Awareness Raising

Steps... towards sustainability

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 20
Year of publication: quarterly

Description: KÖVET’s quarterly journal of environmental and sustainability management. It is a joint publication of the Hungarian Center for Cleaner Production and KÖVET. It is published four times a year on 20 pages with professional articles, interviews, cases of excellence, cleaner production, EMAS, corporate social responsibility, environmental regulations, job placement, environmental communication, green office etc.

Youth Exchange

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 56
Year of publication: 2005

Description: Facts and figures, questiones and answers with photos for the young generation of conscious consumers. It describes the environmental and social problems of consuming, and helps them to form a more sustainable life style.

Alternative Entrepreneurs DVD

Language: Hungarian with English subtitle
Length: 60 minutes
Year of publication: 2006

Description: Can we imagine a modern society, where profit is an important instrument, but not the final objective? Can any company operate realistically in such a spirit? In this movie we demonstrate -through real examples - the 'greening' and 'CSR' (Corporate Social Responsibility) process of today's corporations. We also introduce so called 'Alternative Entrepreneurs', whom we think are the closest to economic actors working in harmony with the ideal of sustainable developement.

The DVD can be ordered for 10 euro by sending a request to info@kovet.hu.

Environmentally Aware Management CD

Language: Hungarian
Length: 90 minutes
Year of publication: 2001

Description: On this CD 35 short movies can be found about environmentally aware management. It is useful for company trainings, or for schools. Partners, who helped us collecting the movies: B.A.U.M., Hamburg; Geofilm Produkció, Budapest; Umweltbundesamt, Berlin.

Handbooks

The Truly Responsible Enterprise

Language: English, Hungarian, Estonian 
Pages: 104
Year of publication: 2009 (2. edition)

Description: Tóth Gergely's book about unsustainable development, the tools of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the deeper, strategic approach. The main goal of this book is to stimulate thinking and generate debate on a deeper understanding of corporate responsibility.

The book has been prepared with the support of Leonardo da Vinci Community Vocational Training Action Programme of the EU.

The book can be downloaded in PDF format from here.
A hard copy can be ordered for 10 euros by sending a request to info@kovet.hu.

Products and Environmental protection

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 68
Year of publication: 2001

Description: This handbook helps companies to evaluate their products' environmental apescts and impacts. It is easy to understand, practical, with lot of examples. Topics include purchasing, influencing partners, environmentally friendly products and development, life cycle assessment (LCA) and more.

Green Office

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 234
Year of publication: 2005

Description: The handbook introduces the environmental impacts of offices. It gives very detailed information about paper consumption, energy, office supplies, computers, indoor air, cleaning, furniture and more. The book has a list of companies where you can buy encironmentally friendly office supplies.

Environmental Performance Evaluation

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 72
Year of publication: 2001

Description: This handbook was prepared for decision makers and environmental experts. It is partly based on ISO 14031, and describes many methods to evaluate environmental performance, including ecomapping, identifying significant aspects, indexes, eco-balances, comparing companies, and even outlook to sustainability rankings.

Green and Profitable

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 240
Year of publication: 1997

Description: Georg Winter's guide to environmentally aware management. After 10 languages also in Hungarian! It contains checklists, guides, examples of companies, codes of practice. It helps to introduce ISO 14001.

Guides

Why and How to be Environmentally Aware?

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 16
Year of publication: 2000

Description: The guidebook gives easy to understand instructions about environmentally aware management, and ISO 14001. It guides through the steps of implementnig an environmental management system, e.g. ISO 14001. The guide book gives examples for other management tools too, and also available on seven other languages: Basque, English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

EMAS 2001 - Put Simple

Language: Hungarian, English
Pages: 18
Year of publication: 2001

Description: This guidebook is an overview of environmental management systems and the EMAS 761/2001 regulation of the European Parliament and Council in Hungary. The original version was published in the countries of Southern Europe by INEM, and it was partly rewritten to the Hungarian circumstances. The guide is also published in Basque, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.

Good Housekeeping

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 20
Year of publication: 2000

Description: This guide gives practical examples to reach economical savings through environmental measures, such as minimizing waste, decrease resource and energy consumption etc. The guidebook can be helpful for environmental managers at SMEs, consultants, and decision makers to cut costs, and incease eco-efficiency.

Ecomapping

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 16
Year of publication: 2000 and 2006

Description: Ecomapping is a creative tool that helps small companies to implement environmental management, ISO 14001 and EMAS. This visual and practical tool helps SME managers and employees to analyse and manage the environmental performance of small companies and craft industries. The purpose of Ecomapping is to provide small companies and organisations with a free, visual, simple and practical tool to analyse and manage their environmental behaviour. It involves making a map of an organisation’s site, for example, a shop floor, a workshop, an office, a community centre to create an understanding of an organisation’s current environmental situation. More on ecomapping...

Project reports

TISOT

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 20
Year of publication: 2000

Description: The TISOT project started in Spring 1998 was coordinated by KÖVET. The aim of the project was to show, that integrating cleaner production and EMS is more successful than dealing with them seperately. The publication introduces the project itself, and the case studies of the companies involved in the project.

GEMS-HU

Language: Hungarian, English
Pages: 36
Year of publication: 1999

Description: Report on the findings of GEMS-HU (Global Environmental Management Survey in Hungary). The project was a part of a sereies of surveys managed by INEM, under the title GEMS. GEMS had been conducted in Argentina and Brasil, it was implemented in 1998-2000 in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

Case studies

Money Back Through the Window

Language: Hungarian
Pages: 230 together
Year of publication: annual since 2002

Description: Commonsense measures in enterprises often bring environmental and financial benefits at the same time. Industry can save more money through easy measures, than environmental innovation costs. This is the main message of a continuous empirical survey in Hungary. The measures are published every year in a case study collection, entitled Money back through the window. The six volumes altogether contain 67 case studies from leading companies (e.g. Alcoa, Audi, Ericsson, Flextronics, GE, HP) and small enterprises. More on the programme...