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Environment Majors to get a Green Collared job
As demand for sustainability professionals grows, high-paying “green-collar” jobs are being created. This adds to the popularity of college degrees in environment related subjects. Colleges and universities are now offering a wider variety of green majors and specializations, leading to the problem for prospective students on how to choose the right environment friendly major. The most popular Green degrees are:
Sustainable architecture/sustainable design/sustainable environmental design
Usually a specialization of architectural schools and design departments.
Environmental/Sustainability Engineering
Usually a specialization of Engineering school with courses in chemistry, biology, math, general physics, thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
Resource and Environmental Planning
Seeks to integrate the disciplines of Urban planning, Environmental planning and Natural resource management
Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Courses in sustainable development, geography, environmental policies, ethics, ecology, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, economics, natural resources, sociology, anthropology
Environmental Health Sciences
Usually a specialization of public health department focusing on how environment influences human health and disease with courses in chemistry, toxicology, environmental microbiology, risk assessment and standard setting, and applied ecology.
Environmental Law
Broadly refers to a collection of state, federal and international laws intended to protect the environment from misuse, enact new environmental compliances and laws and to protect ecosystems, agriculture and biodiversity, represent clients regarding matters such as water law, climate change law and land management. Requires a law degree and an environmental law certificate (offered at many law schools)
Environmental Science and Sustainability
Curriculum covers a broad range of issues regarding protection of natural and man-made environments, human health.
Horticulture
Is a branch of agriculture concerned with gardening that generally deals with cultivation of fruits, nuts, berries, vegetables, flowers and trees. Involves creative breeding of plants to produce new varieties that are healthier, tastier, more resilient to weather and less susceptible to disease.
Marine Sciences
Covers various aspects of the marine environment, including and their habitats such as estuaries, salt marshes, barrier islands and open oceans. Masters students can specialize in marine biodiversity or marine science and conservation.
Renewable Energy
Includes wind, solar, geothermal and other less common forms of renewable energy. Sustainable Agriculture
Development of food production methods that are sustainable, protect the environment and avoid causing irreparable harm to soils and other natural systems. Subjects include biology, forestry, chemistry, soil science, animal science, government policies and regulations, small business management
Harvard University, USA
Stanford University, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
University of Oxford, UK
University of Cambridge, UK
Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands
ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Tsinghua University, China
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA
Imperial College London, UK
