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Course Work
• Tackle Environmental and Social Justice Issues—Locally and Globally We Offer the Opportunity For Aspiring Change-Makers to Make a Positive and Lasting Impact On Our Communities and Planet {UMassBoston} Nov. 26, 2025 - Become part of a diverse community working with progressive community, business, labor, religious and public officials and leaders to advance equity-oriented solutions to our city, region, and globe’s most pressing environmental, economic, and social justice challenges and advocating workable solutions to build, what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described as “The Beloved Community.” Our campus is a living laboratory, within the major city of Boston and surrounded by coastal resources and watersheds. You'll have access to state-of-the-art facilities, research centers, and passionate faculty that support your academic and professional growth. Additionally, through community engagement and outreach programs, you'll have the chance to make a positive impact beyond campus, working towards a sustainable and just future for all. • Study Climate Change: Science, Society and Solutions May 15, 2023, (University of Manchester - Our climate is changing. How we mitigate climate change and adapt to live in a changing climate are fundamental questions for society. This interdisciplinary program is led by the Department of Geography, with contributions from around the University, including the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. • Energy and Sustainability (Online Programs) 100% Online Degrees and Certificates August, 2022 (Penn State World Campus), -The global power shift is creating jobs for renewable energy project developers as well as policy experts who can drive clean energy initiatives and encourage a more sustainable culture. Let our online programs help you become an agent of change in the emerging green economy. Click now for details. • Resources Guide for Solar Energy Professionals There Are 50 in this Article January, 2021(KIP&ZONEN)-In our globally connected world, we have access to more knowledge than ever before. But finding useful and relevant content can be tricky. We have partnered with experts and technicians across the globe to collect resources that colleagues in your industry are utilizing to make their lives easier. We compiled this list with expert knowledge and want to share these resources with you. Included in our 2021 Brochure Edition for Solar Professionals, you can find: 1. Trending Solar Industry Podcasts 2. Solar PV Calculators 3. Educational Solar Resources 4. Industry Regulations . Click now to learn more. • Teaching Children About Renewable Energy A Guide for Parents and Educators greener ideal, Aug. 21, 2020 -Recently, renewable energy has skyrocketed to the center of conversations about the environment. Since sustainability and renewables are key for the future, teaching kids now is the right path to take. Bringing them in on these conversations shows them how important renewables are and how they can get involved, no matter their age. Click now to learn just what to cover. • Code Changes For Solar Installers What Solar Installers Need to Know about the 2017 National Electric Code and its Big Changes for the Solar Industry The 2017 NEC has more changes than any other version of the NEC since any of us have been alive. Most of those changes are due to what is on the cover of the NEC: a PV system,” says Dr. Sean White, instructor forHeatSpring’s Photovoltaic Systems and the 2017 NEC course, the 40-Hour Advanced Solar PV Installer Training, and others. • Commercial Solar Finance (Free!) Mastering Commercial Solar Finance - Self Study Online Solar Executive MBA Training instructors Keith Cronin and Chris Lord answer questions about nonprofit PPAs, and finding, pitching to and managing investors. Enroll and you'll access... -Over 2.5 hours of video with Chris and Keith -A comprehensive, downloadable takeaway guide -Advice from a $20MM solar tax equity investor [interview]		• The Sustainable Women Series Grid Alternatives: Solar Power Ubiquity Through Training and Installing GRID Alternatives is a national 501(c)(3) certified non-profit organization that facilitates solar power implementation and energy efficiency projects between community partners, volunteers and job trainees. Since its beginning in 2001, GRID Alternatives has installed over 24 MW of clean power, provided almost $200 million in lifetime electricity cost savings, and trained 27,000 people in solar installation. Learn more about the mission to make solar power affordable to all from founder and CEO Erica Mackie • Upcoming Classes Calendar Our Calendar Showing Classes You can see some classes in sustainability and other green subjects. • Infusing Climate Change and Sustainability Into Med. School Curricula Preparing Medical Students to Practice Sustainably June 7, 2021 (thebmjopinion), -The climate emergency is a health emergency. This fact is now indisputable and it is common knowledge that climate change and environmental degradation pose an unprecedented threat to human health. Increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, rising global temperatures and sea levels, pollution, and biodiversity loss contribute to considerable morbidity and mortality. The burden of disease will fall hardest on the most vulnerable people and will widen already existing global health inequalities and gaps in healthcare provision. The health sector has a considerable impact on the environment, contributing comparable greenhouse gas emissions to the airline or shipping industry and, consequently, exacting a paradoxical toll on global health. While last year marked the unveiling of the NHS’s Net Zero target, which is a great signpost of intent for a national health service, to create genuine change a major educational drive is required to alter behaviors and culture across healthcare. • Solar Executive MBA Training Solar Executive MBA Training During this 6-week online training, You'll find that this comprehensive, technical, and challenging. It’s the most intense six-week course you’ll ever find but also the most valuable. It was developed for leaders who are responsible for the financial details that drive large-scale solar projects • Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage Degree, Certificate & Non- Degree Program Requirements Oct. 19, 2021, (COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESe) -This link shows what you need to know to apply for these certificates. • For Educators: Grades 6-12 It's Critical to Help Students Become Effective Climate Change Communicators (Yale Climate Connections), May 28, 2021 -Yale developed materials for teachers who are interested in using our resources in their classrooms, such as the Yale Climate Opinion Maps and Yale Climate Connections. These materials were developed based on recommendations from educators across the United States. They aim to immerse students in climate change issues in an accessible, digestible, and interactive way. While these NGSS and Common Core-aligned activities were designed for middle and high schoolers, you can easily convert them to Word documents using free platforms like https://simplypdf.com/ so that you can customize them for your students. We’d also love to hear about your experience using our materials with your students! Please fill out this brief survey.

