Kutztown, PA – John Boecker, 7group partner, has been named an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Green Professionals.

The Institute of Green Professionals (IGP) is an independent, professional, education, credentialing, research and philanthropic “social enterprise” organization for sustainable development professionals and academics.

IGP’s Corporate Partners endorse and support the core IGP brand values of sustainable development professionalism, research, education and philanthropy.

Multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary its scope, the Institute of Green Professionals is the only global organization of its type that brings together individuals and organizations from all spheres of sustainable development. The focus of IGP includes specialties in architecture, accounting, appraisal, engineering, land-use planning, landscape architecture, real property valuation, law, and includes corporate participants in CSR capacities.

The Mission Statement of IGP captures the words and intent of both Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson and economist Brian Milani.

Professor Wilson said:

A balanced perspective cannot be acquired by studying disciplines in pieces but through pursuit of the consilience among them.

The term “consilience” was used in Professor Wilson’s 1998 book of the same name, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, and means “the joining together of knowledge and information across disciplines to create a unified framework of understanding.”

Brian Milani applied this concept to participants in the transition to a Green economy when he said:

The environmental movement in particular should put more emphasis on establishing an educational network that both formalizes its educational tasks and systematizes connections with the rest of the community.

More information: http://www.instituteofgreenprofessionals.org