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Environmental Careers: Green Pathways to the Future

Environmental Careers: Green Pathways to the Future. Kevin Flint Environmental Science and Resource Management Oxnard College. 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,

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Environmental Careers: Green Pathways to the Future

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  1. Environmental Careers: Green Pathways to the Future Kevin Flint Environmental Science and Resource Management Oxnard College

  2. 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? Click for Career Locker Click for COIN

  3. Bureau of Labor StatisticsOccupational Handbook Click here for web page

  4. How can you find jobs in California? Ca Occupational Guide

  5. Where are the jobs in the environmental areas? Link to E Magazine Eco Jobs.com Environmental Career.com

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

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