iso14000-digest Thursday, August 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 056
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:35:43 -0300
From: "Macarena Ortega"
Subject: Thank you
Dear listers,
Thanks to all of you who gave me information about corporate
environmental policies. Now I have enough to write a book!!!
Macarena Ortega
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: Re: [Fwd: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)]
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 16:12:51 +0200
From: "Prof. Walter Leal Filho"
Subject: Query
Dear All,
A colleague from Slovakia wants to know of any university or HEI where
ISO 14001 has been
implemented or is being implemented? He would very much need such a
contact and I would be personally interested on this information as
well, since we are
setting-up a new journal. Perhaps someone could get back to me and to
Geza (gmtkg@tuke.sk)
as well on this one? Thanks.
Yours,
- --
Prof Walter Leal Filho
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 07:59:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: Non-member submission from [Alexander Damerow ] (fwd)
NOTE: A posting from a subscriber to the ISO14000 Digest list. Being a
subscriber to one list does not grant posting privileges to the other
list. :/ Please respond to the poster at his email address below, not to
the list or to me.
Bill
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 03:37:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alexander Damerow
Subject: Requirements for an environmental standard
Dear interested listeners,
i follow the iso 14000 list now for a while and found some interesting
threads in here.
Maybe some of you can help me to fill up my thesis with some ideas on the
standard.
My questions are the following:
(The first two questions are my main problems at the moment.)
1. What influence had interest groups on the development or revision of the
standard ?
2. What requirements should a environmental standard have? (from company
and its stakeholders point of view?)
3. What are the main weak points in the standard ?
4. What action should be taken in revisions?
5. How do you see the future development in this standard?
6. Are there any free studies on the above mentioned points available?
Anybody should feel free to give me his/her comments on one or more of the
above questions.
Thank you very much for your comments.
Best regards
Alexander Damerow
University of Technology Dresden (Germany)
damerow@lcs.com.hk
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:12:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: Non-member submission from ["Nik Zafri Abdul Majid" ] (fwd)
Folks:
It's coming from YOUR hotmail account posting. I sent a message to the
entire ISO14000 list yesterday, telling what it is and the fact that,
since it originates on HOTMAIL's site, there's nothing I can do about it.
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of these "duplicate posting" incidents. All of them have come from posts
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I can't fix problems that are not on one of MY servers; I wish I could,
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From: "Nik Zafri Abdul Majid"
To: d.j.sparks@x400.icl.co.uk
Cc: iso14000@quality.org
Subject: Re: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:43:28 MYT
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Dear Dave
I'm having the same problem as well...I don't know where is it coming
from....really...can someone help us in this.....
????
Nik
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From: Dave Sparks
To: nzafri@hotmail.com, nikzafri@tm.net.my
Subject: Re: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:23:25 +0100 (BST)
Your message to iso14000@quality.org seems to be looping - I've received it
several times.
If you can fix the problem, and mail the list to say you've fixed it,
before the USA gets to work in a few hours time, you may stave off a lot
of flak.
(Please don't mail to the list again before the problem is fixed!)
I attach a copy of what I received, since this may help you find the
problem.
Dave Sparks
> From owner-iso14000@quality.org Mon Aug 9 10:11:36 1999
> X-Authentication-Warning: cyberq.quality.org: majordom set sender to
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> From: "Nik Zafri Abdul Majid"
> To: lennart@piper.se
> Cc: iso14000@quality.org
> Subject: Re: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)
> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 15:33:05 MYT
> Sender: owner-iso14000@quality.org
>
> Dear sir
>
> Many thanks for your assistant giving us the link. It has proven
useful....
>
> Regards.
>
> Nik Zafri Abdul Majid
> Regd. Assessor, Consultant, Trainer, Columnist
> DIBM/BBM MIQM,MIQA,MMIM,MCNI,IRCA/EARA
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Date: 7 Jul 1999 06:19:20 -0000
From: rita
Subject: From: rita
Dear friends, =
This is B=E1nfi Rita from AIESEC-Hungary. =
Hereby I present you an opportunity to become a member in a global networ=
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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 22:15:03 -0400
From: "Phil McCreight"
Subject: Re: Lead Auditor Courses
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thanks
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:23:44 -0500
From: "David L. Turner"
Subject: Re: Env'tal aspects...
