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careers, environmental studies

Careers for Environmental Types
Careers for Environmental Types & Others Who Respect the Earth

By Jane Kinney and Michael Fasulo

Published by VGM Career Horizons, a division of NTC Publishing Group, 1993.

Like the others in this extensive career guidance series, this is a small paperback, measuring 5.5" by 8.5". This one runs to 152 pages including the appendices, plus a brief foreword.

The chapter headings are:

1. Career Opportunities for the Ecologically Minded
   
2. Environmental Education
   
3. The Greening of Corporate America
   
4. Jobs in the Government: Federal, State, and Local
   
5. Environmental Entrepreneurs
   
6. Career Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector
   
7. Green Communication
   

The first chapter is really an introduction. The second is about ways of gaining an education suitable for environmental careers and issues to consider, with additional resources listed. The rest of the chapters are about types of jobs, specific organizations where one can work in the field, and issues related to getting a career started.

Opening the book at random, I'm on page 101, in the chapter titled "Career Opportunities in the Nonprofit Sector," looking at the heading, "Direct Action Organizations." Under this heading are Earth First!, The Sea Shepherd Conservancy, and The Rainforest Action Network. Each of these organizations gets a paragraph-long description, including the kind of work a person might find there, and contact information. Greenpeace isn't listed under this heading, but appears earlier in the chapter under the heading "National Environmental Organizations," though they have certainly done a lot of direct action over the years and as far as I know still do. I'm rather impressed that direct action organizations are included in the book; leaving them out would be a real omission but an unsurprising one.

This is a very helpful little book.