The Sustainability Business Management Online Text is a powerful, time-saving resource for faculty and students. With 24 Chapters covering a broad spectrum of Sustainability science, business applications, case studies and the latest information on Global Warming and Climate Change, including self-actuated quizzes to check understanding of chapter content, informative academic and business videos, and with over 330 live links direct to further resources, it is timely by being continually updated to reflect the latest in Sustainable Development.
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Beverly Oviedo is a certified meeting professional and founder of Sustainable Solutions by Design, a company developed to help organizations integrate sustainable practices into their organizational culture.
Ms. Oviedo’s credits are international as well as national. She spent five months in London, England, working with an international team to create workshops on sustainable practices for NGO leaders from six developing countries. As an international speaker, she presented on Sustainable Development at Peking University’s Conference in 2009, which celebrated China’s 30th year of opening up to the world. Recently, she co-authored the online sustainability text, A Meeting Planner’s Toolkit for Planning and Managing Green Meeting at SustainableSolutionsByDesign.com.
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Media Specialist for Disciplinary Association Network for Sustainability in higher education (DANS), Fred is an academically honored and award-winning professor, writer, producer and director in Film and TV. He is equally at home on location, in the studio and in the university classroom, where his students perennially won national script writing and broadcast management competitions.
Born and raised in Toronto, Fred began his career with CBC-TV as a lighting director. He became a camera operator, then TD, and eventually switched from the technical side to become a producer and director. On Madison Avenue in New York, his work in TV advertising can be seen as foundational for much that followed. In Hollywood, Fred specialized as a writer/producer and director on many watershed film & video projects, creating his own production company developing children’s TV, educational, documentary and commercial films and videos...[Read more ... ]
The California State University, Chico, Department of Recreation & Parks Management, class RECR 498, taught by Professor Beverly Oviedo, was designed to reveal the principles of Sustainability to the students registered in this online course of study focused on event management. The instructional method used for this online pilot program was based on the principles of Constructivism. The goal was for each student over the semester to construct her or his own knowledge in the form of a Sustainable Meeting Guide for reference and for potential future use in their respective careers, culminating in a sustainable event revealing the economic benefits, environmental stewardship and social responsibilities necessary for Sustainable Development.
Sustainability Business Management Online Text
First designed as a CD for individual business development, with International recognition and presentation at conferences in Europe and the United States, progression of development has enlarged its scope through availability as an online text including a focus on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. It was the fundamental text for an online course to create a Sustainable Event at California State University, Chico, which achieved the first BS-8901 Certification in North America, phases 1 and 2.
Tony Carey, President and CEO of The Carey Consultancy, UK, stated that the CD was a significant step forward in educational access for professionals through digital means, for “Sustainability is a much wider concept that includes corporate social responsibility.”
Jeff Jiang, Professor, stated “Congratulations to you and your students, Beverly,! It was by all mean a very successful event to the extent that it helped change the attendees’ attitude, career choices and lifestyles positively.”