Cultivate - A Personal Sustainability for Professional Growth Course
On-Demand Courses
Give yourself the knowledge and tools to live better and lighter on our shared planet. Through award-winning multimedia content, interactive exercises and self-assessments, this course motivates and measures sustainable behavior change. You will be guided to identify your values and link them to sustainability measures you can take. You will then create a personalized sustainability action plan, which you will start implementing mid-course. A behavior self-assessment taken at the beginning and end of the course will provide an estimated reduction of your carbon and water footprints, validating and reinforcing ongoing and sustainable behavior change.
The knowledge and resources you gain from this course—global systems awareness, a growth mindset, solution frameworks and empathy for the struggles and cares of others—can also be directly applied to your professional setting—at home, in the office or wherever your career may take you.
Course access will be provided by the TripleWin team within 48 hours of purchase. Access to this course will be available for 1 year from the date of purchase.
The Cultivate course consists of 10 modules. Each self-paced module takes about 2-3 hours to complete (20-30 hours total). Additional resources and materials are provided, so you can deep-dive into topics of special interest.
- Module 1: Foundations to Sustainability & Behavior Change
- Module 2: Your Travel & Transportation Modes
- Module 3: Energy Use
- Module 4: The Food You Eat
- Module 5: Your Material Goods & Consumption
- Module 6: Your Waste
- Module 7: Water Use
- Module 8: Your Home & Property
- Module 9: Land & Biodiversity
- Module 10: Taking Sustainable Action
Modules 2 through 9 are also available in the ISSP course directory as stand-alone courses. Each module is packaged together with Module 1 and Module 10, providing a foundation to sustainability and support for taking action on the categories of impact you are most passionate about. See directory for details.
This course supports UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.8, which states that “by 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature.”
- Learn what successful behavior change is and how our everyday decisions are linked to climate change, human rights and the social and environmental justice movements.
- Build your own sustainability action plan for all major categories of impact you can have in your personal life—from how you travel, to the food you eat, to how your home generates and uses energy. Choose the actions that align with your values and start implementing them mid-course.
- Take a personal impact assessment before and after the course, showing an estimated reduction in your carbon and water footprints from actions taken during the course.
- Gain the confidence to take meaningful action in your personal life and the foundations for supporting and catalyzing change in your organization.
- Prospective sustainability professionals who are new to sustainability concepts
- Experienced sustainability professionals wanting to broaden their knowledge or apply a “personal sustainability” lens to their work
- Business leaders wanting to understand the links between individual behavior and organizational sustainability and/or to integrate sustainability into team culture and operations
- Anyone interested in living their values while living well
Following the successful completion of the course, students will receive a Certificate of Completion, indicating knowledge of core sustainability concepts and best practices.
Completing these modules earns 5 CEU credits for SEA and SEP credential holders.
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*This course is being offered via a partnership with TripleWin Advisory. Please note that by purchasing this course you are consenting to ISSP sharing your name and email address with TripleWin Advisory in order for them to provide access to the course. Your information will not be used for any other purpose.