I can think of many similar products, process, and
services in wholesalers that manufacturers would need to
consider. Electricity use, water use, forklift battery
charging and disposal, truck maintenance, chemical spills
from stored/sold/transferred materials, recycling of
various materals (paper, cardboard, pallets,...), on-site
contractors' aspects, the wholesaler's choice of product
(e.g., offering recyclable vs nonrecyclable material),
and more...
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Sitting quietly, doing nothing.
The grass grows by itself.
Regards,
David Turner
YSI Safety & Environmental Coordinator
1725 Brannum Lane
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
Email: DTurner@YSI.com
Phone 1-937-767-1685 ext. 270
Facmetaphor: 1-937-767-9353
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: Re: [Fwd: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)]
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On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Marci Carter wrote:
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>
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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 08:35:43 -0300
From: "Macarena Ortega"
Subject: Thank you
Dear listers,
Thanks to all of you who gave me information about corporate
environmental policies. Now I have enough to write a book!!!
Macarena Ortega
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 08:21:15 -0400
From: James Mullican
Subject: Re: Environmental policy
The best source for examples of corporate environmental policies is to go
directly to the registered companies and ask for a copy of their
enviornmental policy. Since it is a requirement of the standard that a
registered company's environmental policy be available to the public.
AWM's registered company list is available on our web site, www.awm.net.
Sincerely;
Jim Mullican
Macarena Ortega wrote:
> Dear listers,
>
> I am looking for examples of corporate environmental policies. Do you
> know where can I find them? Any hel would be appreciate.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Macarena Ortega
> mortega@fundch.cl
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 16:12:51 +0200
From: "Prof. Walter Leal Filho"
Subject: Query
Dear All,
A colleague from Slovakia wants to know of any university or HEI where
ISO 14001 has been
implemented or is being implemented? He would very much need such a
contact and I would be personally interested on this information as
well, since we are
setting-up a new journal. Perhaps someone could get back to me and to
Geza (gmtkg@tuke.sk)
as well on this one? Thanks.
Yours,
- --
Prof Walter Leal Filho
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Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 23:52:54 PDT
From: "Koralia Timotheou"
Subject: Re: Beneficial significant impacts.
Even though answering a bit late, I hope I can still be of some help.
Beneficial environmental aspects and impacts are harder to find than adverse
ones because few companies have obvious ones. However, planting trees on a
site, organising - or even easier - sponsoring campagnes on environment
preservation and awareness, are examples of positive impacts beacause they
don't fix something that is going wrong but they are improving on something
(being proactive in some sense). An even more important positive impact for
a design office for example is to make an objective of providing all its
customers with environmentally-sound alternatives to their design
requirements (e.g. low energy consuming machinery, good insulation in
buildings etc.). Consultants can have positive environmental impacts if
they can prove that they advise their clients - and - convince them to make
sound environmental choices, investments etc. Environmental training is
another one.
As to how registrars view this, well, the one that I have talked to gave me
the impression that they are not expecting many of these positive aspects to
be addressed during the initial stages of EMS implementation since at that
stage people are usually trying to fix up all the mess! But later, when
they meet all regulations and further decreases and reductions in emissions,
raw materials etc. become impossible, the requirement for continuous
improvement can only be met with enhancing these possitive enviro aspects.
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Civil and Environmental Engineer.
MEng. ACGI
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 22:04:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: I need information about ISO 14000 (fwd)
NOTE: If any of you ISO14000 gurus care to help Silvia with her project,
please contact her directly at her email address below.
Thanks.
Bill
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 16:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Silvia Martinez
Subject: I need information about ISO 14000
My name is Silvia Martínez Vásquez, My english is not good but I try
writing and schearching information, I am doing a research project on
ISO 14 000. I would appreciate any and all references to datas,
history dates, staditics about ISO 14000 for example: numbers companies
certification on ISO 14000, caracterists economics of companies have
ISO 14000 (size, number employees, invesment for implement ISO 14000)
and others datas or items of interest. I am student in the University
of concepción in chile
Thanks for any and all information can you give me
Bye
Sincerely,
Silvia Martínez Vásquez
Alumna de la Universidad de Concepción
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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 11:35:18 -0700
From: Burton Hamner
Subject: Need green links for E. Europe/NIS
- --- sorry for cross-postings! ---
- ---Please forward this message to anyone you know who can help---
Dear Colleagues
I am putting together a webpage collection of environmental links
specifically about E. Europe and the Newly Independent States including
Russia. The objective is to help firms and organizations in those regions
establish partnerships with North American firms and organizations that can
help in commercial or development projects. Government, business and NGO
partnerships will be encouraged.
