Saturday, August 27, 2011
Video: College of Energy Environment and Sustainability
The college of Energy, Environment and Sustainability strives to expand knowledge of clean energy technology by providing green energy certifications. Using an online learning model this college enhances student competitiveness in the green jobs market. The College of Energy offers four different green job and career oriented green energy certifications, each of which focuses on a different aspect of clean energy technology and policy.
For more information click here.
© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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Green education is the way forward for jobs and the economy.
The solutions to problems we face start with each of us making sustainable decisions, this includes the careers we choose. There has never been a better time to get involved in Green Education and Sustainable business.
Green Education Directory contains a large number of college and university programs that promote green sustainable living and working. Their site features post secondary education programs and schools with associate, bachelor, master and doctoral programs as well as diplomas and undergrad and graduate certificates in green industries from Bio-Fuel, Eco Tourism, Environmental Science, Environmental Law, Green Agriculture, Green Architecture, Green Chemistry, Green Power Generation and Renewable Energy, Sustainable Business Management and Urban Planning.
Green is not the future, green is now. Get green and get educated!
To go to Green Education Directory or to request more information click here.
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Friday, August 26, 2011
World Water Week 2011: The Business of Water Management Requires Collaboration
World Water Week opened in Stockholm on Monday August 22nd with calls for better urban water management to ensure food and water security. Around 2,500 experts from some 130 countries are attending the 21st edition of World Water Week in Stockholm. They are working on preparations for the United Nation’s conference on sustainable development set to be held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012. The group expects to publish a declaration at the end of this week (August 26).
Despite the U.N.’s adoption of a resolution recognizing access to clean water and sanitation as a human right, 1.6 billion people continue to live in areas affected by drought, and that the number could easily rise to two billion without immediate efforts to manage the situation.
As the migration from rural areas continues, 830 million poor currently live in urban areas. Such rapid growth is straining natural resources and infrastructure. These areas often lack water and sanitation services which is a leading cause of mortality for both children and their mothers. Investments from governments and companies now will pay dividends later.
“More than ever we need new technologies and policy solutions…to compensate for water shortages hitting a growing number of the world’s inhabitants,” Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, said in her opening address at the World Water Conference. “Increased access to clean water supplies and sanitation is an important catalytic force for development,” Carlsson said, insisting “the costs of not acting far exceed the costs of well-functioning, sustainable water resource management.”
To help shed some light on the issues, 2degrees streamed live webinars of the World Water Week sessions. Here is a summary of those sessions:
On Monday, August 22nd, the Global Water Adaptation Action Alliance (GWAAA), World Bank and Conservation International (CI) discussed climate and hydrological regimes determining water availability, and how well institutions are managing water resources. This session addressed the challenges of balancing energy, food and ecological security in a changing climate. It provided an interactive forum for overcoming barriers to respond sustainably to emerging conditions.
On Tuesday, August 23rd, the Water Footprint Network (WFN) & Swedish Textile Water Initiative (STWI), Coca Cola Europe, The Nature Conservancy, and others addressed the Sustainability of Water Footprints: From Assessment to Strategic Response. They presented innovative research and case studies from both the public and private sectors to demonstrate this cutting edge of the water footprint assessment. As explained in the session, by unlocking the information embedded in the water footprint, all actors can take the most effective action toward reducing the impacts of water use.
Also on Tuesday, August 23rd, Ceres, Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), WBCSD and the World Resources Institute (WRI) addressed Corporate Water Risk Management: Seeking Solutions. The session explained that water risk and its management are important to business and stakeholders. Companies are partnering with others to better understand risks, reduce impacts, seize opportunities and, ultimately, drive change towards more sustainable practices and policies. Solutions involve use of innovative tools, a selection of which were showcased, along with user experiences and exploring how they fit together.
