The Compliance and Enforcement Review recognised the benefits of EIPs, particularly, in encouraging businesses to go beyond environmental performance standards required by EPA licences; improved accountability and transparency between businesses and communities.
An environment improvement plan (EIP) is an effective tool to guide a business's environmental management through a process of continued improvement. It is also a public commitment by a company to drive environmental improvements, typically beyond those required by EPA licences, through a series of agreed actions and timelines.
EPA recognises the valuable environmental improvements which can be made by businesses committed to the effective application of EIPs through responsible citizen engagement.
A number of fundamental principles should be considered by businesses and community members involved in the development and implementation of an EIP, as outlined below.
Collaboration – an EIP will only be effective if it is developed in a partnership between the business and the community in which it operates. As such the forum for developing the plan needs to be open, constructive and collaborative – the community will provide insight into areas of community concern but only where the environment is non-threatening.
Genuine – When used as an aspirational tool, and in a voluntary capacity between business and the community, EPA has no mandate to regulate against the delivery of commitments. Businesses looking to implement an EIP need to show genuine commitment to a process of environmental improvement, which is reflected in the issues identified for action, which should be endorsed at a senior management level. EIPs should not be an opportunity for 'greenwash'.
Accessible – the information in EIPs should be easily accessible to the community. The language and style of plans should be appropriately pitched for the audience. The document should also be available both to community members who attend traditional community committee meetings and via the company's website, in recognising that the Victorian community extends beyond the immediate boundaries of the site.
Integrated – EIPs should be integrated into existing environmental policies. The nature of this will vary depending on the level of sophistication of environmental management, and may involve integration into existing management policies and procedures; supporting the development of a holistic Environmental Management Systems (EMS), or alignment of an existing EMS with international standards.
Site-specific – the issues and actions identified within EIPs should be tailored to the specific business and the specific site. In particular, they should reflect those identified as of community concern and should address any relevant issues which characterise the particular industry sector.
Prioritised – objectives within EIPs should be prioritised according to the need to eliminate, minimise and control the impact of a business's operations on the environment and the associated risks.
Monitored – a critical aspect of an EIP is that progress is monitored and, as such, objectives within EIPs should be 'SMART', specific, measureable, achievable, realistic and time-bound.
Reported – As a dynamic document, the implementation of an EIP should be reported on regularly by the business and communicated to both senior management and to the local community. This will ensure continued management support and will encourage effective and efficient engagement between the business and the community.
Businesses and community members interested in developing an EIP should refer to EPA publications 938 and 739 for more detailed information and advice.
Call 1300 372 842 (1300 EPA VIC) for all enquiries and pollution reporting 24 hours.


The Mars Society is calling for additional volunteers for its 2014 Mars Arctic 365 mission at the FMARS facility (pictured above) in Devon Island, Canada. Photo Credit: The Mars Society.
Aerial view of the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) site in Devon Island, Canada. The first phase of the Mars Society's mission at this site was complete in late July. Photo Credit: The Mars Society on Facebook.


