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.

© 2011, Richard Matthews. All rights reserved.

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Video: Sustainable Leadership from Higher Education

"We're in a very exciting time in thinking about conservation and sustainability. Higher education has to lead the way, and college presidents need to step up and demonstrate that they're willing to make this commitment."

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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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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.

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: