerns itself with how organizations are managing the Triple Bottom Line 5. You all represent an educated first generation

5. Elective or Minor?  Only 3 electives are required to graduate with the Minor in Managing for Sustainability  Coordinates with sustainability GE pathway and minor  Rigorous elective that is structured to prepare students taking the minor to be prepared to manage for sustainability

6. Minor in Managing for Sustainability:   Open to all majors   The Minor in Managing for Sustainability is an 18 or 19-unit minor that often mirrors your theme or option. Simply declare the minor with the Business Advising Office. http://catalog.csuchico.edu/viewer/14/BAD M/SUSTNONEUM.html http://catalog.csuchico.edu/viewer/14/BAD M/SUSTNONEUM.html

7. Want a Career in Sustainability?  Learn how to integrate sustainability practices into processes throughout your organization  Learn how to analyze life cycle assessment  Learn to communicate between technical experts  Learn to motivate as a change agent  Participate in communicating new management strategies, models and processes  Understand the assessment/reporting process  Get involved with campus opportunities

8. COB Vision Statement Our vision is to graduate values-based leaders who are committed to sustainable business practices, which includes creating positive change that will benefit generations to come.

9. University Initiatives  The University has added sustainability to its core strategic priorities:  Each generation owes something to those which follow, we will create environmentally literate citizens, who embrace sustainability as a way of living. We will be wise stewards of scarce resources and, in seeking to develop the whole person, be aware that our individual and collective actions have economic, social, and environmental consequences locally, regionally, and globally.

10. University Infrastructure  Institute of Sustainable Development  SSC 460 1. Campus Sustainability Coordinator 2. Associated Students Sustainability Get involvedGet involved Get experienceGet experience Get paidGet paid Get educated with activity not just theoryGet educated with activity not just theory Experience for your resumeExperience for your resume Leadership opportunitiesLeadership opportunities Make a differenceMake a difference

11. What this class is not  Focused on close study of broad problems of global warming, climate change, endangered ecosystems, environmental economic concerns or global atrocities.

12. MGMT 460 is  Focused on what business can do  Understanding sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line  Understanding how to create a strategy  Understanding your own organization or community’s impact on the environment  Understanding how to create change  Understand how to implement sustainable business practices into all facets of your organization in any position  Understand the assessment/reporting process

13. MGMT 460 is  Understanding how contemporary global business must change to secure natural resources for the next generations  Change agency  Effectively working in teams with people of varying perspectives, expertise, and agendas  Understand consequences of decisions made today on tomorrow

14. Mission  MGMT 460 will provide you with perspective and skills that will enable you to become a change agent for sustainability in any position within any organization.

15. Required Texts   Casler, A. and Luke, R. Sustainability Management Certified Professional – Pioneers Study Guide. (ISBN 978-1-4652- 0619-0)   The ISBN is important as the class has a package that includes print and ebook for Android and Apple   Includes test license for SMA certification

16. COB and Institute of Sustainable Development Partnership  Sustainable Consultation of Office Practices  Sustainable Business Partnership

17. Sustainability Management Association Sustainability Certification for Existing Professionals and Students www.sustainabilityma.org Join today!

18. Selling Sustainable Practice  Sustainable Practice at Work Sustainable Practice at Work Sustainable Practice at Work