Students in this course learn how to analyze emerging innovative technologies and practices comprehensively, how to assess their climate change and health impacts, recommendations to facilitate their implementation, and how to use green and social financial instruments to foster equitable social development while decreasing community vulnerabilities and increasing climate change resilience. Among some of the technologies and practices analyzed are advanced low-energy desalination systems, rainwater traps, advanced sustainable aquaculture systems, sustainable irrigation and soil reforming for sustainable agriculture, techniques to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in meat and protein production, biodegradable solar systems, bladeless wind generation technologies, microalgae farming for food and fuels, biodegradable plastics manufacturing, plasma gasification of agricultural and municipal waste for electricity generation, carbon capture and sequestration technologies in power plants, lithium extraction from fossil saltwater in fracking operations, advanced hydrogen production systems using renewable energies, and advanced electric vehicles and geoengineering technologies. Students also assess community vulnerabilities and recommend risk reduction technologies and practices to increase resilience. Additionally, students learn how to monetize health, environmental, and social benefits for each technology or sustainable practice to use municipal bonds, green financing mechanisms from banks, carbon offset exchanges, and some government grants to fund their implementation in the community.

This course helps develop the skills to design, fund, and implement renewable energy projects in the United States and around the world. It is aimed at anyone who would like to understand the relationship between energy and the environment, but is particularly helpful for energy developers and current or future professionals in the practice of renewable energy. Students learn the basics of how to design photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, small-hydro, waste water to energy, solid waste to energy, and other large scale sustainable energy operations. Students also learn about the best global practices for engaging rural and indigenous communities in renewable energy projects while maximizing economic development and social equity. They learn how to deal with other important issues like negotiating land rights for renewable energy projects, how to encourage public utilities and private corporations to sign long-term agreements for purchasing renewable energies, how to prepare project proposals for international financial institutions and private investors who fund these projects, how to estimate the basic health and environmental benefits derived from proposed renewable energy projects, how to monetize health effects of renewable energy projects, and how to quantify the social benefits of such projects in the community.

This course is for anyone who would like to learn how to design and launch a new product with the lowest environmental footprint. Students acquire many tools and skills in the course: how to do market intelligence (technological benchmarking and reverse engineering), how to incorporate real sustainability into new products (and identify green washing), how to use structured tools to enhance creativity and innovation to conceive and develop new products, how to design and implement a new product introduction process, how to do and implement the design of experiments to select the most robust features for products, how to write and submit a patent application to decrease legal costs, how to protect copyrights and trademarks, how to fund intellectual property by using funds from business incubators and accelerators, how to select the right materials and processes to minimize the product's environmental impacts (using green chemistry principles, sustainable sourcing of components, and sustainable certification for raw materials to promote conservation), how to reduce energy use by new products, how to build and test prototypes in an inexpensive way, and how to reduce the environmental impacts of packaging and transportation. Students also learn the basic components of an innovation ecosystem and how high technology hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York work. For more information about this course, click in the following link:http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14518/2016

This course helps students to develop skills to improve the sustainability of manufacturing and supply chain operations. Some of these skills are: Select the right level of automation for a manufacturing operation based on product types and market stability, how to design a manufacturing layout to minimize waste and maximizing sustainability, how to manage a supply chain including vendor certification and the use of logistics to enhance sustainability, how to reduce costs by decreasing energy and resource use while improving production yields, how to design and implement a continuous improvement program, etc. For more information, please click in the following link:http://my.extension.harvard.edu/course/ext-14010/2016

With the increased awareness of the impact that business and economic activity have on our planet, we are seeing a boom in entrepreneurial activity premised on social responsibility, environmental friendliness, energy efficiency, and other sustainability-related attributes. This course seeks to examine the trends in green business, and to identify which activities are based on enduring principles and which are likely to be fleeting. Through conversations with local entrepreneurs, case studies, and lectures, this course provides students with an introduction to the principles of sustainable business, and the opportunity to look at a variety of new businesses, business models, and technologies that may play a role in an energy- and resource-constrained future.

