Measuring Sustainable Impact
ENVR-40015
Learn how to measure the impact of sustainability programs and create a plan for making changes for your business or organization. Students will learn how to set environmental baselines for energy, water, and waste to build a picture of an organization’s impact and set organizational goals. Measuring sustainability impacts is important when gaining organization-wide buy-in and understanding the stakeholders involved is an essential process in sustainability planning. During the course, students will learn about large organizations that have developed metrics, advanced methods to measure sustainability, strategically implemented sustainability plans, and the reporting processes involved. Get comfortable working with sustainability data and explore prevailing platforms and tools (standards, guidelines, analytic tools) and metrics for measuring sustainability performance. Assignments will give students the opportunity to use analytical skills critical to the sustainability profession.
Learning Objectives:
- Gain and understanding of the role of internal and external stakeholder engagement in sustainability, and its correlation to sustainability data collection and reporting.
- Learn the tools that facilitate tracking sustainability performance
- Understand how metrics are tracked
- Learn how to leverage technology to facilitate tracking
Course Information
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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All course materials are included unless otherwise stated.
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- No refunds after: 7/21/2025
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Renee Yarmy
Since 2003, Renée Yarmy has dedicated her career to sustainability, initially beginning her career in sustainable architecture and development, and now in an expanded role in climate action planning. She currently serves as the Program Director for Maritime Sustainable Development at the San Diego Unified Port District (Port of San Diego). She manages strategic initiatives in the areas of energy efficiency, renewable energy deployment, sustainable development practices and the overall management and monitoring of the District’s Climate Action Plan (CAP), implementation of the Maritime Clean Air Strategy (MCAS), and Green Port Program. She has experience in sustainable development, architecture, climate action planning and environmental planning.
Prior to joining the District, Yarmy served as a consultant to the District, the Port of Long Beach, the Port of Seattle and several federal, local and international government agencies. In these capacities, she developed a proven expertise in coordinating and managing sustainability, energy management, asset management and outreach programs. She has served on the board of directors for the American Planning Association – San Diego Section since 2010 and is responsible for educating professional planners on environmental and land use planning policies and emerging regulations. Yarmy has an established track record developing policies, guidance documents and implementation tools to meet agency-specific sustainability, climate planning, and outreach goals and objectives.
She holds a master's in sustainable development from UNSW Australia, a bachelor's in architecture from California State Polytechnic University-Pomona and is a LEED AP O+M.