On Wednesday, August 24th, FAO Rome, UNESCO, Stockholm Environmental Institute, King’s College London, International Youth Council, Women for Water Partnership, SIWI, Value Chain Development, University of Nebraska, WWF, World Bank, GWP, and more discussed World Water Day 2012 – Water and Food Security: Call for Solutions. This much anticipated debate focused on the viability of water and food security solutions. The core topics debated were: innovation or traditional methods; intensification or greener agriculture; food import or self sufficiency; increasing food production; or reducing food waste and adopting sustainable diets.
Also on Wednesday, August 24th, Building Partnerships for Development in Water and Sanitation (BPD), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Adviser on Urban Environment and Development (WASTE) discussed Understanding the Opportunities for Entrepreneurs in Getting Sustainable Services to the Poor. Interest in market-based approaches to solving development challenges continues to grow. This session explored the different markets and incentives for sanitation service supply chains and discussed new business models to engage the private sector.
On Thursday, August 25th UNEP, UNESCO, WHO, FAO, French National Committee of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) & French Chapter of the International Water Association (ASTEE) addressed the question, Which Water Quality for Which Uses? A Regulators’ and Practitioners’ Perspective. How can water quality standards and guidelines protect water resources for multiple ecosystem services, and water uses? Key policy-makers, regulators, and researchers from around the world discussed the development of international water use guidelines, drawing on the results of the recent UNEP-UNESCO study.
Given the amount of water used by industry, the business community has a crucial role to play in sustainably managing water. According to some estimates, it takes 16 gallons of water to produce a single microchip, one pair of jeans takes 2,900 gallons, a single hamburger takes 634 gallons, and one cup of tea takes 9 gallons.
Although businesses seem to be increasingly focused on energy, many are less focused on water. However, there is an intrinsic link between water and energy. The business community needs to tackle the energy and carbon implications of supplying clean water and disposing of wastewater.
The Energy Saving Trust has produced a report on quantifying the energy and carbon effects of water saving. The focus is on domestic use, (i.e. households), but we need to see more focus on business and industry.
Although it is an uphill struggle getting sustainability professionals to accept that all of our natural resources need to be used sustainably and managed in combination with one other, some businesses are making major efforts.
A recent Greenbiz article interviewed sustainability professionals that are taking significant steps to reduce their companies’ water footprints. For example, Intel recycled 2 billion gallon of water in 2010, and MillerCoors brewery is planning to save as much as 16 million gallons of water.
Since 1998, Intel has invested more than $100 million in water conservation programs at their global facilities. To date, the company’s comprehensive and aggressive efforts have saved nearly 40 billion gallons of water — enough for roughly 370,000 U.S. homes for an entire year. Intel also harvests as much water from its manufacturing processes as possible and directs it to equipment such as cooling towers and scrubbers.
Since February 2007, the Dow Chemical Company facility in Terneuzen, Netherlands, has been reusing municipal household wastewater to help preserve community water supplies and reduce demand for desalinated water in a water-stressed region. Every day, Dow takes 2.6 million gallons of municipal wastewater and applies reverse osmosis technology to reuse the water twice. More than 70 percent of the wastewater is reused in manufacturing plants, and then used again in cooling towers before it is released into the atmosphere as steam. This purification process requires half the chemical treatment and 65 percent less energy than desalinating the same amount of sea water, and the energy savings are equivalent to lowering carbon dioxide emissions by 5,000 tons per year.
Levi Strauss & Co. is working to build sustainability into everything they do, including reducing the water used throughout the life-cycle of their products. Based on their research, they know that they can reduce the most water by focusing on more sustainable cotton farming and by educating consumers about how they care for their products. They are also reducing water use in the part of the supply chain where they have more direct influence. The company has challenged itself to reduce the amount of water for a pair of jeans from an average of 42 liters of water to as little as 1.5 liters.
For MillerCoors, water efficiency is critical to their business, and they are focused on working towards their 2015 goal of reducing overall water usage by 15 percent. They are testing new innovations in their breweries to reduce or replace water-based processes completely.