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• How a Radical Experiment to Bringn a Forest into a Preschool Transformed Children’s Health In Finland, Kindergartens Are Exposing Children To More Mud, Wild Plants And Moss - And Finding Changes To Their Health That Show How Crucial Biodiversity is to Wellbeing Oct. 29, 2025 -Aurora Nikula, 5, is having a normal day at her nursery. She is making a cake out of sand and mud, adding in make-believe carrots, potatoes and meat. “It’s overcooked,” she says as she splashes water in, then adds another dollop of sand. “More sugar, it tastes better,” she says. A handful of mud goes in, and the dish evolves into a chocolate cake. Aki Sinkkonen, a principal scientist with the Natural Resources Institute Finland, is watching. He’s also very interested in Aurora’s cake, but for different reasons. “Perfect,” he says, admiring the way she is mixing soil, sand and leaves and then putting it on her face. “She’s really getting her hands in it.” • A South Bronx Park is a Hive of Activity For Bees and for New Yorkers Training for Green Jobs July 23, 2025 The buzz of bees at Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx is a hint to some grand ambitions for job opportunities in this once abandoned industrial site. For nearly 50 years, the massive silos near the Bronx River were home to a bustling private concrete enterprise. Abandoned in the 1980s, the seven-acre site rotted into a dumping ground, littered with thousands of old tattered tires. • Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President Says Across Five Campuses, the University of Massachusetts System is Incorporating Climate into the Curriculum and Working with State Leaders to Meet Climate Goals Apr. 25, 2025 -University of Massachusetts (UMASS)President Marty Meehan didn’t play it safe when giving his State of the University address at the UMass Boston campus this week. Instead of talking about the system’s growing enrollment, faculty achievements or any number of non-controversial topics, Meehan laid out a vision for how the UMass system, with its five campuses and 73,000 students, would cement Massachusetts’s place as a leader in climate tech, sustainability, clean energy and climate justice. • The Role of Green Education in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals A Review {ScienceDirect} Mar. 20, 2025 -• Green education uses participatory methods to teach sustainability and empower learners for a sustainable future. • Green education boosts SDGs by enhancing health, learning, energy efficiency, and job creation. • Green education impacts sustainability, including green consumption and renewable energy awareness. • Green education advances SDGs through formal integration, behavior change, and multidisciplinary approaches • Fossil Fuel Industry Influence in Higher Education: A Review and Research Agenda Sep. 5, 2024 < WIREs CLIMATE CHANGE > -The evolution of fossil fuel industry tactics for obstructing climate action, from outright denial of climate change to more subtle techniques of delay, is under growing scrutiny. One key site of ongoing climate obstructionism identified by researchers, journalists, and advocates is higher education. Scholars have exhaustively documented how industry-sponsored academic research tends to bias scholarship in favor of tobacco, pharmaceutical, food, sugar, lead, and other industries, but the contemporary influence of fossil fuel interests on higher education has received relatively little academic attention. • Climate Fellows and Fellowships Here are the 2024 Awardees July 22, 2024 -Inside Climate News (ICN) is proud to support the careers of emerging journalists across the country through our fellowship program. Fellows are critical to our reporting efforts, bringing new perspectives and fresh eyes to the work of our newsroom. Click to view the portraits of the winners. • Training Workers for Green Jobs New NOAA Initiative Will Provide $60 Million in Funding July 8, 2024 -In American Samoa, sea level is rising at four times the global average. This increases the Pacific Ocean island’s risk of saltwater intrusion, which can contaminate freshwater supplies, a problem it currently faces. Vacancies in American Samoa’s only agency managing water—the American Samoa Power Authority—are leaving a shortage of people to tackle these climate issues. The vacancies are also leaving a newly built filtration plant without 24/7 staffing.		• MIT’s Sloan School Launches Ambitious Climate Center An Aid for Policy Makers Mar. 13, 2024 -An ambitious new climate change initiative at MIT’s Sloan School of Management seeks to harness the collective knowledge of the university to help tackle the climate crisis by connecting current and future climate research to policy. “MIT is never better than when we come together to solve big problems,” MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a video announcing the launch of the Climate Project. • Clean Energy Pursuits by a PA College Campus New Ground is Being Broken Feb. 27, 2024 -In the basement of Swarthmore College’s dining hall, a transformation is underway. As students eat lunch upstairs, beneath their feet, the school’s fossil fuel past is being replaced with its clean energy future. Off a cavernous, buzzing