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Climb The Green Ladder: Make Your Company and Career More Sustainable

Instructor	Shari Aaron and Amy Fetzer, Co Executive Directors, Climb The Green Ladder Shari is a market researcher, sustainability consultant, author and strategic thinker who helps clients identify changing marketplace dynamics and strengthen collaborative relationships between consumers, companies, non-profits and the media. Her work focuses on helping clients to see the value of sustainability and how this translates to meeting new customer expectations and marketplace realities. Shari clients include ClimateCounts.org, CSRwire, Future Media, Hasbro, Kraft, Liz Claiborne, StartingBloc, P&G, OgilvyEarth, The Princeton Review, The Toy Industry Association, UNICEF and Uncommon Schools. Amy is an experienced author, journalist and sustainability consultant. Amy has a Post Graduate Certificate at Distinction level in Sustainable Development and is due to finish her MSc later in 2009. She has the pleasure to work with a range of distinguished clients from the BBC, Green Futures and The Guardian to Hewlett Packard, The Sunday Telegraph and My Weekly magazine.
Date	July 30, 2009
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	Ensure your workplace becomes more sustainable. Have you thought about or tried to bring sustainability to your workplace? Frustrated by small efforts (like changing light bulbs) but not interested in radical methods (like super-glueing oneself to BP headquarters), Climb The Green Ladder can help you understand how to effectively bring sustainability to your workplace. As individuals we have enormous power - and can influence our workplaces to ensure we develop profitable responses to sustainability. All workplaces must protect and prepare as oil prices continue to rise, carbon emissions must be reduced and accounted for, natural resources need to be conserved, workers rights protected, toxins reduced and other sustainable business practices. Be the one to lead your workplace forward! Learn more about the strategies you will need to employ. Listen to inside stories from those who have successfully moved their workplaces to become more sustainable, from London School of Economics, Campbell’s Soup, City of Redmond, The Guardian, IKEA, Boots and more.
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