Bristol Community College – A Case Study
Join our audio-visual tour as we explore this sustainability project.
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Courses
The Museum of Tomorrow – A Case Study
This project is also LEED platinum certified and hence we will look at the score card and identify the points it has earned under the LEED credit categories.
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Walt Disney’s Sustainability Initiatives: A Case Study
This course serves to focus on the Walt Disney Company’s contributions to global sustainability concerning their methods of construction and operation.
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Coastal Resilience Part 2: Rain or Shine
In Part two, will investigate natural methods of coastal protection, learn about an innovative new rating system for waterfronts the Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines (WEDG), dive into some real life examples of coastal protection, and discuss the importance community resilience in coastal areas.
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Coastal Resilience Part 1: Troubled Waters
In part one of this course, we will define resilience, examine the impact of climate change on coastal communities, discuss the different types of risk that coastal communities face and investigate standard engineered coastal protection methods.
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Mindfulness, Meditation and Sustainability: What is the Connection?
Join us as we explore this topic through an article and an audio conversation between Jeslin Varghese and Paulina Marinkovic.
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REACHING NIRVANA: THE CASE STUDY OF AMARAVATI
Amaravati is a very special city for India and global environmentalists. Situated on the Krishna River, it is the greenfield new capital of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, but that is only part of the story.
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A Basic Run Down on Green Stormwater Infrastructure Part 2
In this course, we focus on the use of green infrastructure systems to manage stormwater run-off from urban and agricultural areas. We discuss how natural water cycles are disrupted by land-use change and how green stormwater infrastructure systems can be a cost-effect solution to mitigate water pollution while providing co-benefits to local communities. Objectives Learn
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A Basic Run Down on Green Stormwater Infrastructure Part 1
Green Infrastructure was a part of human society long before the term green infrastructure was coined, but it is becoming an increasingly important tool as our population grows and land-use change threatens the natural areas we rely on for essential ecosystem services. In this course, we focus on the use of green infrastructure systems to
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WEDG: Improving Resilience, Ecology, and Waterfront Access + Case Studies
In this course, we discuss the core values of WEDG and learn how the changes it promotes can improve urban waterfronts. We’ll explore three outstanding WEDG certified projects which demonstrate the diverse ways in which these guidelines can be applied.
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