space that will eventually house the plant at the heart of a new geoexchange system for heating and cooling the college, dusty old pipes, first installed more than a century ago as part of a natural gas-powered steam system, sit alongside shiny replacement pipes, which will soon carry hot and chilled water across campus. • Those Rare Earth Metals in Your Junk Drawer And That's a Good Thing Jan. 22, 2024 -They’re critical for renewable energy, and a new study says recovering them from old cellphones and other waste could help meet the demand. Only about 1 percent of rare earth metals in old electronic products are currently reused or recycled, researchers estimate. • Reading, Writing, Math … and Climate Change? A Growing Number of States Seek to Incorporate Climate Change Into School Lesson Plans Jan. 22, 2024 -Third graders at Public School 103 in the north Bronx sat on a rug last month while their teacher, Kristy Neumeister, led a book discussion. The book, “Rain School,” is about children who live in a rural region of Chad, a country in central Africa. Every year, their school must be rebuilt because storms wash it away. • Smart Grid Modeling Collaboration Launched in Appalachia Tennessee Tech University is Leading a Three-Year Project Across Appalachia to Develop Smart Grid Modeling and Testing Services. Jan. 18, 2024 -Tennessee Tech University is leading a three-year project across Appalachia to develop smart grid modeling and testing services. Click now for the rest of the story. • ComEd’s Career Training Program For Clean Energy Transition The First Graduating Class Dec. 5, 2023 -ComEd announced the first graduating class of the 10-week Power Up Academy, a new career training program launched in partnership with local workforce agency Revolution Workshop to prepare job seekers for entry-level technical-related roles to support the clean energy transition in Illinois. Click now for the rest of the story. • Texas Don't Need No Climate Textbooks Republican-Controlled School Board Votes to Ban Them Nov. 17, 2023 -Republican-controlled education board voted on Friday not to include several climate textbooks in the state science curriculum. The 15-member board rejected seven out of 12 for eighth-graders. The approved textbooks are published by Savvas Learning Company, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Accelerate Learning and Summit K-12. • Florida Does Not Have a Monopoly on 'Woke' Texas Republicans Target Climate Science in Textbooks Ahead of Education Board Vote Nov. 10, 2023 -Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend state school districts to use a batch of new science textbooks, which include accurate descriptions of the causes and effects of climate change.

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Youth Taking Action for Nature Encouraging young people to take personal action to nurture and protect a healthy environment on which all life depends.	Improving Energy Efficiency• Empowering schools through energy efficiency
A green school is a healthy environment conducive to learning while saving energy, resources and money. • The U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools awarded Green School the “2012 Greenest School on Earth". This was an affirmation of the program we provide to enrich and nurture our students.	Become a Cimate Reality Leader Join the millions using their voices and everyday choices to tackle the climate crisis. Just click on the logo to sign up.
Earth University Consortium for Sustainablilty Hosted in Costa Rica, this study abroad program is the result of a long–standing partnership between EARTH University and renowned US universities. Participate with us and expand your cultural boundaries, place yourself ahead of the curve as a professional, and return to your country ready to make a difference.	Eco-Scools USA (sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation) Protecting Wildlife, Inspiring Future Generations: As in nature, we have strength in numbers. National Wildlife Federation works closely with those who span the social and political spectrum, but who are connected by a common commitment to conservation. Our ability to meet the needs of wildlife is inextricably linked to the amazing individuals, groups, organizations and corporationswe call our supporters. Together, we form a pack, leveraging our influence to safeguard America’s wildlife and wild places.
Search Online for Engineering Degree Programs Environmental engineers play a very important role in helping to provide future generations with the same environment that we have today. As we continue to learn more about the environment and the effects the world population is having on it, environmental engineering is become a much more popular field. It is considered to have one of the highest growth rates out of all of the types of engineering fields according to Engineering com , so the future is bright. Engineering.com	Environmental Science Degrees and Careers Those who study environmental science gain a profound understanding of the interconnected systems of the Earth, as well as develop the analytical and problem-solving skills that are needed to tackle the greatest challenges facing the environment today, in order to ensure a better future.