Anheuser-Busch is making progress towards their ambitious water reduction goal. Their success so far is based not on one big innovation or major investment, but on a system-wide approach that relies on integrating sustainability into the DNA of their management philosophy, not just on technology upgrades. The company has introduced measurable, aggressive water conservation targets which they have linked to individual rewards. They have reduced their global water usage by 6 percent in 2010 and by more than 19 percent since 2007, saving the equivalent of nearly 16,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools over three years.
MGM Resorts International is acutely aware of its responsibility to minimize its use of water. They take a comprehensive approach to this challenge, and look for innovative ways to reduce their consumption.
The Coca-Cola Company aims to maintain a water sustainable business on a global scale, so they developed and implemented a water stewardship strategy, with a global goal to safely return to nature and to communities an amount of water equivalent to what they use in their beverages and their production by 2020. Since 2005, with the help of respected partners like WWF and USAID, Coca-Cola has engaged in more than 320 water projects in 86 countries. Projects have focused on watershed protection and conservation, expanding community drinking water, sanitation access, and improving water for productive use.
SABMiller India is working to protect the water supply for the brewery and local farmers. The region has traditionally suffered from over-extraction and poor water management, which has resulted in a significant drop in the aquifer level, posing serious risks to both SABMiller India and the livelihoods of local communities. In response, SABMiller India worked with local partners to construct four water recharge dams to prevent excessive water run-off and facilitate the natural water replenishment of the groundwater. Since their construction, it is estimated that there has been a net rise of the groundwater by 31 feet, representing almost as much water as was extracted last year by the brewery. Additionally, SABMiller helped local farmers reduce their water use by establishing demonstration fields in 10 local villages to showcase water-efficient irrigation techniques and crops. Farmers that took on the improved plant varieties have decreased their water usage and improved their incomes by as much as 147 percent.
Due to the complexity of the issues surrounding water scarcity, cross-sector collaboration is crucial to establishing successful strategies for water management in business and industry. New partnerships are required that evaluate water risks in the value chain and share best practice to manage these risks.
Collaborative approaches to water management deliver positive results for entrepreneurs, water companies, global corporations and domestic water users, which in turn secures positive outcomes for both local communities and businesses.
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Thursday, August 25, 2011
Blue Planet Academy Green Certificate Programs
Agronomist
As an agronomist you contribute largely to an environmentally, economically and socially sustainable and secure provision of agricultural products. Our society desires healthy, ethically and responsibly produced food, competitive and affordable for all, but also attractive and recreational spaces in an intact and diverse natural and cultural landscape.
Certificate of Science in Agriculture
6 semesters
Electrical Engineer RES (Renewable Energy Sources)
Electricians install, maintain and repair all electrical installations in and outside of buildings. Your work includes installation, commissioning and operation of electrical equipment and electronic systems. Energy production and supply of renewable energy sources are utterly important for the future and therefore one of the most important tasks during this course. Thanks to the intense and specific training in renewable and alternative energy sources you will profit of excellent career opportunities.
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Environment Expert
We bring together science, technology, design and the social sciences. This unique apprenticeship will equip you with the knowledge needed to address the urgent problems our world faces – from environmental issues like climate change and the scarcity of critical resources like food and water, to urban growth, globalisation and sustainability.
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Recyclist
Recyclists are professionals who collect, sort and separate salvage of any sort into their components. Furthermore you provide all that's needed for recycling. You deliver non-recyclable materials to environmentally acceptable disposal zones.Your work ensures the reutilization of used materials. Thanks to recycling the limited resources of our planet can be conserved.
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Water Technologist
The key challenge for mankind's future is the reliable supply of safe drinking water, our No. 1 nutrient. Water knowledge and professionally educated process specialists are in high demand. As a water technologist, you can follow various career opportunities in water management, such as planning, constructing and operating water treatment systems, the optimization of drinking water, wastewater and process water treatment, the selective removal of pollutants from water and the exploitation of water resources
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Blue Planet Academy Environmental Training in the Developing World
Blue Planet Academy provides environmental training in five different apprenticeship programs.
