Since the ENERGY STAR program started in 1992, EPA has worked with business, industry, and government leaders to chart a proven path to financial value and greenhouse gas reductions through strategic energy management. So don’t reinvent the wheel. If you’re just starting out, the ENERGY STAR resources below can give you a big head start in the right direction.

The ENERGY STAR Guidelines for Energy Management
Based on decades of best practices, the seven steps outlined here form the philosophy that underpins the entire ENERGY STAR program for commercial buildings and industrial plants. Put them to work for you

The business case for energy efficiency
Cut costs. Increase asset value. Manage risk. Attract business. Stay competitive. Check out all the reasons for why your organization should build an energy program with help from ENERGY STAR

Strategies and incentives to finance energy efficiency projects
The buck often stops when the time comes to finance a new program. But it doesn’t have to. Overcome obstacles and find solutions to financing energy efficiency initiatives here.http://www.energystar.gov/buildings/about-us/how-can-we-help-you/build-energy-program?s=mega

Build an energy program (navsigma.wordpress.com)
ENERGY STAR in action (navsigma.wordpress.com)
Earn the ENERGY STAR and other recognition (navsigma.wordpress.com)
ENERGY STAR reports (navsigma.wordpress.com)
Improve building and plant performance (navsigma.wordpress.com)
Energy Star Educate (navsigma.wordpress.com)
MISD becomes Energy Star partner (mywesttexas.com)
Energy Star scores for Medical Office Buildings exhibit “grade inflation” (thepragmaticsteward.com)
I am shopping for a new refrigerator. What is the difference between Energy Star “Most Efficient” and CEE “Tier 3”? (greenhomeguide.com)

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Your Passport to SustainabilitySustainability, it’s a journey we are all going to take.

The only question is – “How equipped are we to take it?”

Sustainability brings added profitability, competitive advantage and innovation.

Organizational learning is at the core of these advancements. Only problem – organizations don’t learn – people do.

So get a head start this summer. Take an ON-Demand Sustainability Course (save 50% or more) and start the final quarter with new insights and a roadmap for sustainable competitive advantage.

Offer Expires: August 31, 2013

On Demand Courses

2013

Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Reporting (2013 Update)

GHG Measurement, available ON-Demand, anytime, 2013 Update Now Available

(ON-Demand Course, Available Now)

By the end of this course you will be able to develop your company’s GHG management plan and understand how to quantify, report and verify your total GHG emissions.

Based on the Carbon Disclosure Project, ISO 14064 and Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

Sustainable Procurement 101 (ON Demand)

New – Sustainable Procurement 101 (ON-Demand Course)

New in 2013 – ON-DEMAND Workshop, delivered in 4 sessions at 1.5 hours – edited video webinar format
Available Anytime
Gain Free Membership to SLC Community of Practice for this course
Featured: Sustainable Purchasing Toolkit in Word Format
Past Attendees Include: TD Bank, University of Califonia, Cenovus Energy, Connexions Consulting and others

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Green/Sustainability Project Management (ON-Demand)

Green/Sustainable Project Management New Dates

If you are a Sustainability Project Manager or Project Manager in a company with a sustainability strategy, this program is for you.

Professionally develop your sustainability and project management skills, enhance your career flexibility, and improve your Project Management competency.

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Integrating ISO 26000 into your Management Systems (On Demand)

Learn about this Sustainability Management System

In this course we will show you how ISO 26000 provides practical guidance to the standard measurement and operationalization of Social Responsibility within your company and your supply chain.

We will also demonstrate its value in providing guidance for stakeholder engagement, CSR reports and claims. Business wants guidance on the best metrics to help benchmark, signal commitment to sustainability, and identify areas that need improvement. In this program we will show you how ISO 26000 can provide this guidance.

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Employee Engagement for Sustainability (ON-Demand)

Learn about Community Social Marketing, a Learning Engagement Module for Sustainability and Volunteer Programs

Join a “living laboratory” in this ON-Line Employee Engagement Workshop.

Understand the research and science behind successful principles and practices for employee engagement for sustainability.

Design a program for your company or Green Team and assess your current program against best practices while learning from peers.

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Facilitating Transformational Change for Sustainability I (ON Demand)

“The quality of an intervention is dependent on the interior state of the intervener”, Bill O’Brien.

In this program, Facilitating Transformational Change towards Sustainability (Part I), we share the first 4 of the 9 personal capacities: 1) Being Present, 2) Suspension and Letting Go, 3) Intention Aligned with Higher Purpose, and 4) Holding Paradoxes/Ambiguities and Multiple Worldviews.

We share authentic leadership concepts, self and group facilitation reflection questions, readings and practices for developing your capacities. Essentially, we explore insight to becoming an authentic, effective sustainability leader, from the inside out.

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Facilitating Transformational Change for Sustainability II (ON Demand)

Dana Pearlman from California is our instructor for this course.

In this program, Facilitating Transformational Change towards Sustainability (Part I), we share the first 5 of the 9 personal capacities: 5) Compassion , 6) Personal Power, 7) Whole System Awareness, 8) Whole Self Awareness and 9) a Sense of Humour.

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Developing Green Habits for Sustainability (ON Demand)Using sustainability examples we will examine:

Learn how new “sustainable habits” are formed.

how the brain works to establish and use habits in our daily lives
the elements and workings of the “habit loop”
the power of belief-and the importance of social groups in helping create belief for successful habit transformation
how deliberate group leadership can shape the habits of organizations
how keystone habits, at the center of our personal lives, are pivotal when it comes to larger organizations and how the greatest keystone habit of all: willpower can best be cultivated
how social movements, such as sustainability, tend to follow a three-part process to establish new habits.

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