Particular topics of interest include current programs now providing
environmental assistance to E.Europe/NIS; environmental information sources
about specific regions or places; sources of financing; local environmental
technology programs; programs facilitating trade (of any kind, not just
environmental) with the region, and other topics that would be of interest
to a firm or organization interested in improving its environmental and
economic performance.
I am most grateful for your suggestions. If you can, please include a
sentence or two about why a suggested link is a good one. I will visit all
the suggested sites. Sites that are not published in English are fine, I
will email them to ask for a short description in English.
Please respond directly to me, not to the listserv. My email address is
bhamner@mindspring.com. Once the website is established I will announce it
so you can see your contributions in action!
Thanks for your help
Burt Hamner
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Burton Hamner
President, Hamner and Associates LLC
Adjunct Professor, Asian Institute of Management
4343 4th Avenue NW, Seattle Washington USA 91807
Tel/fax: 206-789-5499 (call before sending a fax)
Email: bhamner@mindspring.com
Web: The Sustainable Business Webspace, www.mindspring.com/~bhamner
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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 11:35:18 -0700
From: Burton Hamner
Subject: Need green links for E. Europe/NIS
- --- sorry for cross-postings! ---
- ---Please forward this message to anyone you know who can help---
Dear Colleagues
I am putting together a webpage collection of environmental links
specifically about E. Europe and the Newly Independent States including
Russia. The objective is to help firms and organizations in those regions
establish partnerships with North American firms and organizations that can
help in commercial or development projects. Government, business and NGO
partnerships will be encouraged.
Particular topics of interest include current programs now providing
environmental assistance to E.Europe/NIS; environmental information sources
about specific regions or places; sources of financing; local environmental
technology programs; programs facilitating trade (of any kind, not just
environmental) with the region, and other topics that would be of interest
to a firm or organization interested in improving its environmental and
economic performance.
I am most grateful for your suggestions. If you can, please include a
sentence or two about why a suggested link is a good one. I will visit all
the suggested sites. Sites that are not published in English are fine, I
will email them to ask for a short description in English.
Please respond directly to me, not to the listserv. My email address is
bhamner@mindspring.com. Once the website is established I will announce it
so you can see your contributions in action!
Thanks for your help
Burt Hamner
********************************************************************
Burton Hamner
President, Hamner and Associates LLC
Adjunct Professor, Asian Institute of Management
4343 4th Avenue NW, Seattle Washington USA 91807
Tel/fax: 206-789-5499 (call before sending a fax)
Email: bhamner@mindspring.com
Web: The Sustainable Business Webspace, www.mindspring.com/~bhamner
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:43:59 -0700
From: Burton Hamner
Subject: GL: Corporate Greenhouse: Cool Companies
sorry for cross postings. this is a good read.
Burton
>THE NATION
>July 26, 1999
>Corporate Greenhouse
>by MARK HERTSGAARD
>
> This book is aimed at business executives, but
> political reporters may have to read it too,
> now that Republican front-runner George W.
> Bush has decided that global warming is real
> after all. After years of endorsing the oil
> industry's view that mankind's greenhouse-gas
> emissions have no effect on the world's
> climate, the Texas governor and former oil
> executive told a press conference on May 13,
> "I believe there is global warming."
>
>Bush's statement amounts to an about-face on Al Gore's signature
>issue, and it shows that his advisers recognize how much the
>environmental vote matters in presidential politics. When a
>majority of even Republican voters tell pollsters they oppose
>their party's attempts to gut environmental laws, the
>environment has clearly become a Mom-and-apple-pie issue. A
>presidential candidate simply cannot be credible unless he or
>she leaves behind the Flat Earth Society nonsense about global
>warming being a mere theory. At a time when almost all climate
>scientists of stature agree that global warming has already
>begun and even corporate giants like British Petroleum and Royal
>Dutch/Shell have stopped denying the truth, a candidate cannot
>continue asserting that "the science is still out" on global
>warming, as Bush did just a few weeks before his mid-May press
>conference, without sounding anti-environmental.
