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Clean Energy Scale and Risk Management

Study clean-energy portfolios through technology, resource, permitting, grid, construction, revenue, financing, operations, community, climate, and policy risks.

  • Map a clean-energy project or portfolio across technical, commercial, operational, environmental, and public systems
  • Build a structured risk register with ownership, evidence, mitigation, and monitoring
Advanced secondary to professional foundation
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Sustainability Basics

Build practical understanding of systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement, then use it for evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in systems thinking, resources, environmental limits, social needs, tradeoffs, and measurement
  • Follow a repeatable process for evaluating everyday and organizational sustainability choices
General to university foundations
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Climate Action

Build practical understanding of emissions, adaptation, mitigation, policy, community action, evidence, and justice, then use it for comparing credible climate responses at different scales.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in emissions, adaptation, mitigation, policy, community action, evidence, and justice
  • Follow a repeatable process for comparing credible climate responses at different scales
General to university foundations
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Wildlife Conservation

Build practical understanding of habitats, populations, threats, protected areas, restoration, monitoring, and communities, then use it for understanding conservation choices and their ecological tradeoffs.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in habitats, populations, threats, protected areas, restoration, monitoring, and communities
  • Follow a repeatable process for understanding conservation choices and their ecological tradeoffs
General to university foundations
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Renewable Energy

Build practical understanding of solar, wind, hydro, storage, grids, efficiency, costs, and reliability, then use it for comparing clean-energy systems for different contexts.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in solar, wind, hydro, storage, grids, efficiency, costs, and reliability
  • Follow a repeatable process for comparing clean-energy systems for different contexts
General to university foundations
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Waste and Recycling

Build practical understanding of material flows, reduction, reuse, sorting, recycling markets, composting, and policy, then use it for designing practical waste-reduction plans.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in material flows, reduction, reuse, sorting, recycling markets, composting, and policy
  • Follow a repeatable process for designing practical waste-reduction plans
General to university foundations
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Water Resources

Build practical understanding of watersheds, supply, demand, quality, treatment, ecosystems, and governance, then use it for understanding water challenges and comparing management options.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in watersheds, supply, demand, quality, treatment, ecosystems, and governance
  • Follow a repeatable process for understanding water challenges and comparing management options
General to university foundations
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Sustainable Food Systems

Build practical understanding of farming, supply chains, diets, waste, labor, biodiversity, and resilience, then use it for examining how food choices connect with larger systems.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in farming, supply chains, diets, waste, labor, biodiversity, and resilience
  • Follow a repeatable process for examining how food choices connect with larger systems
General to university foundations
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Green Buildings

Build practical understanding of energy, materials, water, comfort, indoor quality, life cycles, and performance, then use it for evaluating lower-impact building strategies.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in energy, materials, water, comfort, indoor quality, life cycles, and performance
  • Follow a repeatable process for evaluating lower-impact building strategies
General to university foundations
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Environmental Policy

Build practical understanding of standards, incentives, regulation, stakeholders, implementation, evidence, and justice, then use it for comparing public approaches to environmental problems.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in standards, incentives, regulation, stakeholders, implementation, evidence, and justice
  • Follow a repeatable process for comparing public approaches to environmental problems
General to university foundations
Explore Environmental Policy

Biodiversity

Build practical understanding of genes, species, ecosystems, measurement, threats, services, and restoration, then use it for explaining why biological diversity changes and why it matters.

  • Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in genes, species, ecosystems, measurement, threats, services, and restoration
  • Follow a repeatable process for explaining why biological diversity changes and why it matters
General to university foundations
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