BS Degrees with a Major in Alternative and Renewable Energy Management As our modern-day society seeks to be more responsible with our natural resources and less dependent on unsustainable sources of energy, the need for competent professionals with an alternative and renewable energy management degree is on the rise.	EPA Sponsored Classroom (Environmental Kids Club) Games, pictures and stories
The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) —a research institute of the University of Central Florida (UCF) As Florida's energy research institute — with a 35-year history of unique expertise, experience and infrastructure — we are leading research and development efforts to bring our vision of Energy Independence to fruition.	Living Wise - Water Wise - Energy Wise Learning to conserve water and energy
Global learning and observations to Benefit the Environment Worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program	Preparing Environmental Stewards for the 21st century Click the logo to download environmental activities and content.
Green Schools Initiative The Green Schools Initiative was founded in 2004 by parent-environmentalists who were shocked by how un-environmental their kids' schools were and mobilized to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools in the U.S. We believe it is essential to protect children's health - at school and in the world beyond school - and we work to catalyze and support "green" actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to reduce the environmental footprint of schools...	Kid-Friendly Guide to Earth-Friendly Living Learn: Get informed about environmental issues so that you can make the best eco-friendly decisions for yourself and your family. Surf the web, pick up a good book (pick up your copy of The Green Parent), or watch a movie (try The Inconvenient Truth or Who Killed The Electric Car?) to arm yourself with knowledge and ideas. Vote: Use the power of the ballot box to send a clear message to elected officials about your environmental concerns. Browse the environmental record of potential candidates at the League of Conservation Voters and be sure to let them know what you think. Get Involved: Get involved in the environmental issues that affect your community. Organize a recycling center or used clothing drop-off location. Encourage your local utility company to offer discounts or rebates on energy and water-saving products. Lead a trash clean-up day. Or, write an editorial letter to your local paper about the environment initiatives that could give your community a boost.
Welcome to the Greenest School on Earth Green School in Bali, Indonesia provides a natural, holistic and student-centered education in one of the most amazing environments on the planet.	The Environmental Fellows Program Harvard is committed to fostering the development of talented scholars with an interest in environmental research. The Environmental Fellows at Harvard work with some of the University's leading faculty, creating linkages across research disciplines and professional schools, and benefit from all that Harvard has to offer.
A Series of Courses (Building and powering a cleaner future through education technology) HeatSpring’s education marketplace offers hundreds of online courses in solar, wind, microgrids, green building and other renewable energy technologies. Any qualified expert can build a course and reach anyone in the world. To learn more, click • here.	NIEHS Kids Pages Games, stories, riddles, songs, laughs and more
Renewable Energy and Sustainability Systems Portfolio Policy changes, technological advances, and an increased awareness of the world's resources are creating a growing need around the globe for advanced expertise in renewable and sustainability systems. There is an urgent need to prepare professionals who can serve as leaders of the emerging "green" economy.	Marine Education and Awareness By creating and working with the “Marine Educators Network of Northern Peru”, we are connecting over 30 educational institutions and schools and sustainably strengthening teaching in marine education. Our large efforts with children and youth expect to reduce anthropogenic threats to coastal and marine environments in the next decades, time when most of our beneficiary students enter the economically active population.

Rainforest Heroes - Kids the Earth Can Count On (and more) How we can all get involved in addressing the environmental issues of the planet	Environmental Education Projects for young people
Courses Offered and Links to Others Offering Energy Education galore!	Design Courses SMA Solar Academy Become a solar expert. Comprehensive range of seminars on photovoltaics
University of Florida UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County provides practical education you can trust, to help people, businesses and communities solve problems, develop skills and build a better future. This service is a partnership between the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Sarasota County. For regular updates on the latest news and happenings at UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County, sign up to receive our e-newsletters. An Equal Opportunity Institution. Extension Service, University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Nick T. Place, Dean. Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy by clicking • here.	School for the Environment Environmental challenges don’t recognize disciplinary boundaries. Neither does UMass Boston's School for the Environment. We are dedicated to ensuring a sustainable world through our research and academic programs in urban planning, community development, environmental science, marine science, environmental studies, and sustainability.
Solar Training Featuring, among others, PV101: Solar Fundamentals	Advanced Technologies in Real-Time Data in Basic and Water Science A national Curriculum for High Schools and Colleges
Earth Day Every Day A site for teachers and students	> Green Education Do things differently by seeing things differently