Greenality

Greenality is the degree to which a project has considered environmental (green) factors that affect a project during the entire project life cycle.
Project Managers should be putting a greenality statement in their Project Charter, identifying up front that they intend for their project to be carbon-neutral, or at least to acknowledge environmental impact(s) and set clearly-stated environmental objectives for the project.
Proposed changes to PMI's Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility will add greenality to the Code so that it is natural - and expected - to have a project manager use an 'environmental lens' when viewing their projects.
The upcoming 5th Edition of the PMBOK(R) Guide is proposed to be modified to contain aspects of greenality. Beyond the Charter and Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility changes, two project management processes are proposed; (1) a plan to minimize the environmental impacts of a projects, and (2) the monitoring and controlling of the environmental impacts of the product of the project.
Efforts are under way to provide a proper scale and set of metrics for greenality, using knowledge from the environmental community, the project management community, and the Project Management Institute, to which a formal request has been made to include 'green' factors in its next (5th Edition) Project Management Body of Knowledge (R) Guide, and the Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility.
The aspects of greenality are best described by these 5 assertions (from )
Assertion 1: Smart project managers seek first to understand the green aspects of their projects, knowing that this will better equip them to identify, manage, and identify financial, environmental, and overall project risks.
Assertion 2: Having an environmental strategy for a project provides added opportunity for success of both the project and the product of the project.
Assertion 3: A project run with green intent is the right thing to do, but it will also help the project team do things right.
Assertion 4: Looking at a project through an environmental lens increases the Project Manager’s (and the project team’s) long-term thinking and avails the project of the rising “green wave” of environmentalism.
Assertion 5: Project Managers should think of the environment in the same way that they think of quality. It must be planned in, and the cost of “greenality”, like the cost of quality, is more than offset by the savings and opportunities it provides.

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