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This training course pack includes 1 year of access to the following 4 courses:
1. Environmental Sustainability Training: Awareness
Course level: Introductory
This course covers the following information:
- What environmental sustainability awareness is
- Why sustainability is important
- Historical events related to sustainability
- EPA’s origin and role in sustainability
- Pollution prevention (P2)
- Building the foundation for an organization-wide sustainability program
- Tools that can be used to evaluate sustainability efforts
- Communicating sustainability efforts and gaining support
- Case studies regarding sustainability
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2. Environmental Sustainability Training: Leadership
Course level: Introductory
This course covers the following information:
- Why shifting from environmental compliance to sustainability is important
- The science of sustainable policy
- How sustainability enhances accomplishment of an organization’s mission
- The importance of prioritization
- How does an organization’s focus on sustainability impact staff
- The three phases of sustainability
- How to identify your organization’s place in the three phases of sustainability
- Is there a conflict between EMS and sustainability?
- What are ISO 14000/14001 standards
- EMS and sustainability
- Why the federal government is leading the sustainability effort
- Review of recent executive orders (EOs)
- The definition of sustainability leaders
- Attributes of sustainability leadership
- What is the role of a sustainability leader?
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3. Environmental Sustainability Training: Sustainable Organizations
Course level: Intermediate
This course covers the following information:
- What a sustainability wheel is
- The Egan Wheel
- How the Egan Wheel is used to evaluate sustainability
- The Kraft wheel
- The Department of Defense (DoD) wheel
- Life cycle assessment (LCA) methods
- The four basic steps in conducting an LCA
- The three basic levels of LCA
- Application of LCA: e-diesel and packaging
- LCA case study
- Environmental impact assessment (EIA) models
- EIA methods
- EIA audit considerations
- Choosing an EIA model
- What is green chemistry
- Green chemistry benefits
- Sustainable chemistry hierarchy
- Implementing green chemistry for a sustainable and healthy economy
- Sustainable environmental systems
- Priority environmental concerns
- Continuous improvement cycle
- Current sustainable environmental systems technologies
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4. Environmental Sustainability Training: Implementation
Course level: Intermediate
This course covers the following information:
- The six themes of environmental sustainability
- Renewable resource systems
- Non-renewable resource systems
- Long-term chemical and biological impacts
- Human-built systems and land use
- Economics and human behavior
- Information and decision making
- Establishing a strategic direction for an organization
- Questions to be answered during the strategic direction planning process
- Leadership’s role in creating a sustainable organization
- What makes a good sustainability leader
- Creating sustainability teams
- Sustainability team functions and goals
- Development of sustainability programs for key business processes
- Which operations should include sustainability measures
- Good business processes for developing sustainable programs
- Establishing key performance indicators for sustainability activities
- Good human resource practices
- Metrics for key performance indicators
- How new processes or concepts may impact an organization
- Studies on sustainable practices in the workplace (case study examples)
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