Green Careers

Your environment-related career will develop from the combination of your major, outside experiences and unique personal qualities. Take advantage of internships, volunteer opportunities, clubs, off-campus learning, and other activities to expand and deepen your environment-related experience.

• Agriculture
• Arts & humanities: Art, literature, philosophy, film/photography & psychology
• Built environment: Architecture, engineering & landscape architecture
• Business
• Earth systems & chemistry
• Education: Environmental, outdoor, & for sustainability
• Health & Medicine
• Law & justice
• Policy, planning & protection
• Writing: Nature writing, science writing & environmental communication
• Mega-Sites:Everything else!

Agriculture

• ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
• Sustainable Agriculture Network
• WWOOF: World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

Arts & Humanities

Art

• 18th and 19th Centuries - Landscape Paintings
• Trans-Century - Landscape Paintings
• 20th Century - Landscape Paintings
• "A Brief History of Nature and the American Consciousness," as illustrated by landscape art
• Why We Think Nature is Beautiful: Nature, Art and Science

  Literature

• ASLE - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
• Nature Writing (ENG 385, Virginia Commonwealth University)

  History

• American Society for Environmental History
• Evolution of the Conservation Movement (1850-1920)
• Nature Transformed: The Environment in American History

  Philosophy

• Eco-Ethics International Union
• Philosophy and the Environment
• The Center for Environmental Philosophy

  Photography & Filmmaking

• North American Nature Photography Association
• Outdoor Photographer
• Science and Natural History Filmmaking - Montana State University

  Psychology

• Eco psychology On-Line
• International Community for Eco psychology
• Wilderdom: A project in natural living and transformation

Built Environment: Architecture, Engineering, Landscape Architecture

• Design, construct & renovate for high performance - US DOE - EERE Building Technologies
• Architecture - articles from Architecture Weekly
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - US DOE
• Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits
• Green Engineering
• Sustainable Urban Landscapes (SULIS)
• Whole Building Design Guide - National Institute of Building Sciences, Washington, DC
  

Business

• Co-op America
• Fundraising & Philanthropy
• GreenBiz.com
• Green Business
• Green Marketing - AWEA
• Recycling Today - The Portal to the Recycling Industry
• SustainableBusiness.com
• SustainableMarketing.com
• Sustainable Tourism

Earth Systems & Chemistry

• Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment - US EPA
• Environmental Forensics
• Green Chemistry Network
• Green Chemistry - US EPA

Education

Environmental Education

• NAAEE - North American Association for Environmental Education
• National Association for Interpretation

  Outdoor Education

• American Camp Association
• American Mountain Guides Association
• Association for Experiential Education
• Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
• National Outdoor Leadership School
• OutdoorEd.com

Sustainability

• AASHE - Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
• Campus Ecology Program - National Wildlife Federation

Health & Medicine

• Center for Health, Environment and Justice - Falls Church, VA
• Environmental Health Project (USAID)
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences - Washington, DC
• Physicians for Social Responsibility - Washington, DC

Law & Justice

Law

• Environmental Law
• Center for International Environmental Law - Washington, DC
• Earth Justice - Regional office, Washington, DC
• Environmental Law Institute - Washington, DC

  Justice

• Community Coalition for Environmental Justice - Seattle, WA
• Earthrights International - Washington, DC
• Environmental Justice - US EPA, Washington, DC
• Not in My Backyard - US Commission on Civil Rights

Policy, Planning & Protection

International Environmental Policy

• Environmental Change and Security Program - Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC
• Institute for Environmental Security
• International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
• Natural Resources and International Conflict - Partnership Africa Canada

Regional Planning

• Environmental Planning - M-NCPPC
• Sustainable Communities Network
• Sustainable Development
• Urban and Regional Planning

  Environmental Protection

• MD Department of the Environment - Baltimore, MD
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources - Annapolis, MD
• US Department of Environmental Protection - Washington, DC

Nature Writing, Science Writing & Environmental Communication

• Environmental Communication
• Environmental Journalism
• Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature & Science Writing
• Literary Nonfiction on Place, Nature, and the Environment - AAUP
• Outdoor Writing
• Science Writing

Environmental Careers - Mega-Sites

• EnviroEducation.com - an alphabetical list of environmental careers
• Occupational Outlook Handbook - includes salary information