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Sustainability Best Practices & Implementation
$1,980
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Take the Final Step in Earning Your Advanced Certificate in Sustainable Innovation
One more step and you can position yourself for greater career opportunities with the credential and skills to turn any organization into a sustainable enterprise. The third and final course of the Advanced Certificate in Sustainable Innovation, Sustainability Best Practices & Implementation, teaches you the advanced topics of sustainability that cut across areas like sustainable product design and green supply chain management. Special emphasis is placed on how to implement sustainability within an organization using industry best practices.
By the end of the course, you will master how the key components of different sustainability initiatives work together. You’ll also know how to identify existing standards, technologies, and best practices to help organizations and communities manage and optimize sustainability decisions. It’s the final step on your way to corporate sustainability leadership. And you’ll do it all through the convenience of 100% online, video-based e-learning.
Who Should Register?
Intended for students who have completed Principles & Strategies for Sustainability and Sustainable Operations, this eight week, instructor-led course is designed for executives interested in leading sustainability initiatives, sustainability coordinators, business operations professionals, social entrepreneurs, professionals entering the sustainability field, community/organization leaders, managers, directors, c-level executives or anyone who wants to learn how to implement green business practices for their organization. This program can prepare individuals for a variety of sustainability-related careers, including positions such as director of sustainability, green marketer, environmental sustainability coordinator and environmental management system specialist. Sustainability Best Practices & Implementation provides an in-depth examination of best practices in sustainability, and how to successfully implement them.
What You’ll Learn
Carbon Accounting
- Carbon accounting basics
- Personal and organizational carbon footprints
- Product and country carbon footprints
- Carbon accounting software
Sustainable Agriculture
- Industry trends
- Key environmental impacts in agriculture
- Organics 101
- Genetically modified organisms (GMOs)
Sustainable Product Design
- Principles of eco-design
- Example: Cradle-to-cradle
- Role of consumer choice
- LCAs: Standards, tools and challenges
Biomimicry
- Optimizing rather than maximizing
- Using benign manufacturing
- Locally attuned and responsive
- Biomimicry as a design approach
Green Supply Chain Management
- Supply chain trends
- Creating a green procurement policy
- Challenges to greening the supply chain
- Case study: P&G Supplier Scorecards
Additional Topics in Sustainability
- Bio-diversity
- Unionization and collective bargaining
- Lobbying and public policy
- Eco-villages
Community Impact
- Who is your “community”?
- Philanthropy and sustainability
- Cause-based marketing
- Case study: Philadelphia Greenworks
Applying Sustainability: Walmart
- History of Walmart and sustainability
- Energy and climate change
- Waste, recycling and green building
- Impact on industry
Sustainability Best Practices & Implementation
$1,980
CALL TO REGISTER!
855-300-1467
This Course is part of an Advanced Certificate Program.
Click here to learn more and SAVE!