Course level: Intermediate
Access duration: 1 year
Applicable states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
This training 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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