Environmental Careers: Green Pathways to the Future

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Environmental Careers Green Pathways to the
Future
Kevin Flint Environmental Science and Resource
Management Oxnard College
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What are the parameter of your job?

• Do you want to work with people or things ( i.e.
  computers)?
• When do you want to work set hours, flexible
  hours,
• days, nights, weekends, be on call ?
• What skills and education are you willing to
  earn/learn?
• Where do you want to work California, anywhere
  in U.S., overseas?
• Do you want to be your own boss, have a boss, be
  boss of others?
• Do you want to work indoors, outdoors, or both?
• How much money do you want to earn?
• Do you want a salary or earn by the hour?
• What is the future demand for this job where you
  want to work?

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Click for COIN
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Bureau of Labor StatisticsOccupational Handbook
Click here for web page
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How can you find jobs in California?
Ca Occupational Guide
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Where are the jobs in the environmental areas?
Link to E Magazine
Eco Jobs.com
Environmental Career.com
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What are the high demand Green Careers?

• Agriculture or forestry supervisors
• Architects
• Construction managers
• Consultants set sustainability benchmarks
• Social responsibility officers meeting goals
• regarding sustainability
• 6. Database specialists track, analyze, and
  report
• 7. Engineers
• 8. Electricians
• 9. Scientific researchers
• 10.Transportation supervisors and dispatchers

Source U.S. New World Report
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Education Environmental Outdoor

• Traditional classroom
• Camps
• Parks, zoos, aquaria museums
• Field based Island Packers
• NGOs National Wildlife Federation

Click for North American Assn. for Environmental
Ed
Click for OutdoorEd.com
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Ecotourism Adventure Travel

• Tourism is the largest business sector in the
  world.
• Ecotourism is growing at three times the rate of
  the
• tourism sector itself

Click for International Ecotourism Society
Click for Center for Ecotourism
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Renewable Energy Energy Efficiency

• Development (engineering)
• Installation New construction and remodels
• Sales

Click for wind energy jobs
Click for solar energy jobs
Click for hydrogen energy jobs
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Land Use and Planning

• Rural or Urban
• Government or Private
• Design, Technical (GIS) or Management

Click for American Planning Assn.
Click for Architecture
Click for GIS field
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Living Resource Management

• Biodiversity conservation
• Fisheries
• Forestry
• Science, policy or regulation

Click for National Wildlife Federation
Click for Nature Conservancy
Click for Ca Dept Fish Game
Click for National Marine Fisheries
Click for Department of Interior
Click for Conservation International
Click for World Wildlife Fund
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Nonliving Resource Management Environmental
Engineering

• Pollution control land, air water
• Water delivery urban agriculture
• System Modeling weather, climate, currents

Click for Air Waste Management Association
Click for Environmental Engineering
Click for Ventura Regional Sanitation District
Click for Metropolitan Water District
Click for NOAA
Click for Ventura County Air Pollution Control
District
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Environmental Occupational Health

• Toxicology
• Epidemiology
• Risk Management

Click for Society of Toxicology
Click for Na. Institute of En Health -
Epidemiology
Click for Institute of Risk Management
Click for OSHA
Click for Dept Health Human Services
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Agriculture

• Plant and animal
• Land and aquatic
• Biotechnology
• Development, consultation, management

Click for USAID
Click for Ca Dept of Food and Agriculture
Click for AgCareers.com
Click for Biotechnology Institute
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Environmental Law, Policy Regulation
Click for Environmental Law Institute
Click for World Resource Institute
Click for National Resource Defense Council
Click for Population Reference Bureau