BUILT ENVIRONMENT - adopt built environment policies and practices to ensure college facilities are designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an ecological and resource-efficient manner;

CLEAN AND GREEN CAMPUS - adopt policies and practices that meet "clean and green" and "green certified' standards such as using environmentally preferable cleaning products/practices, conserving water, composting, implementing pollution prevention measures, and reducing the amount and/or toxicity of materials entering the waste stream prior to recycling or disposal through waste prevention practices such as electronic work processes, buying products with less packaging, purchasing remanufactured products, and buying copiers that print double-sided.

GREEN EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS - integrate green course content and curriculum in all certificate and degree programs and creating new training/education programs for high growth, high-demand, and emerging green-related industries and occupations; and

PUBLIC AWARENESS - implement activities that increase public/community awareness and participation in green activities. Los Angeles Trade-Technical College enrolls approximately 25,000 students each year. By integrating green-related content in a majority of courses and programs, within 4 years nearly over 100,000 people would be exposed to environmental issues and green policies and practices which could significantly impact their environmental opinions and actions and in turn increase the expansion of the green economy.