This program has been designed to help individuals better understand how economic activity – and the programmatic decisions it drives – may impact the health of the environment and society. The course will examine how and why natural resources are often undervalued or ignored completely by traditional accounting practices and economic data. It also will discuss why natural assets, such as clean air and water, tend to be abused precisely because they are the “common property” of society at large.

Featured Topics

• What is sustainability—and why should we care?
• Why people, communities, and nations overwhelm natural resources
• Global climate change—real numbers and predicted costs
• Industrial ecology—how does it fit in?
• Systems analysis and process improvement—evaluating what YOU do

• Who Should Attend?

  If you are completing the NJ Recycling Certification Program in order to become a Certified Recycling Professional, you must take this course. Current Certified Recycling Professionals and Certified Public Works Managers can also take this course to earn recertification credits, as well as anyone else who is interested in learning more about the topic of sustainability.

   

  
  Contact Carol Broccoli to Register

• Email: carolbr@njaes.rutgers.edu
  Phone: 848-932-7207

  In addition to those enrolled in the NJ Recycling Certification Series, this course can be taken by active CRPs who would like to earn CRP recertification credits.