Clean & Green Continuing Education

NorQuest College 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. The Clean and Green courses enable corporations, communities, and individuals in navigating new green legislation, and exposes learners to the many programs and initiatives that are made available to 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 extremely important to communities across Canada as businesses and individuals work to make commitments in order 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 will help to create a clean and healthy environment by land, water and air.

The clean and green courses offered by NorQuest College are designed to give you the skills and knowledge needed to develop sustainability in your business, to set and achieve green and clean goals, fuel new business startup ideas, and train to employment and promote environmental stewardship.

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Energy Efficiency Program

The Energy Efficiency program is designed to give you the skills and knowledge needed to prepare for the Natural Resources Canada Foundational Level and Energy Advisor exams Successful complete this exam preparation courses to prepare for a rewarding career in energy efficiency.

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Industrial Hemp Program

The Industrial Hemp environmental training program at NorQuest College 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 that industrial hemp industry and the information required to become an entrepreneur, develop a new product, or start farming.

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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.

This course is broken into three segments, for a total of 21 hours of learning for each course. You'll look at what it means to be an entrepreneur, and what your business idea can look like. You'll develop business and marketing plans that you can take from this course and directly apply. You're going to be able to use and talk about financial reporting and your finances. You'll learn practical ways to research and study the market place, develop your business and marketing plan, and then roll it all into a useful business pitch that you can deliver.

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Wastewater

The Wastewater training is designed to give individuals and organizations the environmental industry training required to improve their wastewater treatment operations. Overseen by wastewater industry leaders from Alberta-based businesses, our training is relevant, practical, and needed.

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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, we start from scratch, we want to work with you to see 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 what 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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