Clean & Green Continuing Education

NorQuest Continuing Education & Custom Training (CECT) offers a variety of environmental training and practical skills courses designed to help organizations, communities, and individuals reduce greenhouse gas emissions, manage waste effectively, improve energy efficiency, and start new businesses in the green economy.

Our Clean & Green courses enable corporations, communities, and individuals to navigate new green legislation, as well as expose learners to the many programs and initiatives available to help reduce their overall personal or corporate carbon footprint.

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Advance your career with training in environmental and business studies

The clean and green sector is important to communities across Canada as businesses and individuals work to make commitments to reduce their carbon footprint and improve energy efficiency. Our instructors and program officers work with businesses, learners, and municipalities around Alberta to promote sustainable growth habits and greener ways of living. Our program helps to create a clean and healthy environment by land, water, and air.

Our Clean & Green courses are designed to give you the skills and knowledge needed to:

develop sustainability in your business
set and achieve clean and green goals
fuel new business startup ideas
promote environmental stewardship

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Careers in Cannabis Training

Cannabis is a rapidly growing industry across Canada in need of skilled and knowledgeable staff who understand the plant, how it is produced, and the regulations governing the industry. Learners who earn a course certificate will not only be excellent candidates for job positions at licensed producers across the country, but will be better prepared to explore exciting career opportunities in cannabis and related industries as they continue to expand.

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Medical Cannabis Essentials for Health Professionals

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Industrial Hemp Program

The Industrial Hemp environmental training program at NorQuest gives you the practical skills needed to begin a successful career as an industrial hemp farmer, professional hemp processor, or hemp business entrepreneur.

Through a series of online courses taught by industry veterans such as process engineers, researchers, entrepreneurs, and farmers, you will learn about the industrial hemp industry and the information required to become an entrepreneur, develop a new product, or start farming.

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Lean Training

Running your organization and ensuring continuous growth and improvement of your business is vital to its long-term success. Through lean training, you can learn how to properly manage the growth and success of your organization without sacrificing performance quality, efficiency, or productivity.

NorQuest College offers a wide range of lean training options for a variety of levels and sectors, including for entry-level and corporate entities, and individual or group professional development.

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Business Plan and Pitch

This program is designed to help you understand what being an entrepreneur is all about, and to help you prepare to launch new ideas or re-launch your current one.

You'll learn what it means to be an entrepreneur and what your idea can look like, and develop business and marketing plans that you can take from this course and directly apply to your business.

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Lagoon Operator - XBUS 1750

Our unique Lagoon Specialist environmental studies course is designed to give you the skills needed to improve the efficiency of lagoons through new approaches, management plans, and the latest in groundbreaking lagoon water treatment technology.

Lagoons are a very important part of effective wastewater treatment, making them extremely valuable to the clean and green sectors.

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Custom training

We focus on the partnership. We want to support our client's success and prosperity. Whether we use our existing continuing education courses and build on that, or if we start from scratch, we will work with you to deliver results. We customize curriculum based on your business or organizational needs. Talk to us today.

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Save on the cost of training

Whether you are an individual or an organization looking for training for your staff, the Canada-Alberta Job Grant can help save on the costs. Many of our continuing education and custom training programs qualify for the grant. What does that mean? With the grant, you can save two-thirds of the costs.

For details on which courses and programs qualify, talk to one of our program officers.

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Contact Information

Phone:: 1.866.534.6480
Email:: continuingeducation@norquest.ca
Main Office:: 10230 108 Street NW
Room C100
Edmonton, AB Canada T5J 1L4

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