Education Resources for Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention

• Many resources for training on Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention are available on the Greatest Hits CDROM.
   

• The Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence (C2E2) is perhaps the leading network organization.  It supports environmental professional networking, information exchange, the development of professional resources and tools, and the advancement of innovative regulatory models.
   

• US EPA's Sector Strategies for Colleges and Universities is a primary high-level coordinating program that conducts conferences and offers benchmarking resources.
  

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) is a membership-based association of colleges and universities working to advance sustainability in higher education in North America.  The website includes a sustainability policy bank, a campus sustainability professionals page, interest groups, publications, classroom resources, and useful links for virtually every aspect of campus operations.
   
• Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association has policy and benchmarking projects for EHS professionals on campus.
   
• Green Teacher magazine is oriented to elementary and secondary education and has many resources.  See the Periodicals page for links to many other academic and education journals.
   
• The Sustainable Campuses project in Canada aims to empower students to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social, ecological and economic sustainability through campus operations, curricula and community member attitudes.
   
• The Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities is a regional network for collaboration.
   
• 4th international conference on environmental management for sustainable universities for a broad audience from university, business, government and non-government organizations.
   
• The World Resources Institute sponsors the BELL Network (Business/Environment Literacy and Leadership), which supports business education about sustainability. The site has a compendium of case studies and resource collections for teachers. The BELL Program publishes the report "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" about the state of environmental management education in leading business schools.
   
• The Green Business Network is related to the BELL network.  It is developing training programs focused on small business and environmental performance.
  
  
• The Center for Sustainability Systems offers an extensive collection of bibliographies and teaching compendia about pollution prevention and sustainability, including Powerpoint slide shows about major topics.
  
  
• International Association for Business and Society studies the relationship between management and its social context.
   
• The Foundation for Business and Society has several online courses on Sustainability, including Corporate Social Responsibility, the Sustainable Business Challenge and several others.
  
  
• Learning for a Sustainable Environment is an online course for teachers.
  
  
• Environmental Practice at Work is an excellent online learning course covering many aspects of business and the environment, with learning modules, examples and more.
  
  
• University Leaders for a Sustainable Future assists colleges and universities in making sustainability an integral part of curriculum, research, operations and outreach.  Their website has an extensive database of resources.
   
• The Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability publishes reports on integration of sustainability into all levels of education, including academic and industrial education
   
• The UK government created a Sustainable Development Education Panel to explore how to bring sustainability into education, and created a code of best practice for it.
  
  
• Download Software for Environmental Awareness from the US EPA, including PC and Macintosh programs on pollution prevention, solid and hazardous waste, water conservation, agriculture, energy and more.
  
  
• Environmental Software for Kids includes several programs related to Cleaner Production, and not just for kids!

Degree Programs

The World Resources Institute produces a directory and evaluation of US MBA business schools teaching about business and the environment.

CP and P2 and business/environment are now relatively common topics in various university programs.  Here is a list of some relatively prominent degree programs specifically for Cleaner Production and/or Pollution Prevention. 

• International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund
• University of Massachusetts at Lowell
• Erasmus University at Rotterdam
• Curtin University at Perth
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Cleaner Production and Pollution Prevention for College Campuses

• This site´s page of General Information on CP and P2 has much useful information for campuses.
  
  
• EPA New England's College and University Home Page has extensive resources on pollution prevention, Environmental Management Systems, compliance, and links.  Another EPA regional office also has a page for Universities.
  
  
• Campus Pollution Prevention Information Resources has a good collection of links.  So does this site.
  
  
• Campus Ecology is a program for greening of college campuses. 
  
  
• The Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence is a group of universities sharing information about how to improve environmental aspects of operations.
  
  
• A Case Study at the University of Michigan describes in detail how a P2 assessment was carried out and the results implemented.
  
  
• The Environmental Compliance & Pollution Prevention Training Manual for Campus-based Organizations (PDF format report) includes a summary of regulations, environmental compliance requirements, and pollution prevention methods for operational and facility maintenance personnel on campuses.

Cool Tools

Chronos is an e-learning tutorial on the business case for sustainable development - how to convince your boss and co-workers.

The Sustainable Development Planner is a free software tool (MS Access) for detailed strategic planning, + guide to other key SD tools