I'm Assistant Director of the Sustainability and Environmental Management Program at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, we have 300+ master students from more than 50 countries and 48 U.S. States in our program. We offer degree programs in sustainability and environmental management for working professionals interested is corporate sustainability, renewable energies, carbon credits, conservation, management of environmental ecosystems, etc.

This course examines the relationship between SDGs, community problems and current sustainable and social technologies and practices to serve as a starting point for developing new solutions that might serve as the business or social cases for new startups in health, sustainability or social ventures which might help to reduce vulnerabilities and increase community resilience. Students from Harvard University and graduate schools in affiliated institutions of higher learning assess community needs, prepare climate change vulnerability and resilience enhancement plans, design health and social solutions to problems to serve as the business case for sustainable startups, develop business or social plans for potential investors, engage the community into participating in developing and implementing solutions and in recommending frameworks to enhance sustainable and social entrepreneurship in a community.Some of the topics for this course are:- Sustainable Development Goals as drivers of healthy and socially just sustainable initiatives- Assessment of health and environmental benefits of new ideas to achieve SDGs based on scientific tools developed by public health professionals- Assessment of community vulnerability and resilience development to the effects of climate change- The process of identifying and understanding community needs to engage people into participating in achieving the aims of SDGs- The process of creating social, health or sustainability startups based on SDGs, community needs and climate change preparedness activities- The process of using health and environmental benefits of sustainable or social value propositions to strengthen the business cases to help funding activities with innovation and social investors

I'm a Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. My main research topics in this position are: Methods to assess Vulnerability and Climate Change Preparedness for infrastructure and health systems at a city or regional level, methods for optimizing industrial and commercial operations to reduce costs and reduce their environmental impacts, detailed methods for Life Cycle Assessment of sustainable operations and its relationship to human health benefits, monetization of human health benefits from sustainable practices and research on new clean technologies for waste water treatment and energy generation.

I’m Director of the Sustainable Technologies and Health Program within the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Our goal is to help generate well-paid, high-tech jobs to reduce unemployment among talented young people, while also supporting local socioeconomic development and global sustainability. To this end, we:•Support investors in managing risk effectively so they may finance startups related to medicine, environmental protection, and clean technologies, while also increasing their chances of maximizing economic and social returns when compared to “conventional” investments.•Help communities assess the maturity of their innovation and sustainability ecosystems in order to identify areas of opportunity for development. This process determines the most effective public policies and incentives to foster the development of high-tech startups.•Train business professionals working in governments, corporations, financial institutions, business incubators, and business accelerators in identifying and assessing the sustainability potential and the multiplier effect of any business idea.•Assist in transferring knowledge, technologies, and the best global sustainability practices to decrease regional vulnerability and increase resiliency to climate change and extreme weather events such as hurricanes, flooding, and drought. This process can create new business opportunities and improve competitiveness for sustainable and technological startups.

I'm Director of Corporate Outreach and Strategy at the Center for Health and the Global Environment in the Harvard School of Public Health. In this role I analyze the best ways to harmonize common strategies to enhance collaborations between 3 of the Center's Initiatives related to Sustainable Tourism, Corporate Sustainability and Executive Education in Renewable Energies. I also retain my position as Research Associate at the Center My main research topics in this position are: Methods to assess Vulnerability and Climate Change Preparedness for infrastructure and health systems at a city or regional level, methods for optimizing industrial and commercial operations to reduce costs and reduce their environmental impacts, detailed methods for Life Cycle Assessment of sustainable operations and its relationship to human health benefits, monetization of human health benefits from sustainable practices, sustainable product design and research on new clean technologies for waste water treatment and energy generation

Managed several engineering departments simultaneously: New Product Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Test Engineering and Continuous Improvement Projects