Sustainable Communities & Development
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Categories: Advanced Degree, General Sustainability, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development, Technical / Certificate
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Wide range of educational offerings: from certificates in climate change, food justice, sustainability and more, to a Master’s in Urban Sustainability or a PhD in Environmental Studies.
Climate change education is essential for addressing perhaps the biggest environmental and social challenge in human history. AUNE’s Department of Environmental Studies is a leader in climate change preparedness and education, as evidenced by the Educators Summit at the Local Solutions: Northeast Climate Change Preparedness Conference. View a video of the first (2014) Educator’s Summit.
The certificate can be completed within 32 weeks. Climate Change Education certificate classes meet one day/week or as intensives, aligned with our current Environmental Studies’ delivery models.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Green Building, Sustainable Communities & Development, Technical / Certificate
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The Sustainable Design Institute at the BAC is dedicated to helping students learn the practices, processes, and materials to create a truly sustainable built environment.
Sustainable Design Programs
We offer fully online, graduate-level courses in a range of subjects: from designing, constructing, and operating buildings to planning communities.
Courses are offered during 8-week sessions in the fall, spring and summer semesters, and can be taken individually or as part of the Sustainable Design Certificate.
Many courses are AIA-approved for continuing education Learning Units.
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Boston University – CHK TO SEE ABOUT CENTERCenter for Energy and Environmental Studies
Contact: Christopher DeVits
School Boston Massachusetts 02215 United Statespostal
Work Fax: 617-353-8399workfax
Work Phone: 617-353-3083work
Work Email: cees@bu.eduINTERNET
Website: http://www.bu.edu/cees/
Website: http://www.bu.edu/geography/
Categories: Advanced Degree, Energy / Efficiency, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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Several undergraduate and graduate degrees engage students in education, research, and professional training in energy efficiency and environmental analysis. The Center is multi-disciplinary and problem-oriented and shares close collaborative ties with other science departments at Boston University.
The educational programs are based on the philosophy that students need a solid training in traditional disciplines, as well as a set of integrative courses that expose students to the broad and systematic nature of environmental problems. The Center’s research programs investigate some of the planet’s most challenging environmental problems.
BA concentrations in environmental science, environmental analysis and policy, human geography, and physical geography
Master of Arts, Energy and Environmental Analysis
Master of Arts, International Relations and Environmental Policy
Master of Arts, Environmental Remote Sensing and GIS
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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Confront poverty and inequality. Create global community.
Heller’s Master of Arts in Sustainable International Development Program (SID) is committed to socially just and sustainable development – which means that we focus on addressing the root causes of poverty and inequality in the world’s most marginalized communities. Together, our community of students, scholars, and practitioners create solutions to the most pressing global issues.
Through this two-year program, students typically spend a year in residence taking classes, then during the second year, complete a six-month practicum in the field and write a final paper. Several track options are available, including a one-year program, a second year in residence and numerous dual and joint degree options.
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City University of New YorkSustainability in the Urban Environment
Contact: Katherine Gloede Silverman
School New York New York 10453 United Statespostal
Work Fax: 718-289-6443workfax
Work Phone: 718-289-5322work
Work Email: mail@csebcc.orgINTERNET
Website: http://www.csebcc.org/
Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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To respond to the increasing demand for a workforce equipped to meet the sustainability challenges of the 21st century, City College of New York offers the Sustainability in the Urban Environment graduate program. This innovative, interdisciplinary program draws upon emerging approaches in the disciplines of architecture, engineering, science, and social sciences.
The Sustainability Masters degree program consists of 30 credits of coursework. All students who successfully complete the program requirements receive a Master of Science in Sustainability degree from CUNY/The City College of New York. As a rule, earning the degree requires at least three semesters of full-time study (typically Fall-Spring-Fall), and more for those who study part-time. Costs of the program will differ depending on whether a student is a New York state resident or nonresident. The tuition rates that apply are those designated “Masters in Architecture & Engineering” in the CCNY schedule of tuition and fees.
Most applicants will hold a Bachelor’s degree in architecture, engineering, or in the sciences from an accredited US college or university. Foreign applicants and applicants with degrees in other fields (e.g. environmental studies or social sciences) may also possibly qualify for admission and are encouraged to apply. For all applicants, the expectation is a cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0. Scores on the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) are not required. More information can be found on the Eligibity & Applications page.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Bachelors Degree, Business Management, Organic Agriculture, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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Sustainable Business at COA prepares students across the curriculum to plan and start enterprises that create change. Students have built schools, farms, a biofuel company, an advocacy group, a community development organization, a high growth sustainable company, art businesses, a film company, renewable energy ventures, a bike taxi company, and a bakery.
