Stay Ahead in Sustainability and Green Building

Overview

The world is facing many environmental, economic, and social challenges. Our future depends on sustainable solutions that improve our lives without adversely affecting our ecosystem. Learn about green building, site design, and green building rating systems and credentials such as LEED.

Understand green building and LEED certification and credentialing.
Gain skills and knowledge in environmental sustainability.
Learn sustainable business strategies.

Syllabus

Course 1: Navigating Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Leaders

This course addresses the critical issue of environmental sustainability and what business leaders should consider as they think about their company’s effect on climate.

Course 2: Green Building Concepts Foundations

Discover how to design, build, operate, and certify green buildings.

Course 3: Introduction to LEED Certification

Earn LEED certification for your green building projects. Learn about the LEED rating system, certification process, and available prerequisites and credits.

Course 4: Introduction to LEED Credentialing

Show your understanding of sustainable design and construction by earning a LEED credential. In this course, explore the LEED credentialing process and how to prepare for exams.

Course 5: Cert Prep: LEED Green Associate

Prepare for the LEED Green Associate exam, which gives you credentials that demonstrate core competency in green building design, construction, and operations.

Course 6: Michelle Kaufmann's Platinum LEED Home Remodel: Start to Finish

Watch Michelle Kaufman remodel a home in San Francisco to meet a growing family's needs while earning the US Green Building Council's rigorous LEED Platinum certification.

Course 7: Learning Design for Sustainability

Our future depends on sustainable solutions. Learn why social, economic, and ecological sustainability is important to design and to our world.

Course 8: Fundamentals of Sustainable Supply Chains

Learn the practical foundations of supply chain sustainability and get started on improving your organization’s sustainability performance.

Course 9: Sustainability Strategies

Learn sustainability strategies to reduce your company's carbon footprint, mitigate risk, help your bottom line, and protect your company's brand.

Course 10: The Employee's Guide to Sustainability

A scientist and sustainability expert distills the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals into clear actions for individuals seeking ways to live and work more sustainably.

Taught by

Lucas Joppa, Fulya Kocak Gin, LEED Fellow, Fulya Kocak Gin, LEED Fellow, Fulya Kocak Gin, LEED Fellow, Fulya Kocak Gin, LEED Fellow, Michelle Kaufmann, Scott Boylston, Sarah Barnes-Humphrey Supply Chain Leader, David Bennell and Elizabeth Bagley