The Instructor:
Sarah S. Brophy, LEED-AP, is consultant for museums, historic sites, zoos and gardens pursuing environmental sustainability in their buildings, operations and programming. She works with the Detroit Zoo, the Peoria Riverfront Museum, and Green Energy Design. She also teaches The Green Museum at The George Washington University Museum Studies Graduate Program. Currently she is a co-chair of the American Association of Museum’s Professional Interest Committee on Environmental Sustainability. Sarah is the co-author of The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Sustainability, and author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? She authored or co-authored chapters in four other textbooks including The Manual of Museum Planning, Third Edition, and Sustainable Museums: Strategies for the 21st Century. Her articles have appeared in the American Association of Museum’s Museum News and Museum magazines, The American Association of State and Local History’s History News, and The American Public Garden Association’s Public Garden. Sarah is bent on demonstrating that museums, zoos, gardens and aquariums should be leaders in modeling and promoting sustainable living and learning. Sarah Brophy runs bMuse a consultancy for museums that believes that the defining feature of museums is experiential learning – the pleasure, power and opportunity of it. Her work focuses on helping museums become sustainable through strategic grants development, cost-saving green buildings and behavior, and in mainstreaming actions that strengthen relevance and responsiveness to the audiences they serve.

MS265: The Green Museum: Introduction to Environmental Sustainability in Museums **NEW**               Course Description & Info     Instructor: Sarah S. Brophy               Student Login    Price: $475               Feb 4 - Mar 1, 2013     [Add to Cart]   [View Cart]