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• Environmental
Research Institutes

List Is By Country or Region

(WIKIPEDIA), Sept. 30, 2020 -Here is a list of the world's environmerntal research institutes.

Click now for the list.

• • Tackle Environmental and Social Justice Issues—Locally and Globally

  We Offer the Opportunity For Aspiring Change-Makers to Make a Positive and Lasting Impact On Our Communities and Planet
  
  {UMassBoston}
  
  

  Nov. 26, 2025 - Become part of a diverse community working with progressive community, business, labor, religious and public officials and leaders to advance equity-oriented solutions to our city, region, and globe’s most pressing environmental, economic, and social justice challenges and advocating workable solutions to build, what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. described as “The Beloved Community.”

  Our campus is a living laboratory, within the major city of Boston and surrounded by coastal resources and watersheds. You'll have access to state-of-the-art facilities, research centers, and passionate faculty that support your academic and professional growth. Additionally, through community engagement and outreach programs, you'll have the chance to make a positive impact beyond campus, working towards a sustainable and just future for all.

• • Study Climate Change:

  Science, Society and Solutions

  May 15, 2023, (University of Manchester - Our climate is changing. How we mitigate climate change and adapt to live in a changing climate are fundamental questions for society.

  This interdisciplinary program is led by the Department of Geography, with contributions from around the University, including the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research.

• • Energy and Sustainability (Online Programs)

  100% Online Degrees and Certificates

  August, 2022 (Penn State World Campus), -The global power shift is creating jobs for renewable energy project developers as well as policy experts who can drive clean energy initiatives and encourage a more sustainable culture. Let our online programs help you become an agent of change in the emerging green economy.

  Click now for details.
• • Resources Guide for Solar Energy Professionals

  There Are 50 in this Article

  January, 2021(KIP&ZONEN)-In our globally connected world, we have access to more knowledge than ever before. But finding useful and relevant content can be tricky. We have partnered with experts and technicians across the globe to collect resources that colleagues in your industry are utilizing to make their lives easier. We compiled this list with expert knowledge and want to share these resources with you. Included in our 2021 Brochure Edition for Solar Professionals, you can find:
  
  1. Trending Solar Industry Podcasts
  2. Solar PV Calculators
  3. Educational Solar Resources
  4. Industry Regulations .

  
  Click now to learn more.
• • Teaching Children About Renewable Energy

  A Guide for Parents and Educators

  greener ideal, Aug. 21, 2020 -Recently, renewable energy has skyrocketed to the center of conversations about the environment. Since sustainability and renewables are key for the future, teaching kids now is the right path to take. Bringing them in on these conversations shows them how important renewables are and how they can get involved, no matter their age.

  Click now to learn just what to cover.

• • Code Changes For Solar Installers

  What Solar Installers Need
  to Know about the 2017 National
  Electric Code and its Big
  Changes for the Solar Industry

  The 2017 NEC has more changes than any other version of the NEC since any of us have been alive. Most of those changes are due to what is on the cover of the NEC: a PV system,” says Dr. Sean White, instructor forHeatSpring’s Photovoltaic Systems and the 2017 NEC course, the 40-Hour Advanced Solar PV Installer Training, and others.

• • Commercial Solar Finance (Free!)

  Mastering Commercial Solar
  Finance - Self Study Online

  Solar Executive MBA Training instructors Keith Cronin and Chris Lord answer questions about nonprofit PPAs, and finding, pitching to and managing investors.

  Enroll and you'll access... -Over 2.5 hours of video with Chris and Keith -A comprehensive, downloadable takeaway
  guide -Advice from a $20MM solar tax equity investor [interview]

• • The Sustainable Women Series

  Grid Alternatives:
  Solar Power Ubiquity
  Through Training and Installing

  GRID Alternatives is a national 501(c)(3) certified non-profit organization that facilitates solar power implementation and energy efficiency projects between community partners, volunteers and job trainees. Since its beginning in 2001, GRID Alternatives has installed over 24 MW of clean power, provided almost $200 million in lifetime electricity cost savings, and trained 27,000 people in solar installation. Learn more about the mission to make solar power affordable to all from founder and CEO Erica Mackie

• • Upcoming Classes Calendar

  Our Calendar Showing Classes

  You can see some classes in sustainability and other green subjects.

• • Infusing Climate Change and
  Sustainability Into Med. School Curricula

  Preparing Medical Students to Practice Sustainably

  June 7, 2021 (thebmjopinion), -The climate emergency is a health emergency. This fact is now indisputable and it is common knowledge that climate change and environmental degradation pose an unprecedented threat to human health. Increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, rising global temperatures and sea levels, pollution, and biodiversity loss contribute to considerable morbidity and mortality. The burden of disease will fall hardest on the most vulnerable people and will widen already existing global health inequalities and gaps in healthcare provision.

  The health sector has a considerable impact on the environment, contributing comparable greenhouse gas emissions to the airline or shipping industry and, consequently, exacting a paradoxical toll on global health. While last year marked the unveiling of the NHS’s Net Zero target, which is a great signpost of intent for a national health service, to create genuine change a major educational drive is required to alter behaviors and culture across healthcare.