If you are seeking to remake the world, the Sustainable Business area gives you the tools and experiences you need to increase your impact. Our classes cover both for-profit and non-profit enterprises and prepare you to work at scales ranging from the local farms, restaurants, arts organizations to the international—global development and advocacy organizations. Classes merge thought and action to address issues confronting organizations, businesses, and sustainable entrepreneurs of all backgrounds.
- Areas of Study at COA aren’t majors or formal concentrations. All COA students design their own major in human ecology and are free to chart their own path. Your major is defined by you, not us.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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Multidisciplinary degree program focusing on the critical issues of sustainability in the world’s largest industry – tourism. It consists of 4 core courses, an independent study, internship and a thesis. Our Center for Sustainable Tourism emphasizes research, policy development and management.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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We offer the only interdisciplinary Masters of Science in Sustainable Tourism degree in the USA.
The program draws upon emerging sustainability sciences ranging from the physical to the social to address complex sustainable tourism issues. Science and education are critical partners in the sustainable, long-term management of tourism.
The program is anchored on four core sustainability and tourism courses: an introductory course; a science course; a business course; and a planning and policy course. Students also choose from a set of electives and can opt for independent study or an internship experience. Both thesis and non-thesis options are offered.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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This program combines hands-on learning and field experience with rigorous training in a broad range of academic disciplines to meet the challenges of our time in sustainable development: global poverty, political and ethnic conflict, a degrading natural resource base, and irreversible climate change.
We aims to produce a new generation of development professionals – prepared and committed to serve as catalysts to help vulnerable, marginalized communities pursue livelihood security, economic opportunity, political empowerment, and enhanced human capabilities.
We have partnerships with international development and research organizations like CARE, the Carter Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Categories: Business Management, Executive Development, General Sustainability, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development, Workshop / Continuing Education
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Offers numerous seminars and programs to help catalyze the potential of motivated individuals seeking to transform their careers, businesses, and communities by becoming leaders in sustainability.
Seminars include: Professional Development for Corporate Sustainable Impact; Sustainable Office Development; Education Innovation; and much more. Programs have an experiential format.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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This graduate program is for impassioned people who want to work towards the creation of a more just, humane, democratic and sustainable world. It is ideal for business people, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, community organizers, environmental stewards and social justice advocates.
This low-residency Masters can be taken as a 48 credit program or as a 1-year, 24-credit certificate of graduate study. Students define their topic of inquiry and then, in close collaboration with a faculty advisor, self-design their own course of study. This approach assures the focus is deeply engaging and meaningful to students’ lives.
The program is designed for working adults. At the beginning of each semester students attend an 8-day residency at Goddard, during which they create that semester’s study plan. They then return home to work independently on their plans, in concert with a faculty advisor.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Business Management, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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In this low-residency 48-credit Masters program in Sustainable Business and Communities, students will learn how the concerns of social responsibility, sustainability, and social justice are inextricably linked. Communities around the world continue to become increasingly interconnected around issues of human rights, the distribution of wealth, climate change, and ethical leadership. The allocation of resources, the drive of the world’s people for self-determination, and the long-term vitality of the planet require new and innovative solutions to these social, political, economic, and environmental issues.
A Bachelors in Sustainability is also offered, and, students can also choose to pursue a one-year, 24-credit certificate of graduate study in Sustainable Business.
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Graduate School of Management, Clark UniversityMBA/MA in Environmental Science & Policy
Contact: Patrick Oroszko
School Worcester Massachusetts 01610 United Statespostal
Work Phone: (508) 793-7543work
Work Fax: (508)793-8822workfax
Work Email: apotts@clarku.eduINTERNET
Website: http://www.clarku.edu/gsom/graduate/esp/
Categories: Advanced Degree, Business Management, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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This program combines MBA requirements with advanced coursework in the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.
Named one of the top 16 schools to study green business by Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review, the program focuses on three signature areas:
•Environment and Human Health
•Climate, Energy and Sustainability
•Environmental Management and Policy
Students learn how to use technology to reduce the impact of economic growth on the environment, enhance community development, and alleviate poverty.
Graduates are poised for leadership in environmental consulting firms, international development companies, corporate social responsibility, government agencies and nonprofit groups around the world.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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The Master of Arts in Global Leadership and Sustainable Development prepares students to lead change initiatives in a globalizing world increasingly characterized by chaos, complexity, and change. 42 semester hours of graduate work are required.
