September 2013

Feature Story

Strategic Leadership is a Daily Balancing Act

September 3, 2013

Between corporate acquisitions, customer inquiries and new regulatory requirements, it's easy to get swept up in the daily challenges of managing environment, health and safety (EHS), and sustainability programs. To be effective in the long run, though, EHS leaders say it's important to navigate today's issues without losing sight of the bigger picture... Read more...

Member Spotlight

Martin Wolf

Director of Product Sustainability and Authenticity
Seventh Generation Inc.

Each month, we introduce you to a different member who makes our network so unique! Read more...

Welcome New Members

The following members joined NAEM in August 2013:

Mallinckrodt is now a corporate member
Jeffrey Joaquim, Sr. Manager Corporate EHS with Hologic Inc. is now an inpidual member
John Perkins, Sr. Director Environment, Health & Safety with Tyco is now an inpidual member

Ask the Board

If you knew then what you know now, what would you tell your younger self?

Balancing home, family and job is not an equilateral triangle. I think the expectation when you're starting your career is to work really hard and I devoted a lot of time to my job... Read more...

New on the Green Tie blog

A Strong Internship Program Provides a Pipeline for Success

August 26, 2013

My workplace seems quieter than usual this week. We are just as busy as we were last week, but our summer interns have left us and gone back to school. This is my seventh summer being a sponsor of interns in Exelon Generation's summer internship program. Each summer brings a new group of bright, enthusiastic interns,who inject new ideas, viewpoints and challenges into our daily lives. Read more...

Other Recent Posts:

On the Move

Jean Palmateer is now HSE Manager at H.C. Starck Inc.
Doug Fleming is now leading Global Health and Safety for Twitter Inc.

Welcome New LinkedIn Group Members

The following members joined NAEM's "EHS and sustainability decision-makers forum" in August:

Marvin Glass, EHS&S Manager at International Paper
Marcello Verdini, HSE Specialist at Colombini S.p.A
Liz Sewell, Regional Manager, EHS at Stericycle
Vilmarie Rodriguez, Sr. Director of EHS & Facilities at Ligand Pharmaceuticals
Ryan McMullan, Environmental Resource Specialist at Toyota Motor Sales
Ann Marie Hoffman, Executive Director of EHS at Comcast Cable
Ivan Tomovski, EHS Strategist
Steve Chenghui Lin, Environment Health and Safety Executive at Hyflux Ltd.
William Carroll, Quality of Life Manager at Blizzard Entertainment

Overheard on Twitter

To see more tweets from thought leaders, follow NAEM's Twitter feed @thegreentie.

Featured Tweets:

Green Biz: You're talking to employees about #sustainability wrong http://grn.bz/14P4zfk #GrnBz via @GreenBiz #communications
Ensia: ~90% of S&P Global 100 Index companies consider extreme weather and climate change as business risks http://buff.ly/15Nssrp
Eunice Heath: @neilchawkins Great article in @ensiamedia http://bit.ly/15MkS06 "Corporations operate at the intersections of society providing unique...
General Electric: The checklist for #invention: ✔ Imagination ✔ A pile of junk
ITT Exelis: Exelis corporate responsibility report highlights ethics, compliance, sustainability & community relations http://ow.ly/nHX76
Raytheon: Enabling safe landings in low visibility areas plus other ways we're improving air travel: http://rtn.co/19kcCG3
UL: ISO: Global #occupational health and safety standard on horizon. http://bit.ly/16EJXes
AlexLamb: Sustainability: a CFOs role to manage risk in a resource constrained world. http://lnkd.in/GWGx8D
TraceyJNoe: Innovating for Shared Value - new in Harvard Business Review via @HarvardBiz @svinitiative #csr #sustainability #csv http://hbr.org/2013/09/innovating-for-shared-value/ar/1 ...
NRG Energy, Inc.: Industry trend: More calls for #innovation in #energy, via @forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/pikeresearch/2013/08/26/distributed-generation-poses-existential-threat-to-utilities/ ..."
Raytheon: When being green isn't a sign of illness http://rtn.co/16m1xSM pic.twitter.com/kdfp69Q8Se