Environment management and protection
Energy
Water management
Waste / Recycling
Agriculture
These programs are designed to help people become expert in environmental protection and resource-efficient consumption. Blue Planet Academy develops specialist with excellent career prospects that work for the betterment of the environment.
Blue Planet Academy apprenticeships do not just teach sustainable skills they cultivate humanism and stewardship of the earth.
For more information contact Blue Planet here.
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These training modules are designed for companies and governments which seek to educate employees with a high-quality curriculum that can be inserted into any LMS. Green Education Online offers training on topics covering sustainability strategies and programs, innovation, and best practices.
The sustainability modules are designed for managers and Supervisors who will be involved in the implementation process of an organizations’ quest for becoming more energy efficient and in planning sustainability and energy saving programs. All employees who need to be provided with information supporting their employers’ sustainability initiatives.
SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING
This training provides detailed guidelines to address how to develop and then implement a Sustainability Plan. While each Sustainability Plan is developed within the context of the organization’s culture, there are specific steps that will make the plan more effective and successful. This training will present the process and framework for developing a Sustainability Plan based upon an analyses of your organization’s needs, priorities, and resources. Methods for identifying the appropriate metrics and monitoring systems for your Sustainability Plan will also be outlined.
TRAINING MODULES: 5
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
This training is focused on creating awareness and advance knowledge on issues on ethics and social responsibility. Training participants will learn about a broad range of social responsibility factors that are tied to sustainability and environmental concerns.Environmental issues are tied to the organizational culture and managing risk through an authentic approach to developing and implementing sustainability across all departments, suppliers, and subcontractors is discussed.
TRAINING MODULES: 4
GREEN BUILDING / SYSTEMS / MATERIALS
Covers the fundamentals of building science and examines a 'whole-building' approach to construction, operations and maintenance. This provides a healthier environment while also making the building more energy efficient. The modules identifies core principles, best practices, regulations and incentives; and fundamentals of green building rating systems. Training participants will learn how to develop a basic action plan for implementing “green” building systems in renovation plans or in building new structures.
TRAINING MODULES: 5
GREEN CERTIFICATIONS, LABELS, AND STANDARDS
The growing green certification, labels, and standards can be confusing and overwhelming. A green certification is supposed to be an indication that green principles are practiced and that dynamic, ongoing sustainability practices are in place. This training will review techniques for determining legitimacy and credibility and performance. Industry certifications in building, consumer products, environmental landscaping, fleet management, lodging/tourism are just some of the areas that will be covered.
TRAINING MODULES: 4
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
This overview of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) identifies and covers life cycle analysis. In the government and business sectors, GSCM is critical in procurement programs, award of contracts, and as part of the overall Sustainability Planning process. The purpose of this training is to describe the impact of green to the supply chain management, demonstrating how green practices can save money, increase efficiency, and reduce delivery time.
TRAINING MODULES: 4
WASTE MANAGEMENT
This training is timely and it identifies strategic measures for creating or enhancing a waste management plan to include understanding waste streams, measuring current/baseline waste generation, completing a waste assessment, identifying resources, ensuring compliance with regulations, adopting an integrated waste management program, tracking and monitoring the program, and training/ educating employees. In this module the following topics will be explored:
advancing technologies to reduce waste
increasing recycling and reuse
creating safer treatment and disposal options
developing sources of renewable energy
TRAINING MODULES: 6
TRANSPORTATION / GREEN FLEET MANAGEMENT
Improved transportation plans significantly impacts air quality, land use, quality of life and addresses the negative health impacts. This training will provide a review of alternative fuel options, green fleet concepts, and efficient transportation systems which can result in economic and health benefits. This model will provide:
Focused information for building sustainable fleets.
Easy to implement tools and practical solutions to improve efficiency.
Up to date knowledge on the state of industry and future trends.
