The Eco Guide to Carrer That Make a Difference
ECO Guide to Careers that Make a Difference
Environmental Work for a Sustainable World
Subject: General Interest: Education and Careers
Binding: Paperback 7x9, 352 Pages
Publisher: Island Press
Pub. Date: 2004
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 1-55963-967-9
Status: In stock
Go to: www.islandpress.org/eco
or call 1-800-828-1302
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.
Read an excerpt from the Introduction to The ECO Guide. (.PDF, 664 kb)
THE ENVIRONMENTAL CAREERS ORGANIZATION is a national, nonprofit organization, with offices in Boston, San Francisco, and Seattle, devoted to protecting and enhancing the environment through the development of diverse leaders, the promotion of careers, and the inspiration of individual action.
What's Inside:
Sector by Sector Snapshot of Environmental Careers Today
Building Your Environmental Career
Ten Tips for the New Environmental Professional
Conversations with the Experts: Working the Issues
1 Agriculture and Food Security
Fred Kirschenmann, The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Iowa State University
2 Air Quality
Tom Cackette, California Air Resources Board
3 Architecture. Construction. and Design
William McDonough. McDonough + Partners
4 Biodiversity Loss and Species Extinction
Stuart Pimm. Nicolas School of the Environment, Duke University
5 Climate Change
Eileen Claussen, Pew Center for Global Climate Change
6 Coastal Environments and Oceans
Ellen Prager; Earth20cean, Inc
7 Economics
Michel Gelobter; Redefining Progress
8 Ecotourism
Martha Honey. The International Ecotourism Society
9 Energy
Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute
10 Environmental Education
Montague. The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation
11 Environmental Justice
Robert Bullard, Environmental Justice Resource Center. Clark Atlanta University
12 Fisheries
Carl Safina. The Blue Ocean Institute
13 Forestry
Franklin. College of Forest Resources. University of Washington
14 Freshwater Quality Use and Protection
Sandra Postel. Global Water Policy Project
15 Greening of Business
Stuart Hart. Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina
16 . Smart Growth
Don Chen, Smart Growth America
17 Solid Waste and Recycling
-Anne Tom, Primedia Business Magazines and Media
18 Sustainable Consumption
Betsy Taylor. Center for a New American Dream
19 Toxics and Human Health
Theodora Colborn, World Wildlife Fund
Posted on March 21, 2005