Sustainable Business Practices Program

Bellevue CollegeMarika Reinke

NEW PROGRAM

Agenda

• Employment Trends• Sustainable Business 101• Sustainable Business Practices Program

Offerings @ Bellevue College

EMPLOYMENT TRENDS

A Growing Trend

“Over the past decade, sustainability has moved from the fringes of the business world to the top of shareholders' agenda….”

PriceWaterHouseCooper 2009

% Growth of Jobs requiring Business AND Sustainability

Greenbiz.com Survey Demand for Sustainability Knowledge

Sustainablity Knoweldge is Valuable Demand for Knowledge Would Rise in 5 Years

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90% 85%

78%

1,300 business professionals

Washington State

• Seattle Climate Partnership– Over 100 businesses – Eastside Partnership in works

• 2nd Annual Green Washington Awards. – The 147 entries in every industry sector

• 2008 Green Economy Jobs in Washington State.– 47,000 people in green jobs, with approximately

87 % full-time workers

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS 101

System in Crisis

• Climate Change• Energy• Resources Consumption• Financial Crisis & Recession• Access to Water• Food Crisis• Poverty

Why Business?

• “Business is the force of change. Business is essential to solving the climate crisis, because this is what business is best at: innovating, changing, addressing risks, searching for opportunities. There is no more vital task.” Richard Branson

What is sustainable business?

• Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

1987 Bruntland Commission UN

People Profit Planet – The Triple Bottom Line

Innovation & Opportunity

Shareholder

vs Stakeholder

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently”

Warren Edward Buffet

(US stock broker, US representative, self-made billionaire and philanthropist)

Examples

Patagonia“We believe in using business to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis.”

InterfaceFLOR“Mission Zero means taking the time to understand the natural world and all of its species and to understand how everything we do, take, make and waste affects nature's balance and, ultimately, our children and the children of all species.”

Wal-Mart

GE Eco-Imagination

Tools

• Recycling/Upcycling• Zero Waste• Cradle to Cradle• Closed Loop Supply Chain• Design for Environment• Biomimicry• Energy Management• Resource Management• Eco- Efficiency/Effectiveness• Dematerialization• Natural Step ™

• Eco-Labels• LOHAS• ISO, GRI, CSR• Life Cycle Assessment• Carbon Footprint• Ecological Footprint• Socially Responsible

Investing (SRI)• LEED• Carbon Cap and Trade• Architecture 2030

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS PRACTICES (BSUST) PROGRAM

Bellevue College Sustainable Business Practices

• Practitioners - weekly lecturers• Program advisory board and ties to industry• Great education & teaching based on project based

learning• Using technology in the courses to enhance learning

Sustainable Business PracticesTwo Program Options

• 19 credits• Fall 2010• 2 quarters• Professionals

Best Practices

Certificate

• about 90 credits• In development• About 2 years

Associate Degree

Sustainable Business Best Practices Certificate

Understand

Measure

Translate

Recommend Leverage

Report

Integrate

Certificate Courses

BSUST 101 • 5 CR • Introduction to

Sustainable Business Practices

BSUST 150 • 5 CR • Introduction to

Carbon Footprint & Resource Economics

BSUST 110 Communication for

Sustainable Business Practices • 4 CR

BSUST 160 Sustainable

Business Analysis • 5 CR

Fall 2010: Tuesday & Thursday Nights

• Understand & Recommend• Overview/Frameworks• Case Studies• Market Pressures• Terms

• Measure & Report• Carbon & GHG Analysis• Cap & Trade • Resource Economics

Winter 2011

• Translate & Educate• Implementation• Market/Advertise

• Analyze & Recommend• Leverage & Implement• Account & Audit

Sustainable Business Practices Degree (2 Years)

Understand

Measure

Translate

Recommend Leverage

Report

Integrate

Strategy & Implementation

Economics of Sustainability

Marketing & PR

Triple Bottom Line Accounting

Energy Systems

Practicum

Ethics & Legal Regulations

Green Supply Chain Business Skills

Social Equity & Capitalism

Environment & Resources

Sustainable Business PracticesTwo Program Options

• 19 credits• Fall 2010• 2 quarters• Professionals

Best Practices

Certificate

• about 90 credits• In development• About 2 years

Associate Degree

For more information contact

Marika Reinke at

mreinke@bellevuecollege.edu

or 425-564-5716