• • Solar Executive MBA Training

  Solar Executive MBA Training

  During this 6-week online training, You'll find that this comprehensive, technical, and challenging. It’s the most intense six-week course you’ll ever find but also the most valuable. It was developed for leaders who are responsible for the financial details that drive large-scale solar projects

• • Carbon Capture, Utilization & Storage

  Degree, Certificate & Non-
  Degree Program Requirements

  Oct. 19, 2021, (COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESe) -This link shows what you need to know to apply for these certificates.

• • For Educators: Grades 6-12

  It's Critical to Help Students Become Effective Climate Change Communicators

  (Yale Climate Connections), May 28, 2021 -Yale developed materials for teachers who are interested in using our resources in their classrooms, such as the Yale Climate Opinion Maps and Yale Climate Connections. These materials were developed based on recommendations from educators across the United States.

  They aim to immerse students in climate change issues in an accessible, digestible, and interactive way. While these NGSS and Common Core-aligned activities were designed for middle and high schoolers, you can easily convert them to Word documents using free platforms like https://simplypdf.com/ so that you can customize them for your students.

  We’d also love to hear about your experience using our materials with your students! Please fill out this brief survey.

• • Young South Africans Take Up
  Sustainable Agriculture For Food Security

  Aquaponics is Seeing a Revival In South Africa’s Schools, Boosted By Government Support and Climate Concerns
  
  {CLIMATE HOME NEWS}

  June 2, 2026 -In a school in South Africa, a group of students stare at a row of small plants growing in a greenhouse. Each one is involved in the lesson, caring for the growing crops.

  But this is no ordinary classroom setting. These children are learning about aquaponics, a method of growing plants and fish in a mutually beneficial water system. This ancient technique of food production is now being taught to millions of schoolchildren after being introduced by the South African government seven years ago.

• • Fearing Chaos of Climate Change, Some
  Seek Answers in Virtual Classroom

  A Monthlong Seminar Offers Lessons in How to Anticipate and Prepare for the Mounting Disruptions of Global Warming

  
  

  Mar. 21, 2026 -When Jason Haaheim, a principal timpanist for the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, found himself furloughed indefinitely, without an apartment and newly obsessed with climate change during the coronavirus pandemic, he had ample time to think about the fragility of being an artist in an unstable, unpredictable society.

  If a viral disease could displace him and take away his livelihood, so could a natural disaster. He needed a plan.

  So in 2023 he signed up for what was then a new online course, the Personal Climate Strategy Workshop, developed by the futurist Alex Steffen. The monthlong seminar teaches participants how to navigate and prepare for the mounting disruptions of global warming.

• • US Students Learn New Skills as Climate Crisis Intensifies

  The Greening of Career Education

  
  

  Feb. 15, 2026 -On one end of the classroom, high school juniors examined little green sprouts – future baby carrots, sprigs of romaine lettuce – poking out of the soil of a drip irrigation system they built a few weeks prior.

  On the opposite end of the room, a model of a hydropower plant showed students how the movement of water can stimulate electrical currents. In this class in South Carolina’s Greenville county school district, students primarily learn about one topic: renewable energy.

• • How a Radical Experiment to Bringn a Forest
  into a Preschool Transformed Children’s Health

  In Finland, Kindergartens Are Exposing Children To More Mud, Wild Plants And Moss - And Finding Changes To Their Health That Show How Crucial Biodiversity is to Wellbeing
  
  
  

  Oct. 29, 2025 -Aurora Nikula, 5, is having a normal day at her nursery. She is making a cake out of sand and mud, adding in make-believe carrots, potatoes and meat. “It’s overcooked,” she says as she splashes water in, then adds another dollop of sand. “More sugar, it tastes better,” she says. A handful of mud goes in, and the dish evolves into a chocolate cake.

  Aki Sinkkonen, a principal scientist with the Natural Resources Institute Finland, is watching. He’s also very interested in Aurora’s cake, but for different reasons. “Perfect,” he says, admiring the way she is mixing soil, sand and leaves and then putting it on her face. “She’s really getting her hands in it.”

• • A South Bronx Park is a Hive of Activity

  For Bees and for New Yorkers Training for Green Jobs
  
  
  
  

  July 23, 2025 The buzz of bees at Concrete Plant Park in the South Bronx is a hint to some grand ambitions for job opportunities in this once abandoned industrial site.

  For nearly 50 years, the massive silos near the Bronx River were home to a bustling private concrete enterprise. Abandoned in the 1980s, the seven-acre site rotted into a dumping ground, littered with thousands of old tattered tires.

• • Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act
  on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President Says

  Across Five Campuses, the University of Massachusetts System is Incorporating Climate into the Curriculum and Working with State Leaders to Meet Climate Goals
  
  

  Apr. 25, 2025 -University of Massachusetts (UMASS)President Marty Meehan didn’t play it safe when giving his State of the University address at the UMass Boston campus this week.

  Instead of talking about the system’s growing enrollment, faculty achievements or any number of non-controversial topics, Meehan laid out a vision for how the UMass system, with its five campuses and 73,000 students, would cement Massachusetts’s place as a leader in climate tech, sustainability, clean energy and climate justice.