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Unit 3: Energy Management and Business Response to Climate Change |
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This unit considers business threats and opportunities resulting from climate change, as well as strategies for becoming carbon neutral. Topics will include energy sufficiency, conservation, and efficiency; renewable energy; carbon off-sets; risk management and power portfolio diversification; energy procurement; energy management; and government resources on the web.?Tools introduced in earlier units -- carbon footprinting and greenhouse gas inventories ? will be explored in more detail. NOTE: you must register no later than Friday, October 30 to participate.
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Nancy Artz, Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern Maine. Nancy teaches online courses in triple-bottom-line business and consumer behavior at the undergraduate and MBA levels. She is active in USM's efforts to reduce its carbon emissions, audit its sustainability performance, and train faculty in sustainability teaching. Her research often examines social marketing and the environment, including a study with the Maine DEP on using the internet to foster sustainable behavior in employees and consumers (Journal of Marketing Communication, 2007 and Competition Forum, 2005). Other scholarship includes her book, 301 Great Customer Service Ideas, NIST-funded research on quality awards, and articles in Greening of the Campus, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Annual Review of Psychology, and Marketing Letters. Before earning her doctorate in Marketing from Northwestern University in 1989, she was a marketing research consultant.
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Registration has ended. Please browse courses for future offerings of this course.
$100
(4 contact hours/ 0.4 CEUs)
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