Graduates learn to lead change initiatives designed to enhance environmental performance, convert economic development into sustainable development, and increase environmental sustainability in all human systems. Students simultaneously search for the underlying causes of global environmental, economic and social problems, while also learning to design and lead initiatives that produce sustainable outcomes for the current and future generations.
The Certificate in Global Leadership prepares students for key positions across a wide array of organizational and institutional types: including international organizations, transnational corporations, and international nongovernmental organizations.
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Culinary Arts – Vail Valley program
Colorado Mountain College
Home Phone: 970-569-2920home
Personal Email: trymer@coloradomtn.eduINTERNET
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Categories: Associates Degree, Organic Agriculture, Sustainable Communities & Development, Technical / Certificate
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The Culinary Arts – Vail Valley has been at the forefront of teaching Sustainable Cuisine and Foodservice Operations.
If you are interested creating food for healthy people and a healthy planet, this is the place for you. Take classes in Sustainable Cuisine and Foodservice. Engage with faculty already deep in sustainability practices.
- You can earn an AAS Culinary Art Degree in six semesters and come away with resume-building job experience and contacts.
- CMC’s Partners: The Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch, Sonnenalp Hotel and Vail Resorts
Semester by semester your schedule is arranged for the best mix of classes and jobs, studying and practicing.
- Courses are coordinated with CMC’s culinary program and our resort partners. The CMC Program Director works directly with the resorts’ culinary professionals to align work experiences with course learning objectives.
- You’ll study with CMC’s professionally experienced faculty and work with culinary professionals who are developing the next generation of innovative chefs. All in the beautiful Vail Valley.
Culinary Arts Certificates can be earned as well!
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Categories: Advanced Degree, General Sustainability, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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This three-year full-time MA degree program in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology is composed of four key elements: transpersonal and contemplative orientation; theoretical, experiential and clinical training courses; the counseling experiential; and the internship.
Grounded in nature’s ability to nurture spirituality and human wholeness, the wilderness therapy program offers theoretical and practical experience in counseling psychology, adventure therapy, ecopsychology, ecology, outdoor skills and leadership.
Also offered is a MA in Environmental Leadership: a two-year, 39-credit residential program that prepares the next generation of innovative thinkers and activists to lead organizational and community transformation toward an environmentally just and sustainable society. In the second year, students apply their leadership skills to a collaborative project within an organizational or community setting. Most classes are scheduled to accommodate working students.
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Ozarks Center for Sustainable Solutions, Drury UniversityEnvironmental Sustainability Certificate
Contact: Amy Strickland
School Springfield Missouri 65802 United Statespostal
Work Phone: 417.873.7054work
Work Fax: 417.873.7435workfax
Work Email: astrickland@drury.eduINTERNET
Website: http://www.drury.edu/ces
Categories: Executive Development, General Sustainability, Sustainable Communities & Development, Technical / Certificate
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This 5-day Certificate of Environmental Sustainability program, designed for students and working professionals, is an opportunity to explore the knowledge, methods, and tools necessary to develop or improve sustainability programs, as well as gain practical experience of an environmental sustainability project/program for their organization or community.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Sustainable Communities & Development
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The first fully accredited PhD program in Sustainability Education. This low-residency four year program offers foundational interdisciplinary courses along with individually-designed course work and a dissertation/project that supports change for a sustainable, socially just, and secure global society.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, Business Management, Policy, Sustainable Communities & Development
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Our highly successful, ground-breaking Sustainable Management degree provides the means to see and act on opportunities for innovation and impact that improve our economies, our environment, and our society. Our MBA or MPA graduate degree in sustainable solutions bridges the gap between commerce and the common good.
PGS embeds sustainability into every course. Through our leading Experiential Learning program, students apply sustainability and social responsibility frameworks and methods to real cases in large and small companies, government agencies and nonprofit organizations.
The residencies in our hybrid format are taught in San Francisco. You also choose the length of time you wish to take for your education, full time or part-time.
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Categories: Advanced Degree, General Sustainability, Sustainable Communities & Development
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This program is designed to produce environmental leaders with the skills to address our rapidly increasing environmental problems. Graduates will have the tools to critically evaluate our society’s current interactions with the environment and will have the knowledge and experience to lead others as we find ethical and equitable solutions to our environmental challenges. The program is best suited to individuals with a background in geography, geology, biology, environmental studies or science, or related fields.
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