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program would include an intentional delivery system that includes interaction, materials and input. • Plan and implement a continuing education course on sustainability for professionals whose practice affects local sustainability. Including: zoning officials, engineers and contractors, land surveyors, elected officials, etc. • Provide education on long term implications of economic decisions and present alternatives that support sustainability. Environmental Education The OEA prefers projects that build environmental education capacity to provide a level of understanding necessary for decision - making (i.e. the ability for a teacher to integrate pollution prevention, source reduction, reuse and recycling, and sustainable development curriculum into classrooms through K -12, to higher education levels or for trade groups to develop similar training). • Programs that result in increased community environmental awareness/knowledge and more effective community environmental education. • Development of performance packages that integrate environmental components into the State of Minnesota Graduation Standards. • Develop local or regional environmental education networks whose work may include a local environmental education needs assessment, a program to build capacity for environmental education efforts, and/or the creation of links with and between environmental resource professionals and local and community organizations, schools, or businesses. • Design and deliver environmental education per the Greenpri nt for the following audiences: consumers, business communities, citizen and youth groups, and religious groups. • Create, adapt and/or deliver environmental education or waste education programs for cross - cultural or under- represented audiences. • Conduct waste education programs on source reduction, local recycling and markets, special wastes or illegal dumping/buming. This may include development or adaptation of materials. Pollution Prevention and Recycling The OEA prefers projects that minimize toxicity, reduce materials used, encourage the reuse of materials or implement innovative recycling programs. • Develop and implement a corporate -wide, multi- facility program or a school district -wide program that reduces, reuses and recycles food waste. The project must include education of the users of the program. • Develop and implement a corporate -wide program or a school district -wide program that uses non - hazardous cleaners, paints, pesticides and other materials in building maintenance.