TRAINING MODULES: 4
SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING PRACTICES
The objective of this training is to bring together policies, communication tools, process improvements, standards, and reporting mechanisms to help align purchasing practices with values and incorporate these into a Sustainable Purchasing Program. A Sustainable Purchasing Policy promotes the use of environmentally preferable products in its acquisition of goods and services through the consideration of life
cycle effects from:
Pollution
Waste generation
Energy consumption
Recycled material content
Depletion of natural resources
Potential impact on health and nature
TRAINING MODULES: 2
GREEN CLEANING PRACTICES
This training promotes green cleaning as an important aspect of healthier indoor air quality. The ways in how all organizations can regulate cleaning policies, save money, and bring about a possible change in employee satisfaction and productivity is offered. Learn how to implement green cleaning techniques that include assistance in how to plan for the use of non toxic cleansers and natural ingredients reducing air quality that may result in absenteeism and health issues.
TRAINING MODULES: 2
WATER RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
This training promotes water resources and conservation as a top priority. The need to reduce water use, comply with regulations. save money, and link water conservation to saving on the bottom line. Learn how to implement proper conservation techniques as well as a water conservation plan that explains increasing the reuse of reclaimed water, utilizing rainwater catchment systems, reducing water waste that results in water loss by enhancing inner-organizational education programs.
TRAINING MODULES: 4
ENVIRONMENTAL / CARBON ACCOUNTING
Identify opportunities and take action by implementing an Environmental Management System and Carbon Accounting as part of your Sustainability Plan. Plans should prioritize actions based on the return on investment for taxpayers and meet energy, water and waste reduction targets. Organization’s plans to cut emissions may include: making infrastructure improvements, reducing fossil fuel use and implementing better maintenance practices. This can also be incorporated into procurement plans to help improve the supply chain of products used. Renewable energy systems and energy conservation is explained as it relates to transparency and reporting.
TRAINING MODULES: 5
FOOD SERVICE
This training provides information on how to create an environmentally and socially responsible food system that includes criteria for all purchasing, food preparation and service, presentation, cleaning and waste disposal, equipment and supplies, facility design and renovation and utilities. A review of the process for converting to more environmentally friendly processes, identifying opportunities for significant savings, examining newer products in food ware producing less waste. Detailed sustainability requirements encompass local and organic foods sourcing, waste minimization options, compliance with certification standards, recycling and composting procedures and practices, compostable packaging materials, non-toxic cleaning products, and much more.
TRAINING MODULES: 2
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Incorporating use of renewable energy in Sustainability Planning initiatives is a crucial element in lowing operations and management costs over the long haul. It enables an understanding for all departments in recognizing what renewable resources could be utilized in their daily business practices. Energy planning as well as learning steps in identifying how these natural resources could be used in each type of organization will create a culture of environmental and social responsibility. These are all key components to saving energy and money while preserving computer installations,, HVAC and other communication systems for longevity.
TRAINING MODULES: 3
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Bill McKibben and other Protestors Jailed for their Opposition to the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
As part of a two week wave of peaceful sit-ins at the White House gates, over 2,000 courageous people came from across the US & Canada, to let President Obama know that tar sands oil jeopardizes our future. Specifically, these people are calling for the President to block the fossil fuel industry from building a 2,000-plus mile pipeline to transport tar-sands oil (among the most carbon-intensive of all the fossil fuels) from Northern Alberta all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
As reported in the Guardian, this is “the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in US history.” Even Hollywood stars like Danny Glover, John Cusack, Sophia Bush, and Mark Ruffalo are showing their support by protesting the pipeline.
Help support the protestors who want to stop the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline. These protests will continue over the next two weeks and what the activists in DC need more than anything is the knowledge that there is a massive global movement backing them up.
Here are three ways that you can stand in solidarity with the protestors:
1. Sign the petition to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline, will be delivered to White House officials on September 3rd.
2. Send in a solidarity message or photo to the people taking action at the White House.
3. Take part in Moving Planet -- a worldwide climate rally on September 24 -- and as the 350.org team put it, "move beyond all fossil fuels in the loudest, most beautiful way possible."
© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.
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