Interested in expanding your knowledge of sustainability? As sustainability issues become increasingly pressing, consumers are demanding more responsibility, transparency, and accountability from organizations. By weaving sustainability efforts into the fabric of your everyday goals and situating them at the forefront of value creation, your organization can successfully adapt to this demanding and rapidly changing landscape.
ONLINE CERTIFICATESAs sustainability becomes a key component of today’s decision-making processes, corporations must respond by developing initiatives and making business decisions that illustrate their commitment to sustainable business activity.
In this certificate, you will frame this challenge and assess your company’s sustainability practices relative to industry standards, implement sustainability initiatives, and develop a future-focused sustainability strategy that capitalizes on market opportunities.
To begin, you will critically examine the sustainability-based interactions among corporate entities, their peers, regulators, the public, and other stakeholders in order to identify opportunities for improving the outcomes of these interactions. You will then assess the ways that corporations manage reputational risk by communicating their sustainability efforts and propose initiatives that bolster your organization’s sustainability credentials.
Finally, you will focus on building a business case by proposing specific ways your company can capitalize on sustainable opportunities. By the end of this certificate program, you will be well equipped to guide your teams toward sustainable solutions that enable your organization to thrive.
As sustainability issues become increasingly pressing, consumers are demanding more responsibility, transparency, and accountability from organizations. By weaving sustainability efforts into the fabric of your everyday goals and situating them at the forefront of value creation, your organization can successfully adapt to this demanding and rapidly changing landscape.
This certificate program will prepare you to evaluate your organization’s current sustainability efforts, identify gaps and opportunities, and create unique solutions to drive organizational value. You will gain insights into your organization’s competitive approach by assessing environmental and social sustainability throughout the life cycle of a product or service and leveraging research-based frameworks and methodologies to ideate solutions that turn sustainability problems into market opportunities. You will also explore how aligning stakeholder relationships enhances your ability to achieve profitability and sustainability goals. With these strategies and best practices, you will be uniquely positioned to create a sustainability implementation plan tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
When designing a planting plan, you want to ensure it is not only aesthetically pleasing but also sustainable. The success of any planting design will ultimately be dependent upon knowledgeable site assessment and analysis, appropriate plant selection, soil remediation, and clear communication of design intentions. This certificate program will familiarize you with woody plant identification, appropriate plant use, and design and landscape establishment in various human-impacted landscapes. By engaging in the practice of site assessment and related planting design you will formalize your ability to identify and select landscape plants, evaluate soil, and create a new planting plan. This program will supply you with critical new insights, skills, and principles to form practical and sustainable landscapes wherever you may be.
The program covers landscape design with woody plant types; it does not cover design with herbaceous plants.
The courses in this certificate program are required to be completed in the order that they appear.