For the past few years, EEM, an environmental consulting group, developed NIMONIK as part of their environmental legal compliance business. NIMONIK is an information service on Canadian environmental regulations, centralized in an online database. It has worked well and served our clients well, but it is time for a new generation.

As web 1.0 gave way to web 2.0, we saw an opportunity to move the business in a new direction, make the service easier to use, more dynamic and much more affordable.  In May, we formed a new company which bought NIMONIK, and since then we’ve been working hard at shaping a richer website that we hope will be a community hub  for Canadian environmental managers.

We’re confident you will find our new service quite unique. Our aim is to reduce membership fees, allow users to import/export information on ISO 14001 requirements, and upload corporate documents. Users will also be able to add comments, rate articles, and literally create some of the content – building institutional memory for their companies.

On this project, I am working with Yves Faguy, a lawyer who also worked at EEM, and Paul Maclean, the president of the consulting group. We also have a fantastic team working on the content and the software with us.