Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance

MSWG - The Path to Washington 2006

Feb. 2006 - The "Path to Washington" is MSWG's major long-term project: A three year effort to produce a new set of legal and policy tools to apply to our serious environmental problems, improve ecological conditions, sustain communities and improve everyone's quality of life. Email here for information. April '07 Fact Sheet here. Bulleted mission statement, here. Power Point from May '06 National Env. Partnership Summit in Atlanta, here.

ECOS-MSWG Policy Academy Project on Results of Innovative Programs

The MWSG Policy Academy Board of Regents, US EPA, and the Cross Media Committee of the Environmental Council of the States are co-sponsoring a project to document the results of environmental innovation. The project seeks to answer the following questions: a) Do performance-based programs produce better environmental results? b) If so, what is the nature of those improved results? c) How are the environmental results of performance-based programs best measured? d) Which techniques and approaches are the most effective means of communicating the environmental results of performance-based programs? Fact sheet here.

New MSWG Committee - Ecological Innovation and Integration

Led by Bob Donaghue of Georgia, this committee is seeking members. The first meeting was held in May at the National Environmental Summit in Atlanta - minutes here.

MSWG Interns

MSWG's Internship Program is poised to be one of the most influential internship programs focused on building a community of practice that advances ecological sustainability. By encouraging collaborative governance through partnerships with government, business, NGOs and universities, the internship program has the potential to be the principal source for students seeking to apply sustainability principles, employers wishing to expand their ecological expertise, and organizations seeking innovative approaches to ecological management. Click above for more information. The story of MSWG's first intern here.

MSWG internship - Fleet Street Stock Exchange

In November, 2004, MSWG placed an intern at the Fleet Street Stock Exchange - FTSE - looking into how environmental management & reporting affect financial performance. Click above for more information on this, or contact: Jeff Smoller at 608-266-2747 or at Jeffrey.Smoller@Wisconsin.gov

Adam Smith Rachel Carson Ecological Due-Diligence Initiative (c)

The Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance is seeking partners and players in the Adam Smith-Rachel Carson Ecological-Due Diligence Initiative © that is based upon the precept of “thinking ecologically and acting economically.”
Ecological reality informs everyone’s actions and the free enterprise system is a way to achieve ecological goals. The metaphor is Adam Smith providing a visible helping hand to Rachel Carson and creating business value.

Click here for more information, or contact:
Jeffrey Smoller, President, MSWG
608-266-2747
Jeffrey.Smoller@Wisconsin.gov

External Value EMS - Use your EMS to bring more value

How to use an EMS to go further - to provide value to customers, suppliers, the insurance company, the bank, the neighbors, and government bodies. After all, you've got to deal with these people.

Letter to State Commissioners encouraging the use of EVEMS & the new Facility Reporting Protocol.

Emerging Environmental Leaders Project

A collaboration of MSWG, Wisconsin and Baviaria. See here for more information.

Evaluation of Wisconsin DNR Environmental Cooperation Pilot

The 2006 Progress Report on the Environmental Cooperation Pilot Program is now available on DNR's website: http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/cea/ecpp/reports/2006/index.htm This report highlights many of the positive outcomes resulting from our on-going pilot agreements. This year we’ve added some interesting graphs showing the environmental performance of participants vs. non-participants.