ESPE-6905: Facilitating Organizations Towards Sustainable Practices

This course is based on the premise that the material and energy flow throughout one’s home, business or community is part of a greater life cycle which stretches from raw material extraction through the manufacturing stages and onto consumer and post-consumer stages. Each stage of the life-cycle consumes energy, releases carbon and other pollutants to the environment. Students will learn the specific quantification and assessment skills to model beneficial changes in standard operating procedures, change in technology and/or change in production inputs that leads to a more sustainable utilization of resource and reduction in pollutants. Specific skills include learning how to map a system’s process flow, quantify inputs and outputs, translate proposed beneficial changes into avoided-cost and reduced economic
Min. Credits: 1.0
Credit Basis: Semester credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ New England
Method(s): Classroom
Course Type Environmental Studies

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ESPE-6905: Facilitating Organizations Towards Sustainable Practices