For more than a decade, UC Berkeley Extension has been a leader in training accredited professionals to combat and mitigate environmental hazards from asbestos to radioactive hazardous waste. Extension also offers courses related to other environmental issues, such as regulating the quality of our drinking water and protecting our wetlands. New! Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Change presents sophisticated implementation techniques to enable sustainability coordinators, green-team staffers, and environmental health and safety staff to swiftly overcome psychological, technical, and financial barriers.
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New! Sustainability Leadership–Strategies and Paradigms explores the mindsets and challenges that leaders face today by having students develop a business case to determine if their own company is organized in a sustainable manner.
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Understanding Redevelopment: Project Adoption Through Implementation features case studies by experts and discusses the role of redevelopment in neighborhood stabilization, commercial revitalization, brownfields reclamation, and military base conversion.
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Wastewater Laws and Regulations describes the state's administrative framework for these regulations and examines the requirements that waste discharges must follow in order to be in compliance.
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Updated for 2008 Determining Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction is an intensive four-day course examines the application of the 1987 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetland Delineation methodology and subsequent agency guidelines used to delineate U.S. wetland boundaries to include the latest regional guidance supplement for the Arid West.
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Climate Change and Law AB 32: What It Means for You discusses requirements set forth in AB 32C and the statewide emission limits and enforceable standards to meet those limits.
(Under Development) Environmental Management and Sustainable Systems addresses urban sustainability issues in building/construction, energy management, and natural resource management. Please call (510) 642-4151 for more information.

Environmental Management in Business

Land Use Planning

Mold Management

Water & Natural Resources Management

Art & Design

Engineering

Landscape Architecture

California Water Management and Ecosystem Restoration (discontinued)

Environmental Management and Sustainable Systems
(under development)

Call for Instructors and Course Proposals

UC Berkeley Extension invites highly qualified instructors to submit course proposals to academic and professional departments within Extension. Areas of interest include LEED Certification Exam Preparation LEED Rating System Knowledge LEED Resources and Processes Benchmarking a Building's Energy Performance Appointments are by agreement for the length of the academic term. Send letters of interest, course proposals, and résumés or CVs to jobs@unex.berkeley.edu. Letters of reference are also accepted, if included with your submission; please refer to the University's statement on confidentiality found at http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. This call for instructors and course proposals will remain open indefinitely. The University of California Berkeley Extension is committed to diversity in its staff, faculty, and student body, and invites all qualified people to apply, including minorities and women, veterans and individuals with disabilities. AA/EEO.