10/27/2010: Sustainable Business Professional Certificate Program- Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Assessment Module

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan- Aquinas College
Time: 8am to 11am
Cost: $495 per module or $2500 for the full certificate

With millions of stimulus dollars filtering down from Washington to help promote alternative energy and spur economic development, do you or your employees have the skills portfolio to take advantage of these green opportunities? Let us help you capture the benefits of the changing market place and tap into some of those federal dollars.

Our non-credit Sustainable Business Professional Certificate offered by the Center for Sustainability provides an opportunity for managers and executives at all career stages who wish to deepen their understanding of the fundamentals of sustainable business. In addition to foundational courses, active learning modules focus on topics that will enhance the ability of workplace professionals to deploy new tools, frameworks and organizational strategies, as well as help them serve as change agents to move their organizations to the forefront of sustainability efforts.

The "Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Assessment" module provides an overview of the LCA framework and its integration into existing and evolving sustainable business models. This module will expand understanding of LCA as it has been practiced and new direction for the LCA framework given demands of sustainability as an ecological and strategic imperative for business. It will also work toward an understanding of the specifics of LCA as a tool to enhance product and process innovation within the context of sustainability. Areas of attention will include considerations in setting goals and defining scope in LCA, approaching inventory analysis, analyzing impact and interpreting results.

This program is approved for the No Worker Left Behind Program of Michigan Works! and may be eligible for other worker retraining programs.

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