What are some of the top companies and agencies to work for in the field of ecological design?
Part of the educational experience is to learn about what the best companies are, where they are, and what they’re doing. Usually, a student will say to me, I want to live in the Northwest or the Bay Area or in Kansas – and, in each case, as a teacher I try to point them to a network that they can go to, one that has been built over many years by me and the other faculty at the school. It’s not a concrete guarantee of a job, but it does connect students to the players. Getting to know the professional community is part of the educational program. It’s really a personal choice of the students of the students where they want to work, and for what company, and the field is wide open because an education in ecological design will translate in almost any environmental discipline. For example, let’s say a student wants to join the state Department of Environmental Management; an education in ecological design gives them the intellectual tools to deal dynamically with pollution issues. What k
