Cindy Durdan

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Renew the Carbon Neutral Certification for TMC Pool
• Sorting previous files, update contacts
• Organize & plan the Carbon Neutral Certification project in a short term
• Update the Life Cycle Assessment for a specific product and the Emissions Management Plan
• Contact and work with a Life Cycle expert and an Independent Verifier
• Write the Carbon Neutral Package (LCA, EMP, Public Disclosure Summary, Annual report) and submit to Low Carbon Australia

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Consult in sustainable development communication strategy and methodology
• Manage and organize animation about the carbon footprint or environmental protection to develop staff awareness
• Manage and create media communication (people awareness environmental tools like poster or leaflet, commercial document…)

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Carbon footprint animation at France Television during the “Sustainable development Week”: about half of the staff (1280 persons) interviewed and awareness developed, I managed a group of 6 people’s interviewer
• Environment issues quiz during the Pollutec exhibition for Veolia: 1100 visitors interviewed and awareness developed, managed 3 people’s interviewers
• Carbon footprint of two menus catering for MAIF group: calculation, transcripts of the results and argumentation

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Established sustainable development approach:
• Conducted an inventory of SDIS’s strengths and weaknesses based on the sustainable development themes
• Created partnerships with “ADEME” (the environment and energy consult agency in France) to initiate and fund an energy audit
• Managed a working group of 7 people whose aim was to consider sustainable development actions to implement and to relay environmental information to employees (for example : promote energy saving, increase purchases socially and environmentally responsible)
• Created communication tools and initiated actions to develop awareness staff about ecological actions (sorting wastes, energy saving for example)
• Developed a program of sustainable development actions for 3 years

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Validation of sustainable development objectives and actions program by Directors Board
• Implementation of equipment for the sorting wastes and development of the staff awareness (sorting waste, paper using, energy saving…)
• Significant increase of the sorting wastes

Promoted sustainable development issues by organizing events
• Managed 6 persons and organized activities for the “Day public awareness” called “Agite ta Terre”. This event took place outdoors and met hundreds of people: children, adults, retirees, around fun activities on the theme of environmental protection, created by members of the association. (For example : set of inequality of wealth in the world, creating art with nature concept called "land art", choose the good product according the season)
• Co-organized the “Awareness day of sorting and waste collection”
• Created partnership with associations (Médecins du Monde) to borrow awareness tools, with musician for animation, with local organization for the waste collection

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Development of a “green” clothing line for children
• Studied the market for green clothing children
• Contacted foreign suppliers to find ecological and new knitted wear (organic cotton, linen, milk and bamboo fibre) and to learn about ecological labels they held (for dyeing, social protection, material used)
• Studied the feasibility according to the costs, the materials
• Creation of technical files for 3 sets of clothes and made a production samples

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Creation of a “knitted samples library” to help buyers and stylists find faster knitted samples to their collection and the appropriate supplier:
• Made an inventory of the knitted samples and a selection of the most representative
• Developed a classification and identification tools
• Set up the library and communicated to employees to make it known

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
• Two sets of clothes, one in milk fibre and one in bamboo fibre, has been incorporated into the spring/summer 2007 collection of “Tartine & Chocolat” brand
• Facilitated research samples and suppliers for buyers and stylist: time saved