UW-River Falls

Green Careers and Entrepreneurship

The need and opportunity for our students and regional citizens to consider "green careers" has never been greater, and it will only grow. As government, commercial, and non-profit organizations evolve to adapt to the ecologic, social, and economic drivers of sustainability, they will increasingly seek employees with very strong sustainability-based knowledge, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. There is an especially strong need for entrepreneurially based individuals to develop locally owned product and service businesses that can contribute to and maximize the mutual benefits of locally adapted sustainable community development agendas. Entrepreneurial businesses supporting local and regional self-sufficiency in energy, food, water, shelter, clothing, and transportation will be especially successful.

UWRF Career Services

Green Career Central

The Clean Energy Economy (PDF)

Recent Articles

"Apply Yourself: How to find a green job"

"Great Work if You Can Get It"

"Green Collar Jobs Are Poised for Growth"

"Careers Within the Green Marketplace"

"Remake a Living: Hire Definition"

"5 Hot Jobs in a Sustainable Economy" (PDF)

"Remake a Living: The jobs, my friend, are blowin' in the wind"

"Homo Sociens and the New Ecological Growth Economy" (This article is licensed under a Creative Commons License for any reuse or distribution.)

"Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade"

Books

The Insider Guide to Green Careers from WetFeet

Presentations

Any use of any individual page and/or presentation as a whole, must include the copyright information. A significant number of the images and content are copyrighted and proprietary. In accessing these pages and presentations, you agree that they are made available for your personal, non-commercial use only. Unless you have Dr. Kelly D. Cain's prior written permission, you may not copy, broadcast, make available to the public, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way, the material (or any part of it) contained in these pages or presentations for any purpose whatsoever.

Career Planning & Adult Development Network - St. Paul, MN, 11/7/08 (PDF)