What is a Green Career?

One that involves either reducing human environmental impact or promoting the environment’s restoration.

Working toward the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit)

A position that focuses primarily on environmentally responsible products or services, or any job in a green company or a green division of a company.

What is a Green Company?

Organizations or divisions that are proactively reducing humans' impact on the environment or promoting its

restoration Green Industry Company

Selling exclusively earth-friendly products or services

•Organic food/consumer products •Residential energy efficiency•Renewable energy •Green building •Recycling •Environmental cleanup •Socially responsible investing •Sustainable tourism •Environmental advocacy

Green Practices Company

•Green commitment in mission •Ambitious and measurable company-wide goals •Publically communicate their green goals and performance to their stakeholders •Already taken the actions necessary to green themselves

Green Career Opportunities

Green Globetrotters: Travel and Hospitality Sustainability

Stewards: Planning and Land Use

Complementary Care: Health and Medicine

Power Pushers: Energy and Renewables

Planet Protectors: Legal Careers

Green Geeks: Information Technology (IT)

Eco Educators: Green Learning

Better Builders: Design and Construction

Improving Industry: Corporate Social

Responsibility Organic Occupations: Food and

Farming

Pluses & Minuses

Rewarding Rapid industry growth Innovation Combine skills & values

Paper pusher Organizational resistance Changing roles Slow results

Green Engagement - NOW

Student Groups Campus Green Students for Ecological & Environmental Development (SEED) Green Cup College Union Sustainability Efforts Illinois Student Environmental Coalition

Local Activities/Events Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at NU (ISEN) Chicago Green Drinks

Professional Associations Chicagoland Environmental Network

Resume

Cover letters

Application Materials

Target to employer Highlight transferrable skills Demonstrate green commitment Articulate success

Target to employer Expand on green commitment – share your vision Articulate success and impact Demonstrate alignment w/ organization

Green Internship Resources

sustainlane.com

idealist.org

http://www.chicagoenvironment.org/

index.cfm

Green Internship Resources

http://www.greenfestivals.org/

www.northwestern.edu/careers, go to “Exclusive NU Resources”

(lower left hand side of page) and click on “Vault”

http://www.internships-usa.com/Click “The Internship Series on line”

username: internspassword: learn

The Big Green Internship BookInternships & Summer Jobs for the

Environment 2009

Green Internship Resources

ecojobs.com

sustainablebusiness.com

thescaorg.com

Questions

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