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The Legend of How Bluesman Robert Johnson Sold His Soul to the Devil at the Crossroads
October 30, 2020 bizprat	0 Comments
We remember the bluesman Robert Johnson as the Jimi Hendrix of the 1930s, a guitarist of staggering skill who died before age thirty. Both found mainstream success, but Johnson's came posthumously: in fact, his music and Hendrix's first music hit it big in the same decade, the 1960s. King of the Delta Blues Singers, an album of Johnson's songs released by Columbia Records in 1961, had a great influence on the likes of Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, Robert Plant, and Eric Clapton, who calls Johnson "the most important blues singer that ever lived." How did this poor young Mississippian come by his formidable abilities? Why, he sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads, of course.
Or at least that's what we all seem to have heard. And indeed, doesn't the legend make the opening line of "Cross Road Blues," King of the Delta Blues' opening number, that much more evocative? "I went down to the crossroads," he sings. "Fell down on my knees. Asked the Lord above for mercy, 'Take me, if you please.'" Well, it could've been the Lord, or it could have been the other one. But in fact we have precious little record of Johnson's life, and no direct references at all to his bargain with Beelzebub (animations of which we previously featured here on Open Culture). Why has the legend stuck? Music Youtube series Polyphonic addresses that question in the video essay above.
An earlier episode covered deals with the devil throughout the history of music. This time, the subject is the crossroads itself, the setting of Johnsonian lore no one ever fails to mention. "Of all the marks that humans make on the earth, crossroads are among the simplest and most enduring," says narrator Noah Lefevre. "As long as humans organize ourselves in towns and cities, crossroads will remain, and so will the legends of their dark powers and of the strange spirits who occupy them." The mythology of the crossroads goes back at least to the Greek goddess Hecate, who rules over "liminal space, the transition from the known to the great unknown beyond." In the Mississippi Delta, the mythology of the crossroads intersects, as it were, with the realm of Haitian voodoo.
"A religion that mixes Roman Catholic influences with West African spiritual traditions" — and the one that gave us zombies — voodoo has "one all-powerful god, but you can only speak to him through spirits known as loa." And to talk to loa, you've got to go through Papa Legba, the loa of the crossroads. From the late 18th century, voodoo began making its way through the American South, the cradle of the blues. Out of this rich setting came Johnson's predecessor Tommy Johnson (no relation), a singer and guitarist who based his persona on the claim of having sold his own soul to the devil. Even Robert Johnson's mentor Ike Zimmerman was said to have practiced guitar in graveyards at midnight.
"Johnson is seen today as the grandfather of rock-and-roll," says Lefevre. "That comes not just from his virtuoso playing, but also from his mythology." (Consider this legacy in light of how often rock-and-roll was in decades past called "the devil's music.") Today, in songs like "Hellhound on My Trail," we can hear both references to voodoo-inspired rituals and other forms of the occult as well as conditions of life in a South removed only a generation or two from slavery. This Polyphonic episode may convince you that "the myth of Johnson and the crossroads may have been birthed out of sheer accident," but that's no reason not to give King of the Delta Blues Singers a spin this Halloween — or any other day besides.
The Story of Bluesman Robert Johnson's Famous Deal With the Devil Retold in Three Animations
A Brief History of Making Deals with the Devil: Niccolò Paganini, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page & More
Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away: "You Never Told Me He Was That F-ing Good"
Jimi Hendrix Plays the Delta Blues on a 12-String Acoustic Guitar in 1968, and Jams with His Blues Idols, Buddy Guy & B.B. King
Covering Robert Johnson's Blues Became a Rite of Rock 'n' Roll Passage: Hear Covers by The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Howlin' Wolf, Lucinda Williams & More
Robert Johnson Finally Gets an Obituary in the New York Times 81 Years After His Death
Based in Seoul, Colin Marshall writes and broadcasts on cities, language, and culture. His projects include the Substack newsletter Books on Cities, the book The Stateless City: a Walk through 21st-Century Los Angeles and the video series The City in Cinema. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall, on Facebook, or on Instagram.
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By Olivia Powell | November 15, 2017.
British comedian Sean Lock was heckled by an Irish audience when he brought his Keep It Light stand up show to the Olympia Theatre.
The comedian, who played two gigs on the 12th and 13th of November, is well known for being the team captain on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown alongside Jimmy Carr and Jon Richardson.
Lock spoke of the public constantly looking at their phones, Brexit (an easier subject for the comedian to joke about in Ireland), experiencing a midlife crisis and his manic ideas for children's books.
Although funny, the 54-year-old received warm and friendly laughs at the right moments but it was not a show that would have you crying with laughter.
In the second half of the gig, Lock passed comment on how expensive it is to go to the cinema nowadays, how you can easily spend 16 quid on popcorn and be out of pocket.
At this point, a lady in the audience shouted: "That's how we feel right now".
A bit harsh, but I couldn't help agreeing with her just a little. The woman in question totally ruined the rest of Lock's joke on the expense of the cinema, but he carried on regardless.
Lock was met with a few heckles from the Dublin crowd on the night, although he couldn't understand what one man was saying, due to his strong Irish accent. Lock's colleague, Jimmy Carr, is certainly quicker and wittier at comebacks to hecklers.
Keep It Light did make us laugh, but there certainly was an air of disappointment in the room. Some comedians are wiser to stick to comedy panel shows than touring and playing an hour and a half solo show every night.


I think I see what you're trying to say...since there is no perfection programs are created with holes that the kiddies exploit...programers then scramble to cover themselves complaining about the kiddies/hackers/crackers while the kiddies/hackers/crackers insist they are just showing everyone the lackisdasical attitude of $bigsoftwarecompany. It's a vicious circle and since there never will be a utopia this will continue on for all time.
Sort of like me complaining about M$ when all my clients depend on them to run their systems and I make an income that puts food on the table by handling the issues that crop up with M$ products.
It may be that NetSyn was also speaking about the senior programmers "leaking" info and apps to the junior set, which enables them to attack others.
I think it would be fair to say as well that not all script kiddies are completely lame. I for one started off using other peoples programs without knowledge of how they worked or what exatly they did/exploited but from that stemed a thirst for knowledge to try and figure out what they did and how they worked - and am sure I ain't alone!
Did I make any sense there at all????
valhallen - that's good. It seems that you were not irresponsible either but put your time in and learned. Noone really minds those starting off, it is just the trash talking malicious kind we all would rather do without.
Yes you did make sense. We ALL started off newbies anyway.
in my opinion advancement only comes with need.
and with the need comes desire to find a better way.


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