How can you make a real difference in the world and make a good living at the same time? The ECO Guide to Careers That Make a Difference: Environmental Work for a Sustainable World provides the answer. Developed by The Environmental Careers Organization (ECO, the creators of the popular Complete Guide to Environmental Careers), this new volume is unlike any careers book you've seen before. Reaching far beyond job titles and resume tips, The ECO Guide immerses you in the strategies and tactics that leading edge professionals are using to tackle pressing problems and create innovative solutions. To bring you definitive information from the real world of environmental problem-solving, The ECO Guide has engaged some of the nation's most respected experts to explain the issues and describe what's being done about them today. You'll explore: Global climate change with Eileen Claussen, Pew Center for Global Climate Change; Biodiversity loss with Stuart Pimm, Nicholas School for the Environment at Duke University; Green Business with Stuart Hart, Kenan-Flager Business School at University of North Carolina; Ecotourism with Martha Honey, The International Ecotourism Society; Environmental Justice with Robert Bullard, Environmental Justice Center at Clark Atlanta University; Alternative Energy with Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute; Water Quality with Sandra Postel, Global Water Policy Project; Green Architecture with William McDonough, McDonough + Partners; and twelve other critical issues. To demonstrate even more clearly what eco-work feels like on the ground, The ECO Guide offers vivid "Career Snapshots" of selected employers and the professionals that work there. You'll visit government agencies like the USDA Forest Service, nonprofit organizations like Conservation International and Project Wild, and local advocates like Alternatives for Community and Environment. You'll go inside environmental businesses like Wildland Adventures and Stonyfield Farms. And you'll learn from academic institutions like the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics. ECO also identifies and describes forty specific jobs that are representative of environmental career opportunities in the twenty-first century. It provides dozens of the best Internet resources. And most importantly, The ECO Guide offers all of the insight about current trends you expect from ECO, the acknowledged leaders in environmental career information.

ECO Guide immerses you in the strategies and tactics that leading edge professionals are using to tackle pressing problems and create innovative solutions.

Immersing readers in the real world of environmental problem-solving while engaging some of the nation's most respected experts to explain the issues, this resource identifies specific environmental career opportunities and offers insight about current trends.

Updated to reflect ongoing changes in environmental fields, this text is a resource for anyone seeking information about environmental career opportunities and how to get started in one. Highlights include trends in employment opportunities and additional material on careers in the energy field.

Sustainable Jobs is chock full of practical tools to rapidly accelerate your job search. It includes tips and suggestions from 26 of the top Sustainability Masters in this space. This book includes: How to Start Your Search, Nailing Your Elevator Pitch, Tailoring Your Resume, Personal Branding and Network Building, Interviewing Ins & Outs, Top Job Sites, Where to Look and Worksheets to Get you Started Today!

Presents information needed to learn about the careers available in the environmental field.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to have both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society. Containing career advice of great value to students of sustainability, and explaining how they can apply their knowledge to their future careers, its appeal extends well beyond the classroom. Sustainability at Work includes an easy-to-follow framework that anyone wondering how they can make a sustainable difference in the workplace can apply. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds and territories explain how they brought a sustainability approach to various sectors: agriculture, health care, business, economics, and financial services, education and research, law and policy, science and technology, and entertainment and media. Through inspiring narratives and a structured framework, Sustainability at Work illustrates how sustainability can be incorporated into every imaginable career to impact the quadruple bottom line: environment, economy, society, and future generations.

(ages 13 and up) This inspiring guide to green careers includes profiles of 30 young professionals who have found success in environmental careers. Along with the fascinating interviews, readers will discover interesting eco - tidbits, career - planning resources, and useful information about universities and environmental organizations. Now more than ever, teens need to hear a positive message about the economy, and here it is: the eco - job market is BOOMING, big time, all over the world. There are jobs for conservation biologists. Jobs for wind turbine fabricators. Jobs for environmental engineers. Jobs for eco - activists. Jobs for green business experts. Jobs for oceanographers. Jobs for air quality specialists. Jobs for meteorologists. Jobs for eco - fashion designers. Jobs for organic chefs. Jobs for ... you get the picture! Now how about some incredible examples to get readers thinking about the possibilities? In this book, seasoned journalist and documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Power Scott, interviews 30 impassioned young people who love being a part of the environmental job market. Turning worm poop into multi - million - dollar empires. Flying airplanes through hurricanes. Using flowers and trees to brighten the lives of kids and ex - cons. Staring down grizzly bears in the Canadian Rockies. Saving chimps in Tanzania. And strutting their hip eco - friendly frocks on the streets of Hollywood. From the icebergs of the Arctic Ocean to the jungles of Africa, these bold eco - pioneers will show readers how to help save the planet ... and earn a paycheck at the same time.

The definitive guide for people wanting to make a positive difference in the world.