>
>But a gloom-and-doom environmentalism isn't the answer either.
>The fact is, the environment can be a winner for any candidate
>with the wit to link it to the issue that decides most
>presidential elections, the economy. Americans tell pollsters
>they want environmental protection even if it means less
>economic growth, but the happy truth is that they needn't choose
>between the two. As companies, workers and governments around
>the world are proving every day, restoring our planet's ailing
>ecosystems could become the biggest economic enterprise of the
>twenty-first century, a bountiful source of jobs, profits and
>competitiveness.
>
>Global warming is a perfect example of the opportunities
>available. Corporate propaganda has been remarkably successful
>over the past decade in convincing people, first, that global
>warming is merely a distant possibility rather than an
>observable fact and, second, that any attempt to stop it would
>sow economic disaster. The first claim is now widely recognized
>as bogus, and the second--which has done so much to delay
>progress on meeting the emissions targets the world's nations
>agreed to in Kyoto in 1997--may soon be as well, especially if
>books like this one reach a wide enough audience.
>
>In Cool Companies, Joseph Romm documents in convincing detail
>how such big-name firms as Toyota, Royal Dutch/ Shell, Du Pont,
>3M, Xerox and Compaq are fattening their bottom lines while
>dramatically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide their
>factories and office buildings are unleashing into the
>atmosphere. The corporations are not motivated by altruism; they
>simply recognize that environmentally friendly innovations can
>make money for their stockholders. Of course, capitalists with
>a conscience have long contended that they could do good while
>doing well. Cool Companies, in effect, shows how to apply that
>self-serving maxim to the urgent task of reducing greenhouse-gas
>emissions.
>
>The heroes of this book are the "cool" companies of its title,
>defined as any firm that "cuts its [greenhouse gas] emissions
>by 50 percent or more while reducing its energy bill and
>increasing productivity." The author served as an Assistant
>Secretary of Energy during the Clinton Administration, directing
>the DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and
>in that capacity he was able to study and work closely with many
>of the companies profiled in this book (which may explain why
>he passes so lightly over certain aspects of global warming
>policy, including the potential for an increase in US automobile
>fuel efficiency--the single most powerful step against global
>warming the federal government could take). In any case, Romm's
>hands-on experience with innovative firms enables him to provide
>the specific cost and investment data craved by the business
>executives who are his target audience, while also anticipating
>their skepticism toward his recommendations. Some caution about
>the accuracy of the data is warranted, since much of it was
>self-reported by the firms profiled. But as success story
>follows success story in Cool Companies, the accumulation of
>evidence should be enough to persuade all but the most
>determined polluter to change his ways, and for his own
>financial benefit.
>
>Cool Companies begins with the story of Aaron Feuerstein, the
>Massachusetts business executive who attracted national media
>attention when his Malden Mills textile factory burned down in
>1995. Feuerstein famously refused to seize on the blaze as an
>excuse to relocate to a low-wage zone overseas; even more
>remarkable, he also continued to pay all 3,000 of his workers
>while rebuilding the plant. Impressed by Feuerstein's decency,
>Romm asked his DOE colleagues to see how they might assist the
>company. Two years after the fire, Romm was pleased to attend
>the groundbreaking ceremony for the rebuilt Malden Mills
>factory, complete with a new, super-efficient natural-gas
>turbine that would provide the plant with both electricity and
>steam, a process known as co-generation. When Romm asked
>Feuerstein why he had focused on making environmental
>improvements at the very time he was trying to save his company
>from bankruptcy, the executive replied, "Over the long-term, it
>is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment
>than to pollute it."
>
>That philosophy is the central message of Cool Companies, and
>for most of the firms the book describes, the extra profits come
>from improving energy efficiency. The point of energy efficiency
>is not to do without, but to do more with less. Toyota Auto Body
>of California, for example, a facility in Long Beach that
>manufactures and paints the rear deck of Toyota pickup trucks,
>was consuming 2.5 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity
>in 1991. By 1996 the plant had doubled its production volume
>while cutting its electricity consumption by one-third, to 1.7
>million kWh, thanks to a comprehensive set of efficiency
>improvements, including better motors, lighting and air
>compressors. Toyota implemented these changes to improve product
>quality, not the environment, but Romm maintains that such
>"lean" initiatives tend to have green consequences: Reducing
>energy inefficiency reduces waste of all kinds, from defectively
>painted trucks to unnecessarily high electricity bills.
