Rhode Island College Outreach Programs Now Offers
Green Business Certification
Two Ways To Go Green With What does Outreach Programs
Employment Training Provide?
A Green Business Certificate Program will start in Fall, 2009, Training for Unemployed, Under-
at RIC Outreach Programs. This curriculum is devoted solely to
training employees how to establish and run a green office. In employed and Dislocated Workers
addition, Outreach Programs provides a Green Certification
Component to each participant enrolled in any of the other C
lassroom and Lab Environments
training programs offered.
This initiative will not only help our environment, but also as- M
ac and PC Computer Labs
sist all industry sectors in becoming more eco-friendly. In set-
ting a proper example to the students, the Program’s staff will O
ccupational Training
learn sustainable eco-friendly business practices. Students will
be trained in the following areas: W
ork-Related Curricula
E
lectronic Business Communications S
upport Services to Employees and
tilizing Green Business Efforts
U Employers
S
tate & Federal Guidelines for a Green Business
and Economic Actions for a Green Planet I
nternships
E
nergy & Water Efficiency / Pollution Prevention J
ob Placement Assistance
H
ow to Implement Ecological Friendly Changes in
C
ase Management
an Organization
The advantages of being Green Business certified in today’s job E
nglish as a Second Language (ESL)
marketplace will set our graduates apart. Call today to learn
more about Outreach Programs and how you can create 6
Month Programs With Varying
your own career path.
Weekly Hours
About the Green Certificate Program’s Creator
F
inancial Assistance Available!
Glenn Bachman, CMC, AICP, is president of Raven Business
Group, LLC, a management consulting firm in Massachusetts. Please put this paper to
Combining his 30 years of experience in strategic thinking, good use! If you can’t use the
environmental management, and systems analysis, Bach- information, please give it to
man’s practice has evolved into sustainability consulting: as- someone who can, or recycle it.
sisting organizations that desire to become more ecologically Thank you.
and socially responsible, while maintaining their profitability.
He is the author of “The Green Business Guide.”
For Outreach Program Information, contact:
Jenifer Giroux, Interim Director
Direct phone: (401) 456-9762, Email: JGiroux@ric.edu
Building 8 • East Campus • 600 Mt. Pleasant Avenue • Providence, RI 02908
Check out all of our programs: www.ricoutreach.org