Graduate Programs in Sustainability

The Construction Management Department at Colorado State has a Masters program in CM with an emphasis in sustainable building. http://www.cm.cahs.colostate.edu/Graduate_Program/grad_SBE.stm

Thanks & Adios,
CJD ----

Carol J. Dollard, P.E., LEED AP
Utility Engineer
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I am currently taking classes through the Harvard distance learning program that will eventually lead to a Masters in Environmental Management with a concentration in sustainability. All but one of the classes needed for a masters degree can be completed online, so in addition to the students who attend in person the classes often include students from all over the world participating over the internet. Harvard also offers an environmental management graduate certificate program that can be completed entirely online. The class sessions are video recorded each week and can be viewed online by registered students. Information can be found at: http://www.extension.harvard.edu/envr/default.jsp. Duke also has a great program that can be completed online, http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/del/del-mem/.

All the best,
Bob Hollis

Robert W. Hollis,
CEO Carnegie Partners, LLC
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The Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University offers a Masters degree.

Regards,
Jan

Jan Aceti
Aceti Associates
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Arlington, MA 02474-6809
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Fax: 914-931-2038
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Mickey,

Harvard University Extension School has a Certificate in Environmental Management that can be earned online. They also offer a Masters in Liberal Arts (ALM) in Enviro Mgmt, but you have to spend a bit of time on campus in Cambridge to get the Masters. I am in the ALM program and have found it to be terrific. They have their own professors, but also bring in guest lecturers for many of the classes from the other Harvard Schools (Kennedy School, School of Public Health) and government officials. Their website is http://www.extension.harvard.edu/envr/

Best of luck,
Suzanne Farver
Woody Creek, CO

I just completed an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio School of Management in San Francisco. It's an excellent program, with staff who are very experienced and active in their field, a cohort based class grouping, full or part time options, and it's largely online, with a monthly 4 day in person session, allowing people from all over the country to attend. There's even one student who comes from Paris! I've finished this with a wide ranging knowledge of sustainable business, and business in general, and much more confidence/ competence then when I began. Definitely recommended. www.presidiomba.org

Paul Smith

2007 MBA, Sustainable Management
Presidio School of Management
510.420.0878
psmith{at}presidiomba.org

Hi Mickey,

I went to a fabulous program in Sweden called "Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability". It was mainly taught by Karl Henrik Robert, the founder of The Natural Step Framework. They also gathered an amazing array of international professors. The program was innovative, progressive, life changing and very educational. You can learn more here: http://www.bth.se/tmslm You can also look at my blog from my thesis to get an idea of how we applied our learning: http://www.partnerships4SSD.blogspot.com I am open to answering any questions you may have. Cheers, Miriam P.S. These are other programs to check out too: Bainbridge Graduate Institute (BGI) which offers an MBA in Sustainable Business http://www.bgiedu.org/ Presidio School of Management which offers an MBA in Sustainable Management http://www.presidiomba.org/ The GreenMBA which offers an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise http://newcollege.edu/mba/ http://www.greenmba.com/

Miriam Karell

Three Point Vision
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415-318-9719
www.threepointvision.com
Research: http://www.partnerships4SSD.blogspot.com

The open University in the UK have a very good series of environmental & sustainability courses & programs at all levels : http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/classifications/environment_courses.shtm including: MSc in environmental decision making http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q01F13 and MA in Environment, policy & society http://www3.open.ac.uk/courses/bin/p12.dll?Q01F19

Patricia Barnes,

Senior Partner, Barnes and Jeffreys,
Sustainable Business Solutions
6965 Marine Drive,
West Vancouver, BC, V7W 2T4 '
Phone: (604) 922 0163
Cell: 778 288 8731
Web: www.BarnesandJeffreys.com
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We aren't in the US but in Western Australia we have established undergrad and postgrad programmes in Sustainable Development and ESD, as well as a Masters in Sustainable Planning which started this year. Many units are available externally. Checkout www.sustainability.murdoch.edu.au

Best wishes
Sally Paulin

Institute for Sustainability and Technology
Policy Murdoch University Western Australia

I would recommend an MSc course in the UK at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales if the building and energy side of things are of interest. The course is titled MSc Architecture: Advanced environmental and energy studies. http://www.cat.org.uk/msc/home/index.tmpl cheers

Rupert Beck

If anyone is interested in going to Sweden, the Engineering School at Blekinge Institute of Technology offers an international masters program in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (taught in English) , based on the Natural Step framework (http:// www.thenaturalstep.org). Their URL is http://www.bth.se/tmslm.

Dr David Sinclair
Public Health Medical Specialist

In the June 23 posting, a question was asked about masters programs in sustainable communities. Please check out: gaiauniversity.org

Larry Hutchinson
 

the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is just launching a program that includes sustainability. Here is the link for the announcement. http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/apr07/institute040207.html

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"...if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it..." - the Dalai Lama

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Melissa McCullough
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US EPA / OAQPS
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NC 27711

Portland State University offers a graduate certificate in sustainability and a MEd in Leadership for Ecology, Culture, and Learning which is a sustainability education program. They also have an urban planning program and an urban studies program that infuse alot of sustainability theory and practice.

Can't go past Westerna Australian Murdoch University's Institute for Sustainable Technology Policy programmes!!! Best in the world (according to the ISTP!!!). I'm currently doing a bachelor of arts in sustainable development, and loving it! :-)