EcoPotential » Triple Bottom Line http://ecopotential.net Helping you on your road to sustainability Thu, 17 May 2012 21:22:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Earn CE hours for GBCI Credentialing Maintenance Program http://ecopotential.net/2012/04/earn-ce-hours-for-gbci-credentialing-maintenance-program/ http://ecopotential.net/2012/04/earn-ce-hours-for-gbci-credentialing-maintenance-program/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:27:34 +0000 Karen Stewart, LEED AP http://ecopotential.net/?p=1291

Northwest Arkansas Community College and EcoPotential are excited to announce that our summer training schedule has been updated and includes LEED curriculum from USGBC and will be taught by USGBC LEED faculty!
Below are courses that will be included in the LEED curriculum at the Northwest Arkansas Community College.  Courses are 1 to 2 day workshops and open to the public.
Check out our latest training flyer for more details.
You can pre-register for these courses at http://ecopotential.net/training/

COMMERCIAL COURSES

  • LEED 101: Green Building Basics and LEED
  • LEED 201: Core Concepts & Strategies
  • BD+C 251: Understanding the BD+C LEED Rating Systems
  • BD+C 301: Implementing BD+C LEED Rating Systems
  • O+M 251: Understanding the O+M LEED Rating System
  • O+M 301: Implementing the O+M LEED Rating System
  • ID+C 301: Implementing the ID+C LEED Rating System
  • ND 251: Understanding the LEED for ND Rating System
  • ND 301: Implementing the LEED for ND Rating System
  • Healthcare 251: Understanding the LEED for Healthcare Rating System
  • Retail 251: Understanding the LEED for Retail Rating Systems

RESIDENTIAL COURSES

  • LEED 101: Green Building Basics and LEED
  • LEED 201: Core Concepts & Strategies
  • Homes 252: Understanding the LEED for Homes Rating System
  • Homes 301: Implementing the LEED for Homes Rating System
  • REGREEN 301: Implementing Residential Remodeling

 

 

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Take our Green Training Survey

EcoPotential is always looking for opportunities to exceed the training needs of green building and sustainability professionals.  Our courses are taught mainly in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

Whether you are an architect, engineer, contractor, educator, city planner, building owner, Walmart supplier, etc., continuing education in the areas of environmental, financial and social sustainability is most likely in your training goals.

Although we offer the most popular green training courses, we want to customize our offerings to exceed your training needs.

If you have 2-3 minutes, complete this 5 question training survey and we’ll get busy providing the classes that you want.

]]> http://ecopotential.net/2011/06/green-training-survey/feed/ 0 The Triple Bottom Line Cost of our Fossil Fuel Addiction http://ecopotential.net/2009/11/the-triple-bottom-line-cost-of-our-fossil-fuel-addiction/ http://ecopotential.net/2009/11/the-triple-bottom-line-cost-of-our-fossil-fuel-addiction/#comments Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:02:58 +0000 Karen Stewart, LEED AP http://ecopotential.net/?p=180 The mission of EcoPotential is to improve the quality of life through green building and sustainability education and practices. Within the DNA of sustainability is the Triple Bottom Line (TBL).  What is the Triple Bottom Line?  Simply put, it is the expansion of our traditional accounting systems to include the environment and people when calculating our return on investment (ROI). TBL accounting requires that we invest not only in financial, but environmental and social capital as well.  Often the TBL is referred to as Social, Economic and Environment or People, Profit and Planet.  Click  Triple Bottom Line to learn more.

When we continue to harvest and burn fossil fuels irresponsibly, we are focused only on the financial bottom line or economic return on investment. The social impacts of environmental degradation and dependency on foreign oil should be considered in the ROI calculation.

The documentary, Crude, considers the environmental and social impacts of our fossil fuel addiction.

The documentary is about a landmark case between 30,000 indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador and the oil giant, Chevron.
“The plaintiffs allege that the pollution has created a “death zone” in an area the size of Rhode Island, resulting in increased rates of cancer, leukemia, birth defects, and a multiplicity of other health ailments.” Of course, there is much debate on both sides of the lawsuit, as there will always be when large amounts of money are at stake.

Crude: Movie Trailer 

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