This allows:

• Quiz questions to be sent daily
• Emails to be sent to everyone using a single email address (eg. yourclass@googlegroups.com)
• Discussion of concepts and questions to occur with input from lecturers and staff

Registration to the Google Groups requires two things to happen:

1. If you don’t have one already, you need to create a Google Account.
   This is not an email address (unless you want a new one), and is explained on the Google Help pages at the following link:
   http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=27441
2. The you need to subscribe to the Group.
   You can do this one of two ways -

• via the web (Go to The Learning Room, go into your subject and complete the Google Groups process there), or
• via email (visit the Google Groups help section)

Please note that all Google Groups are moderated - your memberships are approved manually to avoid spammers gaining access to the Group. Please allow 1-2 working days for this to be approved (however it usually occurs the same day, unless you request access over the weekend).

To enrol in a class: (more…)

“We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?”

• 30- 31 July 2008, Sydney

In the very near future, businesses will need to know their carbon footprints or run the risk of others unwilling to do business with them. Analysis of a company supply chain’s current carbon footprint, along with the different storage and distribution strategies that may be used for reducing it, offer an opportunity for businesses to increase their competitive advantage in the market place. In the ripening information age, a true effort towards improving the environment will certainly be positively recognised by customers, staff and business partners alike.

The uses of energy (fuel and electricity) are large cost centres for most businesses that have big supply chains. As the price of crude oil balloons, knowing your current company’s networks’ costs and emission output is the first step to making positive changes for your business.

Increasingly Australian companies are looking to undertake positive activities towards cutting greenhouse emissions. This, however, may take time. One immediate way to positively contribute is through participation in such carbon offset programs. Understanding your current Supply Chain Carbon Footprint enables companies to purchase the equivalent carbon offsets to make their supply chain a “zero contributor” to carbon emissions – whilst still following strategies to reduce their own emissions.

This conference will aim to address the main issues higher management in sustainability, environmental and supply chain roles are facing. Just what is the accepted measurement of a carbon footprint? How do you quantify in, in supply chain terms into dollars and cents and how to you cost-effectively reduce it? What types of benchmarks should you be looking at?

Key topics include:

• Developing partnerships with vendors to build boutique carbon footprint calculation tools
• Investigating the different popular methodologies used in carbon foot print data collection and measurement
• Assessing future regulations on carbon management and reporting in Australia. Where are the policies heading?
• Conducting an entire lifecycle analysis- Is this the path that all future supply chain analysis will be taking?

** All ALA members are entitled to a discount of 10%
when registering with Ms.Esther and quote the reference EN-ALA **

For further details and brochures, please contact:

Ms. Esther Wong
Tel No: +603 2723 6736
Fax No: +612 9223 2352

Email: estherw@marcusevanskl.com

Please convert your files to xls files.

If you are not sure how to do this, please refer to the instructions below.

1. Click on the Office icon on the top left hand corner of your screen
2. Click on ‘Save As’
3. Click on Excel 97-2003 Workbook
4. Enter in your file name

Please see the image below to illustrate points 1, 2 & 3:

Log on to The Learning Room, enter your subject, and click on the news link (see screen shot below for an example of the link).

Updates occur daily and/or weekly, and can be used as a regular read for students in the areas they are interested in.

In the Main Menu, immediately under ‘Site News’ is a link to your transcript (see yellow arrow in screen shot below).

Sample registration email:

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