This Course will help reduce Your carbon Foot Print through Green Strategies and The LEED rating system This course is to help you the craft worker understand how your daily activities can and will affect the environment you can learn how to reduce your carbon footprint. You will also learn how the buildings that you help construct affect the green environment and how to apply the principles of the green rating systems. Objective Describes the life cycle phase of a building and the impacts on the green environment over its life cycle. Identify green alternatives to conventional buildings practices and describe the pros and cons of those alternatives. Identify specific practices you can implement at work to improve your impacts on the green environment Describe the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)rating process. Identify construction activities that contribute to a project s LEED rating. Identify common construction pitfalls that may affect a project s LEED rating. In this lesson, the student will cover the history of Solar Energy Study the Photovoltaic cell (PV) Prepare the trainee for the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners(NABCEP) Certified PV Installer Exam. In this course, we will discuss Grid-tied and grid-interactive systems Battery types NEC Codes