WWF-Canada's Green CommUnity School Grants Program

WWF-Canada is in its fourth cycle of the Green CommUnity School Grants Program. Through the support of Loblaw Companies Limited, WWF-Canada will grant $600,000 over three years, up to $200,000 a year, to Canadian elementary and secondary schools.

Chill Out: Climate Action on Campus

Created by the National Wildlife Federation, Chill Out: Climate Action on Campus, is America's first competition and awards program recognizing college and university innovation to reduce global warming pollution.

Fiske's Top 10 Colleges for Environmental Education

Here is a list of the top environmental colleges from the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. This guide is published by former New York Times Education Editor Edward Fiske whose reviews include details on campus life and academics.

Video: Sustainable Case Study: Mount Wachusett Community College

Mount Wachusett Community College in Gardner, Massachusetts moved from being a sustainable laggard to being a sustainability leader. Using innovative financing and thinking, the college switched to renewable energy sources. The campus-wide initiative also transformed the curriculum.

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Video: Colleges and Universities are Crucial to a Sustainable Future

Second Nature, a national non-profit based in Boston, sees schools and students as critical components of achieving their goal of creating a healthy, just, and sustainable society. By transforming higher education, they envision a world in which all current and future humans are healthy, live in socially vibrant communities, and are personally and economically secure within a flourishing and sustainable life support system.

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Video: Green Street Environmental Program

While we expect business and government to play their roles in increasing sustainability, students and others also have a crucial part to play. Green Street is an environmental education program for Canadian Schools that was launched about ten years ago. Green Street brings together environmental educators to explore ways of bringing about a sustainable shift in the way we live. For more information or to join the discussion go to Green Street www.green-street.ca

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Conestoga College Post Graduate Environmental Engineering

Conestoga College in Cambridge Ontario is an environmental engineering college. They offer a program which responds to increased concern regarding the protection and management of the environment.

Top Five Green Master Degree Programs

In 2010, Master Degree Online.com published their list of the five of the best sustainable schools. (This list has been updated by The Green Market for 2011).

Ashridge Masters in Sustainability and Responsibility

This practice based program is for students who want to an education in responsible and successful business. It is intended for people working in businesses, consultants, activists, public sector managers and NGO professionals.

Hult International Business School Launches Master in Social Entrepreneurship

Hult business school has launched a degree at their London campus in the emerging academic discipline of using business solutions to solve social problems. Hult is well known for its one year MBA program which is ranked in the top 30 in the world by The Economist and among the top 100 by the Financial Times.

Online Green MBA Programs

Here is a list of online green MBA programs assembled by The Green Economy Post:

US Green MBA Program Directory

The Green Economy Post, is one of the premiere green and sustainable business sites on the Web, their directory of Green MBAs features profiles of over 80 programs from across the United States.

To find MBA programs click on the state you are interested in from the list below:

World's Best Green MBA Programs

In an article titled The Top 5 Green MBA Programs in America (Probably the World), Karin Kloosterman suggests that despite a slow economy there are opportunities for those with who pursue sustainability oriented degrees. She quotes a Bloomberg Businessweek article about the surge of green MBA programs, "sustainability represents one of the few potential bright spots in an otherwise dismal recruiting environment."

Here are Kloosterman's top green MBAs:

Stony Brook University's Sustainability focused BA Degrees

Stony Brook University now has five new sustainability-focused BA degrees. Stony Brook University's Sustainability Program Director, Martin Schoonen, Ph.D., says, "Our students will be exposed to many of the challenges facing today’s world, and through critical examination explore possible solutions to create and define sustainable models for future generations."

See the program description for each of the five BA degrees: Ecosystems and Human Impact, Environmental Humanities, Sustainability Studies, Environmental Design, Policy, & Planning and Coastal Environmental Studies.

Harvard Corporate Sustainability Distance Learning Course

Harvard University is offering an open enrollment, distance learning course on sustainability. The fall 2011 course is focused on Corporate Sustainability.

This course explores sustainability from a corporate perspective with a focus on the global marketplace. The course covers all three responsibilities of sustainability: environmental stewardship, social well-being, and economic prosperity.

E-Learning Course on the Legal Frameworks of Sustainability

A new online course is being offered for those who want to deepen their expertise by knowing more about the legal frameworks surrounding sustainability. The course is being offered from October 10 to November 4, 2011. The four week e-learning course titled "Legal Preparedness for the Green Economy," costs 350 euros or 505 USD.

The overall objective of this e-learning course is to enable self-paced training which aims to enhance the capacity of legal experts, and those in the public and private sector.

Course Descriptions for Green Courses at San Diego State University College of Extended Studies

Here are the five course descriptions from San Diego State University College of extended studies:
1. Fundamentals of Green Building Design and Construction
2. Green Building Commissioning
3. Introduction to Renewable Energy
4. Energy Efficiency, Evaluation and Design
5. Overview of Sustainability

Green Education at San Diego State University College of Extended Studies

San Diego State University College of Extended Studies understands the value of a green education. The college offers professional Certificates in three sustainable areas: Green building, energy management and sustainable practices. Students also have the option to customize their green courses to better fit their career objectives. These training programs are Military Spouse and Workforce Partnership approved.

Find Sustainable Education at GreenDegreeDirectory

Founded in 2010, GreenDegreeDirectory (GDD) provides educational program listings that teach principles in enhancing social and environmental equity in an easy to use online platform.

At GDD you can search over 2000 programs at 500 schools in 45 countries. You can find green education majors in permaculture, economics, ecology, renewable energy, ecotourism, environmental technology, earth science, Green IT, GIS, aquaculture, resource management, hydrology, sustainable development, and environmental justice. There is even a green education section for K-12.

Sustainability Certificates from Irvine Valley College

Irvine Valley College is a community college that offers Zero Waste certification for people seeking green jobs. Irvine Valley College boasts the leading transfer rate in Orange County and the third best transfer rate among all California community colleges.