>Greenhouse-gas emissions and other forms of pollution, Romm
>suggests, are but physical manifestations of inefficient
>production processes and should be as abhorrent to corporate
>managers as they are to Greenpeace militants.
>
>Of course, the single biggest cost facing most corporations is
>the wages, salaries and other expenses associated with
>maintaining a competent, productive work force. But here too,
>writes Romm, it pays to do the right thing environmentally.
>Designing buildings so that sunshine rather than electric light
>provides most of the illumination obviously reduces energy use,
>but its real value lies in how much labor productivity
>increases. "In a typical building, energy costs average
>$1.50-$2.50 per square foot, while salaries exceed $200 per
>square foot," writes Romm. "That's why productivity savings
>dwarf energy savings."
>
>Consider the case of VeriFone, a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary that
>manufactures credit-card-verification machines. When VeriFone
>renovated a 76,000-square-foot facility in Costa Mesa,
>California, it chose a natural-light design that helped reduce
>energy consumption 60 percent. But the natural light made the
>plant's workers feel so much better--no more end-of-the-day
>headaches and drowsiness--that productivity also climbed 5
>percent and the absentee rate dropped an astonishing 45 percent.
>As a result, an investment that the company expected to pay for
>itself in seven years was recouped in less than twelve months.
>
>Energy efficiency may not sound like much of a rallying cry for
>the environmental revolution, but there is no denying that it
>packs an impressive financial punch. On the basis of the more
>than fifty real-world examples assembled in Cool Companies, Romm
>contends that most individual firms can cut their greenhouse-gas
>emissions in half while enjoying "a return on investment that
>can exceed 50 percent and in many cases 100 percent."
>
>Romm argues that inadequate information is the main reason that
>relatively few US companies have so far embraced a "cool"
>strategy; most corporate managers are simply unaware of how much
>money they could be saving. But if "any significant fraction of
>U.S. companies became cool," he suggests, the United States
>"would be able to meet the Kyoto [emissions] targets while
>lowering the nation's annual energy bill by tens of billions of
>dollars and accelerating economic growth through productivity
>gains."
>
>Sounds pretty good, doesn't it? But if the great value of Romm's
>book lies in its can-do message, its weakness lies in his
>reluctance to acknowledge the limits of the strategy he
>propounds. Promising to meet the Kyoto targets is all very well,
>but it is woefully inadequate to the real challenge facing us.
>The Kyoto treaty calls for industrialized nations to reduce
>their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2012 by approximately 6
>percent compared with 1990 levels; but the Intergovernmental
>Panel on Climate Change of the UN has concluded that emissions
>must decline by 50 to 70 percent if humanity is to avoid the
>most severe effects of climate change, including a one-meter
>rise in global sea levels by 2100, which would leave large parts
>of New York, Amsterdam, Bombay and Shanghai underwater.
>
>Like it or not, there is more to fighting global warming than
>increasing corporate efficiency; what a given corporation
>produces in the first place matters profoundly. Romm heaps page
>after page of praise on Toyota and Royal Dutch/Shell for
>dramatically reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released
>from their factories and office buildings, but he says barely
>a word about the incomparably larger amount of greenhouse gases
>released when the cars Toyota so efficiently produces are filled
>with Shell's gasoline and driven back and forth across the
>American landscape.
>
>Motor vehicles currently account for nearly 40 percent of
>America's greenhouse-gas emissions. As long as those vehicles
>continue to be powered by gasoline and driven increasing numbers
>of passenger miles every year, it matters little how
>energy-efficient the factories that manufacture them are. Yes,
>it is welcome news that Shell has promised to invest $500
>million in renewable energy over the next five years and that
>it has left the Global Climate Coalition, an industry front
>group that has long delayed progress by claiming that global
>warming is little more than environmental propaganda. It's also
>nice to know that Ford is working with DaimlerChrysler to
>produce a fuel-cell-powered car whose only exhaust will be
>climate-friendly water vapor. But the bulk of Shell's immensely
>profitable global operations remain dedicated to maximizing the
>production and eventual combustion of fossil fuels, just as Ford
>continues to make most of its profits by selling egregiously
>fuel-inefficient sport utility vehicles.
