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“Environmental Mega Trends” will help students understand how the environment impacts the world economy over long periods of time.  The course is based on lectures from leading innovators and provides a framework for budding entrepreneurs to think how they might develop a new, sustainable business.

The new EIE certificate program will be a great opportunity for students to gain basic business principles, says Jesko von Windheim, professor of the practice of environmental innovation and entrepreneurship.

“I would have loved to have that kind of experience early on in my career, to be able to see how people who have started companies, what are they actually doing,” von Windheim says.  “Even if you do an MBA, someone can teach you all day long about finance, and you can read about marketing in a book, but actually doing it is very, very different…Students will get a real sense of ‘hey, if I wanted to go out and do this on my own, if I had a little company, how would I actually execute this’.”

Students interested in the new Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate should sign up now for Environmental Megatrends (ENVIRON 762; 1.5 units).

The EIE certificate includes additional courses in the fields of entrepreneurial practice, marketing, and finance.

If you would like to sign up for Environmental Mega Trends, pick up a Course Add form from outside the Office of Academic and Enrollment Services in the LSRC and get the instructor’s signature (Martin Doyle,professor of river science and policy, in LSRC 317A) before returning the form.

To learn more about the EIE certificate program, click here >

In addition to directing the new EIE certificate program, von Windheim also serves director of the Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at 51����’s Nicholas School of the Environment