What types of environmental professions are hiring?
There are a few things in demand: 1. Conservation biology – This refers to “results-focused” biology. It’s biology that is focused not on answering questions about what is the problem, but on restoring nature, protecting habitats, and slowing down the rate of destruction. Look at the Society for Conservation Biology web site to learn more. There are opportunities for leading-edge conservation biologists throughout the governmental and conservation world, in the natural resource industry, in forestry companies, in electric utilities, agriculture, and the consulting firms that support them. 2. Industrial ecology – Industrial ecologists redesign systems and put new ones in place that achieve dramatic reductions (not just little ones) in emissions, the use of toxics, and other environmental damage. One way to think about it is that the field goes beyond compliance, but it also goes beyond pollution prevention and into dramatically new ways of looking at how we do things. 3. Almost anything
