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Bioremediation
Curriculum Project
Under
the Bioremediation Curriculum Development Project, the Environment
Project conducted a national assessment of bioremediation
training and education and assessed niche training markets
not met by existing education and training networks. Project
findings indicated the existence of five bioremediation stakeholder
groups for whom education and training programs would be appropriate.
These five groups included bioremediation technicians, regulators,
environmental engineers, consultants and landowners. However,
due to relative immaturity of bioremediation technologies,
non-standardization of processes and variance of task level
assignment within project teams, development of technician
level training curriculum did not seem appropriate. Further,
though advisory committee validated project approach, markets
for bioremediation services, and therefore education and training,
began to diminish due to uncertainty of the Superfund program.
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outcomes specific to this project.
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Environmental
Curriculum Integration
The
future of environmental education is the integration of environmental
concepts into other, more traditional disciplines, such as
math, physics, chemistry, and business. The need for such
environmental curriculum integration is becoming increasingly
clear. While society has made progress in dealing with specific
environmental issues and problems since the first Earth Day
nearly thirty years ago, many environmental problems, particularly
those of a global scale, have emerged. To combat such problems,
specialized environmental education is required for individuals
interested in careers protecting the environment as well the
instruction of environmental concepts throughout many other
related disciplines. The mission of the Environmental Curriculum
Integration Project is to foster integration of environmental
curriculum into more traditional disciplines, particularly
those within the math and sciences, but also within business,
ethics, sociology and other relevant schools of thought. Click
here for a list of activities and outcomes specific to this
project.
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Industrial
Ecology Curriculum Project
Recognizing
the need for industrial ecology curriculum at the community
college level, the Industrial Ecology Curriculum Project began
in the fall of 1997. The Environment Project was chosen by
the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
to serve as the lead community college for the project because
of the unique and successful business partnerships and linkages
developed at the college and the experience developing innovative
environmental science curriculum.
The
goals of the Industrial Ecology Curriculum Project: were to:
- foster the principles of industrial ecology which can
help businesses preserve and enhance the environment through
wiser materials use, product design, energy efficiency,
waste reduction, and pollution prevention, and;
- transfer the expertise and knowledge of corporate environmental
leaders to help medium and small businesses improve their
economic and environmental performance through industrial
ecology initiatives.
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here for a list of activities and outcomes specific to this
project.
For more information on this project, click
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Green
Supply & Management Training Initiative
The Environment Project along with
District V of the National Association of Purchasing Management
(NAPM) collaborated on the Green Supply and Management Training
Initiative. The goals of the Green Supply and Management Training
Initiative were to:
- to increase awareness of green procurement opportunities;
- disseminate information about existing green procurement
networks and resources;
- provide green procurement case studies & examples;
- create a network of green procurement agent, and;
- develop and conduct a pilot training program on Green
Procurement for Supply Management Professionals to be
offered at the community college level.
Working in close coordination with NAPM representatives,
Environment Project staff developed a Green Procurement
Curriculum and piloted a Green Buying workshop in July 2000.
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and outcomes specific to this project.
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Maryland
Energy Institute
The Environment Project helped
bring The Maryland Energy Institute to the Catonsville campus
in 1997. The Institute is a statewide energy initiative
begun in the early 1990's. The Institute at Catonsville
offered several workforce-training programs. Business and
institutional energy managers and chief executive officers
attended these programs and courses. The Institute operated
out of the Environment Project from 1997 to 2000, and has
since relocated to Howard Community College.
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Maryland
Green Printers Initiative
The
Environment Project launched the Maryland Green Printers
Initiative in 1996 to catalyze adoption of green printing
practices, processes and technologies. Partnering organizations
for the project included Printing Industries of Maryland,
the Maryland Department of the Environment, U.S.E.P.A. Region
3 Pollution Prevention Office, and the Printing Technology
Program at CCBC-Catonsville. Activities completed as part
of the initiative included the development of a Green Printing
Bibliography & Information Resource Guide, a listing of
Maryland Printing Technology Education and Training Programs,
and the creation of a "Green" Printers Industry Advisory
Board. The results of the project were also incorporated
into the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education
national green printing workshop series. Click
here for a list of activities and outcomes specific to this
project.
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Online
Environmental Management Systems Course
Smaller
firms face a variety of challenges while striving to be
good environmental stewards and competing successfully in
the marketplace. These companies are often suppliers to
multi-national corporations, many of which require their
suppliers to either meet the company's environmental standards
or those required by ISO 14000 certification. To assist
small and medium sized firms in improving their environmental
performance and achieve ISO 14000 certification, the Environment
Project developed on on-line Environmental Management Systems
course. The course has been offered in the Fall 2002 and
Spring 2003 semesters. Click here
for a list of activities and outcomes specific to this project.
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Pollution
Prevention Curriculum Development
The
objective of the Pollution Prevention Curriculum Project,
which began in 1996, was to develop a community college
based pollution prevention course, course materials, and
resource guides. Project outcomes include:
1. The Pollution Prevention:
Catalysts for Change Workshop (September 1995)
2. A Source Reduction: Less Waste in the First Place Workshop
(April 1996)
3. The U.S. European Environmental Technology Brokerage
Event (June 1997)
4. The Pollution Prevention Industry Overview Workshop (October
1997)
5. Environmental Performance and Training Needs Assessment
Statewide Survey (Fall 1996)
6. The development of a new community college course entitled
"Introduction to Pollution Prevention".
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here for a list of activities and outcomes specific to this
project.
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Recycling
and Waste Minimization Curriculum Development
The
Recycling and Waste Minimization Curriculum Project was
a joint partnership between CCBC-Catonsville, Westchester
Community College in New York, and Richland Community College
in Dallas, Texas. The project resulted in the development
of a new community college course entitled "Solid Waste
Management, Minimization, and Recycling". Activities related
to this project were completed in 1996.
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Statewide
Energy Pollution Prevention Program
The
lack of comprehensive, pro-active strategies and mechanisms
to use energy wisely has enormous environmental and public
health implications. Emissions from energy-using activities
are altering atmospheric chemistry and these changes result
in environmental impacts at local, regional, and global
scales. Energy combustion and use is directly related to
fuel-related impacts on drinking water quality, on-going
difficulties in achieving federal urban air quality mandates,
as well as increasing atmospheric acidification and its
associated terrestrial and marine ecosystem effects. The
Environment Project received a grant from the US Environmental
Protection Agency, Region 3 Office for a project entitled
"Statewide Energy Pollution Prevention Program"(SEPPP).
The
goals of SEPPP are to:
1.
Address environmental and health impacts of energy use,
particularly global warming,
2. Improve
economic performance by alternative energy technologies
and management strategies.
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