>
>Until we as a society break decisively from our addiction to
>fossil fuels and the motor vehicles that consume them in such
>vast quantities, our chances of avoiding severe climate change
>are slim. To be sure, a cool-companies strategy of increasing
>individual firms' energy and resource efficiency is a step
>forward. Such a strategy can dissolve current corporate
>prejudices by showing that environmental investments can indeed
>be profitable; it can also help buy time necessary to navigate
>the tricky transition to a truly environmentally sustainable
>society. But if companies like Toyota and Royal Dutch/Shell are
>left in charge of that transition, it's hard to imagine that
>we'll make the shift in time.
>
>
>Mark Hertsgaard, a longtime contributor to The Nation, is the
>author of four books, including, most recently, Earth Odyssey:
>Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
>(Broadway).
>
>
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 08:12:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Bill Casti (System Admin)"
Subject: Non-member submission from ["Nik Zafri Abdul Majid" ] (fwd)
Folks:
It's coming from YOUR hotmail account posting. I sent a message to the
entire ISO14000 list yesterday, telling what it is and the fact that,
since it originates on HOTMAIL's site, there's nothing I can do about it.
As you might have noticed, over the past few months there have been a few
of these "duplicate posting" incidents. All of them have come from posts
sent from a Hotmail account, and have originated on their Hotmail server.
I can't fix problems that are not on one of MY servers; I wish I could,
but I have no permissions on their servers, just as they have no
permissions to tinker with the configurations on my servers.
Although I know that it gives a certain degree of emotional satisfaction
to blame me for the problem, your blame is misdirected. It's a Hotmail
problem, not a Quality.org problem. I can't fix it.
Basically, you have two options:
1. You can do what others do when these incidents occur--hit your "delete"
key and blow away the duplicate posts.
2. Unsubscribe from the ISO14000 list. The subscribe/unsubscribe site is
still at: http://www.quality.org/cgi-bin/majordomo
In either instance, you should also be sending a message to
"Postmaster@hotmail.com" and letting them know about the problem. Be sure
to send ONE copy of the message you're complaining about to them, too.
And, make sure it includes all the routing headers, or they won't know
which of the millions of messages that go through their system every day
you're referring to.
I'm sorry I can't fix this problem, but it's not within the systems I have
any degree of control over and, therefore, not within my purview.
Regards.
Bill
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To: owner-iso14000@quality.org
Subject: BOUNCE iso14000@quality.org: Non-member submission from ["Nik Zafri Abdul Majid" ]
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From: "Nik Zafri Abdul Majid"
To: d.j.sparks@x400.icl.co.uk
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Dear Dave
I'm having the same problem as well...I don't know where is it coming
from....really...can someone help us in this.....
????
Nik
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From: Dave Sparks
To: nzafri@hotmail.com, nikzafri@tm.net.my
Subject: Re: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 10:23:25 +0100 (BST)
Your message to iso14000@quality.org seems to be looping - I've received it
several times.
If you can fix the problem, and mail the list to say you've fixed it,
before the USA gets to work in a few hours time, you may stave off a lot
of flak.
(Please don't mail to the list again before the problem is fixed!)
I attach a copy of what I received, since this may help you find the
problem.
Dave Sparks
> From owner-iso14000@quality.org Mon Aug 9 10:11:36 1999
> X-Authentication-Warning: cyberq.quality.org: majordom set sender to
owner-iso14000@quality.org using -f
> X-Originating-IP: [202.188.147.22]
> From: "Nik Zafri Abdul Majid"
> To: lennart@piper.se
> Cc: iso14000@quality.org
> Subject: Re: OHSAS 18001 (fwd)
> Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 15:33:05 MYT
> Sender: owner-iso14000@quality.org
>
> Dear sir
>
> Many thanks for your assistant giving us the link. It has proven
useful....
>
> Regards.
>
> Nik Zafri Abdul Majid
> Regd. Assessor, Consultant, Trainer, Columnist
> DIBM/BBM MIQM,MIQA,MMIM,MCNI,IRCA/EARA
> Honourable Fellow of PendidikNet Malaysia
>
> No.3, Jalan Intan 2/8
> Taman Intan
> Kluang
> 86000 Johor
> Malaysia
>
> nzafri@hotmail.com,nikzafri@tm.net.my
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